Satisfactory - it's not the most inspiring word, especially when you've spent several hours planning a lesson. It's a bit like the girl of your dreams telling you that you're a nice guy, but 'let's just be friends'.

I do wish the teaching unions would step in and force a change in the grading system for lesson observations. Being satisfactory isn't exactly a bad thing, but it conjours up thoughts of just making it, scraping through. I think 'okay' would sound nicer, or if we were Australian: 'jake' - it'd be refreshing to see an OFSTED report describing a school as jake with several fair-dinkum features. Perhaps outstanding could be changed to 'the shizzel' or inadequate replaced by 'Leeds United'. It'd brighten things up a bit.