So.....  It's been a while between blog post and, as always, a lot of water has gone under the bridge since I last wrote.

The short story is that I switched schools (again!) mid way through last year to take on an Acting Assistant Principal role and at the beginning of term 2 this year, I was successful in obtaining the substantive role.

The question I have been asked the most often is along the lines of if I like the change; if I prefer one role over the other or if I miss the classroom. I find this a really difficult question to answer as the work and the role is so different.

I brainstormed all of the items I would like in my ideal learning space.

So, in no particular order...

From the age of about six, I knew that I wanted to be a teacher. I would 'play school' at any opportunity. I would mark my pretend roll, write up 'work' on my little chalkboard with my toys or any friends being my students. I would mark their work with red ticks and crosses and write encouraging words of feedback on their sheets.

Thanks to the wonderful world of twitter, I was made aware of a great free online resource the other day called minutes.io  that I thought would be a great resource for student councils to be aware of.

This site allows you to generate minutes from a meeting using an online template.After entering the headings you then need to enter the details of those present. Minute.io allows for sub-headings and topics down the side and breaks these into categories of TODO, OKAY, INFO, and IDEA.

Writing this post reminded me of the song "Pub with no beer". Think of a pub and you think of beer, think of a bakery and you think of bread, think of a school and I'm sure a few people would mention bell as their answer.

Yet, my school has decided to abandon the school bell to signify periods throughout the day.