2024

 Happy New Year!

Just like they do every year, the holidays have gone by to quick and fast. I am feeling very refreshed and relaxed after a very lazy few weeks. Lovely to catch up with my daughter and have her home for a few days. Also all her friends came over for a yearly catch up and school reunion. A very fun night had by them all just like they did when they were tenagers. Liam, my son, is still on crutches and will be for another 4-5 months. Good news: the bone grafts are growing. He is off for another operation on the 25/1/2024 for more bone grafts being added to the hip. Bill, my partner is also back to work today and he also saw his heart specialist last week and got a good report. So all are healthy for the start of the year.

Had a great Christmas at the Fairburns hall with all the Whanau a great catch up in the pouring down rain and hot humid weather. 

This year my exciting adventures are having a new school starting, Pukenui which I am looking forward to. Being on the trial for the maths Intensive Program. Also the countdown is on for ISTE in Denver USA 22 weeks and 4 days till we fly out. I have got my ESTA visa waiver and got some travel items in the boxing down sales. I am so looking forward to the adventure. 

Back to work today, emails all checked and to do list has been written. Booked into a couple of webinars, google back to school, Apple back to school, Australian Virtual Maths summit and Formative assessment.

I have been looking at all the AI tools and what could be useful for our teachers and myself. I just completed the level 1 and 2 course for Magic school and looking forward to exploring this tool and may complete a toolkit on it.