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Proposal for Scheduling – a call for research, experience and questions…
Image by M W from Pixabay Next year our Middle school schedule will change. Our Leadership team has done a very thorough job of research into scheduling; interviewing with other schools about what they do and Why they do it (and How they make it work); forming a working group to look at different angles; surveys to parents, teachers and students and meeting with scheduling guru’s and reading a lot of literature around what is best for kids and how we might make that work at our school. The knock-on effect for us in PE and Health in the MS is that we have some changes from our current model and we now…
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So long and thanks for the mornings….
Every school morning I have the pleasure of 10-15 minutes with my Grade 8 homeroom, I am also fortunate enough to teach them PE as well. I wanted to write an open letter to them, but figured it might be best to blog and share my experiences with them and their families this year. Dear G8HP students, As June rolls around and we begin to count down til Summer, I wanted to write to you and share some of my observations of you as a group and to celebrate you all and the work you have achieved as Grade 8 students. Leadership is a fickle beast and it can be…