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!).