In October, an ISTE group came to visit Debney Meadows PS as part of their Australia tour, whilst also attending the ACEC2012 Conference in Perth. We were lucky to have the group visit us at school and allow our children to showcase their learning so enthusiastically. Ellen, Director of Technology at The Cathedral School, one [...]
Continue Reading Add comment January 5, 2013
Each year I stop to reflect on the year that’s been. This year has been one of finishing and consolidating. It’s quite a different feel to what I have felt in my other recent years. Its calmer, quieter and not as hectic. Or is that just because I’m getting older, my children have grown up, [...]
Continue Reading Add comment December 31, 2012
It’s Friday night. Another busy week has just passed. A school council meeting, a trip down to the year 5/6 camp at Cottage by the Sea, a careers excursion to the costume department at the Arts Centre, a research circle for Play for Life and preparation for a local community festival this Sunday. This is [...]
Continue Reading 2 comments August 31, 2012
It’s been nearly a decade since I first started exploring the importance of emotions in teaching and learning. For me there have been mixed messages. That students need to be resilient, that teachers and leaders need to keep calm at all times, that teachers are too emotional and that is why we are not a [...]
Continue Reading 1 comment February 11, 2012
2012 was described to me as being a year of good luck. My school council president is Timorese and he told me that it was going to be the Year of the Dragon. This apparently brings good luck, but as I have also researched possibilities of a wild and exciting year too. For me personally, [...]
Continue Reading 2 comments January 1, 2012
I’m not sure if it is just me, or if it something that other people are noticing now too. Sometime ago for me, early 2000s, we were exploring how children learn, pushing the boundaries about the way we teach and taking note of theories of learning. We probed children’s thinking, questioned them for understanding and [...]
Continue Reading Add comment September 18, 2011
Hello! I’m back. It’s been an exciting couple of months for me but unfortunately I have not been able to add to my blog. Whilst completing my first semester of my Masters of School Leadership and doing my day to day job of AP, I decided to apply for a principal position. To say I [...]
Continue Reading 4 comments July 31, 2011
This year is going to be big! But then I think each year has been like that for me. I like to learn, to be better and to achieve. As a kid this never came easy. School wasn’t hard but it certainly wasn’t easy either. I would spend a lot of time on tasks that [...]
Continue Reading 2 comments March 14, 2011
Over the last few years much of my reading and learning has been around leadership, in one form or another. At times it has been about leadership of ICT, pedagogy and learning environments, but on the whole it has been about leadership of a learning culture. Last year I participated in the Eleanor Davis School [...]
Continue Reading Add comment February 13, 2011
I have started reading Data Wise, a Step-by-Step Guide to Using assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning. I have skimmed through in the past and been handed a photocopy of Chapter 4 to read but have now taken the time to read through in a more reflective and thoughtful manner. Holidays are a good [...]
Continue Reading 2 comments December 30, 2010
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