Good to be back

The last two days at the Ministry of Education have been very valuable.  It's always good to spend time with like minded people discussing relevant topics.  With that in mind, I will be attending a three day course next week (Wed, Thur, Fri) with other teaching principals. This will help with areas such as getting the right balance of teaching and principalling and will be a good opportunity for me to compare our school and its current direction with other schools of a similar size and composition.

I'm pleased to say we had a successful fire drill today and everyone was out in a timely and orderly manner. It's always nice to know that we are prepared should a real event happen.

Not everything was as successful though, while skipping with some students at morning tea today I managed to drop my phone and break the glass on the back of it. That's what I get for not having the cover on it (Or maybe for not taking it out of my pocket before skipping!). It was much safer playing tag on the adventure playground, although there did seem to be a lot of people 'in' at times which made it difficult.

I would like to give a big thank you to David Templeman for not only the generous number of flowers donated to school today, but for the ongoing donation of flowers over the year. This is most appreciated and a great fundraiser for the school, not to mention very handy for grabbing flowers for my wife before I head home. I just hope no-one tells her what little effort I had to go to to get them.

On Monday at 5:15pm there is a parent information session in Kereru on hand held devices in the classroom.  We'll be talking about why we are introducing iPads and iPods into the classroom progamme and what it might look like.

Happy Mother's Day for Sunday! :-)