Back to school this week (yes, that’s why this blog has been quiet for 2 weeks) and the final term of 2016 is upon us. From a personal perspective, this is always the busiest of terms. Not only is there the usual day job of creating and delivering the Australian Curriculum to 30 amazing young people (a life consuming effort in itself), but we have so much more: there are the end of year reports to write; a year 6 leavers assembly to organise with speeches included; a year 6, end of school-life video to create and produce; end of year testing and assessments due (data, data, data); excursions, celebrations and events to organise. Ten weeks sounds like such a short time when I consider the things that have to be done, but I’m pretty sure that when the ten weeks are up it will seem like it’s been sooo much longer. Ah well, roll up the sleeves, take a deep breath in and…