Week 19

Spent most of the week in Auckland taking part in curriculum days taken by Core Education. The days are designed to help us when we go back to school next year by focussing on the curriculum. It was agood time to have the days because we have been so involved with science that we had lots of experiences to draw on and because it does make us think about next year. In lots of ways it is a nice culmination of all the work we have been doing. Our presenters Dale and Brigette are both excellent value and they complement each other and work well together. We had a lot of hands on activities to balance out the times when we had to do a lot of thinking. One of the highlights was going to Kelly Tarltons for an educational trip. We got to go behind the scenes a little bit and see a couple of turtles that had washed up on New Zealand beaches. They are being nursed back to health.

The other good thing about the week was getting together with the other teacher fellows. We get on easily as a group and we must have all been good because secret Santa visited us all when we went out to dinner. For the out of Aucklanders we got to eat out each night, Malaysian, Thai, and Italian. All very nice. We were lucky someone knew there way around Auckland and places to eat.