Category: February 2011
Generosity
The assembly theme at my school this week was generosity. Our principal gave a humorous talk about the need for generosity in our lives. It involved lollies (sweets) so not surprisingly the students were entertained and amused. The following day we, along with many other schools around Australia, held a special day. Some schools wore mufti, […]
Dealing with disapointment
It is Friday evening and I am feeling down and disappointed. You see, I applied to be part of the Google Teacher Academy that is coming to Sydney in April. And I, along with many other amazing educators was not successful. Now please don’t get me wrong, this post will not be a rant about […]
It was a good week.
It was exactly a year ago that I wrote these words. My classroom was designed and built around eight years ago. Oh good I hear you say, it must be nice and modern. Well to some degrees it is, except that the architect who no doubt was sitting in his air-conditioned office at the time assured ‘the […]
Persistance
I watched a really interesting documentary this week, ‘Life at Five’. which followed on from ‘Life at Three’ and ‘Life at One’. Incidentally I watched it on our i-pad using the ABC iview app and the program is still available if you are interested. Five years ago eleven Australian children were handpicked to follow on […]