In the classroom

The other day I taught a lesson about simple division and factors to a class of year 5/6s. It wasn't particularly noteworthy, no firewor...

One of my young people has been struggling at school lately. Not with the academic content so much as the 'other stuff'.  We've ...

Today I had the privilege of accompanying 18 of our senior students to a GRIP Leadership Conference .  These 18 students represent our thre...

Today I heard something that made my heart sing. I had asked the kiddos to get out their writing books because we were going to do a quick w...

Sometimes teaching is hard work. Not unpleasant, just hard. I'm finding this week hard. I'm tired, the kids are tired. Routines and ...

We're well and truly into the second week of our term 3 holidays now, and I'm finally starting to feel rested.  I've spent time ...

The students in my class are on the precipice of - or have already plunged right into - adolescence. It's a challenging time. For everyo...

Wasn't she beautiful? 'Penny' So. About five minutes after I posted my last entry my children discovered that one of our pre...