It's the last week of term!! *happy dance*
There aren't any lessons happening this week, so it's time to get everything put away and make sure the labs are clean and tidy. They won't be by the time we get back in september mind you, because we're having interactive white boards installed over the holidays, but at least I can say I tried!
Monday 27 June 2011
Friday 24 June 2011
Wednesday 22 June 2011
Timetable
Just been going through the current draft of the Physics timetable for September and oh boy am I going to be busy! This year I have had a couple of days (notably thursdays) with not much going on which has enabled me to catch up on things like equipment repairs. No such luck next year though. Every day is busy, with anywhere from 11 to 17(!) lessons to prep. Obviously some of that will be theory, but it's still way more than this year.
As mentioned before, we have 3 non-specialists teaching Physics next year, and their lessons are all over the place. I've got stuff happening on all 3 floors of the science block at times! Thankfully they're usually pretty good about room swaps so I shouldn't have to carry too much large/heavy kit up all those stairs. My arm is still not recovered from when I dislocated my elbow, and heavy lifting is no fun! At least all my lessons are going to be in the science block - I haven't seen the Chemistry room allocations, but Biology have a few lessons in far-flung corners of the school.
On the subject of Biology, we interviewed 3 potential new technicians last week. I gave them a bit of a guided tour of science and filled them in on the stuff that HR didn't tell them. Haven't heard yet whether we've appointed or not. It'd be nice to know before the end of term (not long to go now!).
As mentioned before, we have 3 non-specialists teaching Physics next year, and their lessons are all over the place. I've got stuff happening on all 3 floors of the science block at times! Thankfully they're usually pretty good about room swaps so I shouldn't have to carry too much large/heavy kit up all those stairs. My arm is still not recovered from when I dislocated my elbow, and heavy lifting is no fun! At least all my lessons are going to be in the science block - I haven't seen the Chemistry room allocations, but Biology have a few lessons in far-flung corners of the school.
On the subject of Biology, we interviewed 3 potential new technicians last week. I gave them a bit of a guided tour of science and filled them in on the stuff that HR didn't tell them. Haven't heard yet whether we've appointed or not. It'd be nice to know before the end of term (not long to go now!).
Tuesday 14 June 2011
I love a freebie!
Friday 10 June 2011
Wednesday 8 June 2011
Planning ahead
It's getting close to the end of the academic year now, so we're into planning mode for next year. We decided to get the books ordered good and early in case anything was out of stock and they arrived yesterday:
The 6th form AS and IB books we ordered based on numbers we were given a month or so back, but latest figures are in and we seem to have under ordered! For the first time ever there are going to be more lower 6th students studying physics than either biology or chemistry - 47 compared to 42 and 41 respectively. That's 25 new AS students and 22 for IB.
Obviously all the extra stuff we do (vatican, CERN, observatory etc) has raised the profile of the physics department and everyone wants to be involved. All I can say is WOOHOO!! It's going to mean more work for everyone but it should be a lot of fun.
Monday 6 June 2011
A cunning plan
Back to work after a week off for half term, and only 4 weeks til the summer holidays so we're not exactly complaining!
Just got an e-mail from the powers that be setting out the master plan for changes happening in the science block and after all that, they're not touching the prep room! Needless to say I am very pleased about that. HoD is now going to have office space in our project lab/store room which I cleared a lot of junk from before half term, and his office and the corridor next to it is becoming a new staff work room.
It's going to be a nuisance trying to get any of my holiday work done with all the building work happening, but in the long run I think this might actually work out.
Just got an e-mail from the powers that be setting out the master plan for changes happening in the science block and after all that, they're not touching the prep room! Needless to say I am very pleased about that. HoD is now going to have office space in our project lab/store room which I cleared a lot of junk from before half term, and his office and the corridor next to it is becoming a new staff work room.
It's going to be a nuisance trying to get any of my holiday work done with all the building work happening, but in the long run I think this might actually work out.
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