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Tuesdays that feel like Mondays

March 9th, 2010 · No Comments

Ah the long weekend that passed. I felt reluctant about getting up this morning. I got into work and had morning yard duty straight up. It was cold. I missed getting my new timetable and thinking I had a free as per my old timetable missed a class altogether. The students obviously kept themselves to […]

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Tags: exercise · health · school · students · study · work

Study… what was I thinking?

March 1st, 2010 · No Comments

I haven’t studied at Uni since the 90s. I just logged into the CSU site and that overwhelmed feeling is coming back to me. I’m not sure I really want to do this. Feels like I’m just about to go into labour with my second child and I’m remembering what it’s about and kicking myself. […]

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Tags: learn · study

Cybersmart

February 24th, 2010 · No Comments

Tomorrow I am going to a Cyberbullying course. We had a speaker talk to our year 7s and 10s yesterday and there was not much he spoke of that I wasn’t aware of. I have been attending these kinds of talks for a few years now. I want to keep up to date to keep […]

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Tags: online · students

Swimming Carnival

February 19th, 2010 · No Comments

Today we had the swimming carnival at school. I enjoyed it despite having to be at the pool a bit earlier than I like to start my day. As Gold house co-ordinator I must say the captains of my house are committed young people who participated fully all day. I enjoyed the company of the […]

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Tags: school · swimming

Drenched

February 4th, 2010 · No Comments

I got soaked walking from my office to my car after school today. I was saturated to the bone and the coolness of that has stayed with me all night. I have been super active and handled lots of tasks that I’ve been too hot and bothered to attend to all week. I was on bus […]

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Tags: Darin · daughter · gratitude · happiness

Last Teaching Day at Junior Campus

December 9th, 2009 · No Comments

The year 9s finished today and it went well enough. I start tomorrow working with the admin team at the new campus so I won’t be farewelling the rest of the school. It happened so quickly in the end. As it usually does in a big rush where only the important and urgent things got done. […]

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Tags: Darin · daughter · family · gripe · school · work

Weekly Blogging

December 8th, 2009 · No Comments

On the weekend I attended briefly (well for a 3rd of the prescribed time) our 25th ‘10 till 10′. This annual event has been going on since we left school. The committed have reunited at a local pub for a session lasting all day. Even though I have lived in this town for most of my […]

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Tags: blogging · friends · memories · relationships · school · students

Counting Down

November 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Yep, it’s less than a week until my birthday. I have revived my childhood habit of counting down the days. Well I’ve been doing it most of my life to be honest but I’ve just not been putting it out there (never had the internet then!). I know most people are counting down to Christmas, […]

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Tags: birthday · reflect

Next Year

November 21st, 2009 · 3 Comments

I am going to the senior campus of our school next year. I have known about it for a little while now and have been thinking about it. I am nervous for sure. I have reassured countless year 9s over the years about going to the ‘big’ school. This year I can actually share their […]

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Tags: learn · reflect · school · teaching · work

Pomegranate and Mosaic

November 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I had a browse through my wordpress stats the other day. I was surprised to find the most common search terms people used to find my blog were ‘pomegranate’ and ‘mosaic’. I used to be constantly looking at my stats. I had a couple of different places to go to measure and weigh up what […]

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Tags: blogging · reflect · school