By Wow. What a Feeling!!!
Anyone else feel happy, excited, exhausted, amazed, honoured, overwhelmed, surprised, exhilarated - and overall just looking forward to your next session??! A few weeks ago was my “first day at school” at school for the season. Having been through the program last year, I was sure this was going to be a breeze… Last year I did an extracurricular program. We started with an overwhelming 26 students and 7 team across year 10, 11 and 12. The attendance soon whittled down as people got busy with other things, but we had 3 solid teams that completed and the most successful one winning a prize at the Gala Night. This year, I am mentoring 3 classes and they are all very different... A class of Year 9 fledglings just ...
By The High School Classroom Pivot By Lainey Weiser, Just Start IT Ltd Program Leader
When I graduated from high school I had no idea what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. I just knew that I had so much energy to give, but didn’t know where to place it. I look around at students graduating from secondary schools today, and see that many mirror my own experience. I was lucky though. I had a father who kicked me out of bed and demanded that I get a job. I got even luckier as I landed up working for an incredibly inspiring woman, who mentored me for the ten years I was with her. But for many, their gap year, leads to further indecision, leads to wasted enrolments, leads to rising numbers ...Where Have All the Girls Gone?
“Don’t ever get discouraged by someone telling you that you can’t do something or that you won’t be as good at something as other people. No-one else knows what you are capable of.” Michelle Sandford
For a long time we have been dressing our daughters in pink frilly dresses and telling them to be quiet, play gently and not get messy. We expect our boys to do better in science, technology and maths, and our girls ...