My first day of work was reserved just for new teachers. Presentation after presentation occurred introducing key-staff members, an outline of the school, human resources information, training about insurance, simulation of putting out fires with fire extinguishers and meeting our direct bosses while receiving our timetables.
The next week was a week full of staff meetings. Some meetings were held with all 300+ teaching staff, other in divisions of 60+ people, others in year levels of 12 people. Some presentations were completely in Spanish, others in English. Some lasted an hour, others for a day. The time outside of scheduled meetings were left to set up the room for the year, so I spent that time balancing on chairs stapling wall displays, creating alphabet friezes and other displays as well as filling in the blanks of our timetable.
I am teaching Year 1. There are two teachers in the room, with 26 students. The subjects to be taught are English and Reading, Mathematics, Humanities, Science and IT, Physical Health and Well Being, while a subject teacher covers the class for PE, Religion, Art, Music and Spanish.
This week has been a full week with the kids. Just like all first-week-of schools, I have come home absolutely exhausted bordering on feeling ill. Nevertheless, I have loved working with young children, I am learning a lot and contributing a lot of ideas from my own experience that this school has never seen before.
As I am not sharing any sensitive information about work, unfortunately there are no pictures.
I've also bought a new phone on an 18 month plan - and I love it very much :)
So to compensate for the lack of school photos here is a picture of my wet birds from my new phone.
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