Reserved seats on the flight. Two sets of two seats next to each other.Then after I’d done that. I realised it says a and c. I teach 5 year olds so I m let those are not consecutive letters. But apparently they are consecutive seats.
PROJECT HAIL MARY Trailer (2025) YouTube
Excited to see that, though it makes me want to read the book again.
Why carry one device when you can carry 4!
9pm to 5:30am
Maybe today will the day I finally do the thing I’ve been saying will.
Need a snack? Muji in China has got you covered!
Ruck to the park. Do some pull ups and dips. Ruck home. Getting something in before work as am planning to have a beer after work.
I love his writing. It bounces around a little between present and past but the ending was fun.
Finished reading: Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway 📚
Y’s “tower of rainbows”
I’ve always wanted a dog but not with our current arrangement. Today, had fun with this little car while the kids did archery.
We had the magnetic letters out this week. This one is true, sometimes.
‘Scuse the lighting. I’m end of term tired. But also, want to appreciate these last couple of weeks with our class and colleagues who are leaving. A difficult balancing out.
I think like the job of being a teacher is just this incredible sense of responsibility. You’re constantly putting yourself under this microscope of going, am I good enough? Do I deserve to be in charge of making decisions that will impact young lives for a long time, even if I didn’t intend it to? And so I think the least we can do is provide educators with a space where they feel trusted and cared for.
I keep wanting to write about this podcast episode because it’s stuck in my head.
The teacher asking “Am I good enough to shape these young lives?” is exactly the teacher we want in our schools.
It’s a discussion we have a lot, that we’re forever too busy to find the time to consider if what we’re doing is good enough. And it feels like schools are often saying that that what they want but, teacher’s don’t feel it.
And it’s not going to change. So we are forced to choose.
It’s “funny” how the talk of footballers and tennis players always being ask to do (play) more resonates as a teacher. That they consider it too much. Similar eh?
Do not like how similar the Coke bottles are now.
Mental health involves having feelings that are appropriate to a situation and having the coping skills to be able to manage those feelings. And the way kids develop coping skills is through practice. They need to feel sad, frustrated, and uncomfortable in order to learn to recognize and understand those feelings and to figure out what kinds of coping skills work for them.
This is me recognising that our team is pretty on top of things. This is also me acknowledging that I don’t need to keep trying to find things to do in order to feel I’m enough.
screens aren’t inherently harmful, but they can displace habits that matter — like sleep, exercise, and real conversations. And maybe that’s the takeaway: screens aren’t the problem. What they replace might be.
Are screens really that bad for children? – From experience to meaning…
Currently framing parenting as preparing for the apocalypse. Yesterday archery and shooting (air rifle at balloons). Today swimming. I think I need to stop thinking about The Last Of Us.
Huh. Like this idea
What a Principal Learned from Shadowing His Students (Alex Shultz)
No Self
“I tell myself there is
no self- I am just
a place where the
universe happens to be happening
telling itself through me.”
– John Brehm
When you deliberately put a book down, because the sooner you finish it, the sooner it’ll be over… But can’t stop picking it up.
Also, books where the story is kind of secondary to the world the author has created.