Retirement

Retirement is the time for being irresponsible, employment wise. So today I resigned from one of my jobs, having decided that one commitment was enough. Linda took it quite calmly, just pointed that that she didn't know where on earth she would find another science teacher ( implication - you are better than nothing!). So we talked it out, looked at some possibliities, talked about Outreach in general and next year in particular. We talked about the fact that she is hoping to expand it to include Grade 10 and how to handle it. I suggested that for Grade 10 maybe just English and Maths would be enough but Linda thought that would be too limited and rather boring. What about offering Science, Biology and Geography once a month? Good idea - suddenly I was being offered and accepting a new job. Grade 10 - just one Saturday a month .
That will work out to about eight lessons during the course of the year. Don't even think about trying to cover the syllabus in eight lessons, so now my brain is ticking and the challenge is starting to grab me. Choose eight basic and important topics and plan a lesson around each of them. With St Mary's wonderful labs each can involve some hands on practical work, some calculations and anything else I can think of. It really could be lots of fun. So I'm now back with two jobs!!!