Final Days of Term

Last week of school, and I'm feeling pretty good. I went out running again after work tonight and though I've been feeling tired and cranky today I felt better for it. Made my circut longer, now 5kms. I need a fun run to be in at some stage.

Three more teaching days at school then we are OUT FOR THE HOLIDAYS! This term has been so BIG. We are just winding up some stuff, have a concert on wednesday and parent teacher interviews on thursday night. We are lucky to be back to the original way of conducting parent teacher interviews. At the start of the year the government tried to make us conduct them after school only. It meant that we could only have them when some parents are working and we had less time available. It just makes everything more difficult to be able to fit everyone in.

I've been feeling good about my classes lately. Had a VCE session that I feel I finally cracked the analysis exam. Its been mystifying me, so it is obviously outright confusing for the students.

The more I hear about provision the less I like it. We had a meeting today and it was confirmed that I need to have an average of 16 students to be able to run a class. The last three years of classes I have had about 12 combined. Which means that the likelyhood of keeping the unit 1 subject at MSC becomes very shaky. Obviously it wont be the best idea for us to lose our senior students but when you have people making the decisions that aren't even IN schools, that have nothing to do with the reality of teaching them and being their mentor. I also will most likely mean that I will, at some stage in the next few years, have no option BUT to teach outside my subject area. Because some years music gets a lot of students, others there are less that choose it. Teachers that teach classes like chemistry, maths, english, science wont have this worry. The hardest thing is that the students are not very well informed at this point. None of them know what to choose or whats even offered. We don't know what the other schools are doing. It's all still confusing. There will be more issues before this is all settled.