principal

I have been lucky enough to be the principal learner at Palmerston Primary School for the past 4yea terms Learning is a life long journey. As from thne beginning of Term 3, 2008 I will beginning another part of my journey - the next stop for me is will be Silverstream, Mosgiel.

I have loved my time at Palmerston with -123 great students, a team of 6 teachers, a guardian angel who is in our office, 4 supportive teachers aides, 2 energetic and motivating activities people who organise lunch time activities our cleaner, a groundsman and gardener, a hardworking Borad of Trustees and a great group of parents on our Home and School who raise money and involve families.

In my time at Palmersotn the highlights have included - being part of the APPLE project,building the developing wonderful tiled works of Art around the school From 2005-2007 our teachers and students have been part of an ICT group who have helped us learn lots about ways to use the fantastic technology that is around. Older people, like myself, are sometimes called 'digital immigrants' because we have to learn how to use these technologies. Younger people and our children are called 'digital natives' They seem to work with technology naturally. My 'accent' is definitely still obvious ... but I am understanding more about this new world of technology and hope to keep learning to 'fit in' more easlily to this landscape.

We are hoping to update this every month or so during the school year. We are keen for any feedback from visitors to our site too.

Our second term of 2008 has begun with two visitors from the Education Review Office (ERO).We have discovered that one of these people has written stories for children and the other used to be a presenter on Playschool. We have enjoyed their visits to all our classes, their chats with our staff, children and our Board of Trustees. For the next two weeks all the classes are lelarning about New Zealand authors. On Friday 16th May we will be dressing up as a favourite character. Look out for some photos soon.