School Trip

Today @DianaWilkes @heathmc1 our Admin Ninja, Koral and I all got to go and check out Office Max. We were able to try out some of their furniture options and then were given a tour of the dispatch centre. Talk about teacher stationery heaven, oh for a free run of this place!

This is where the magic happens

They have an automated system which was incredible to watch - it felt a bit like being in a cross between the conveyor belt scene in Toy Story 3 and Charlie and Chocolate Factory.

The labels on boxes are scanned at various points on the line and exit the belt where the pickers select the items.

What I found to be really interesting, was that the pickers wear headsets which tell them which items need to be picked,  they then have to verbally respond before they get the next item. As part of the staff induction each picker has to create a 'voice response' template,  this can be in which ever language they choose, - a great example of personalising the work space.

I loved this machine - it creates paper tubes which are used to fill the empty spaces in the cartons - ever the junior teacher I want to see what kids would create with them. Our Admin Ninja has promised to save them from now on....

A paperless society - yeah right! This is but a small portion of the paper they supply.

Community Information Evening

Recently we held a  Community Information Evening
We used this evening to communicate with interested parents in our enrolment zone.
One of the activities we got the parents to do was to write down on templates the attributes they wanted for their children when they left Ormiston Primary.

We wrote down all their words and used them to create a 'wordle'. I must say there was a 'fist pump' moment when we realised what our most common word was.

10 weeks of Oresome

Doesn't time fly when you're having fun! First term done and dusted and day one of term two begins..

I have loved every minute of my time so far as the Associate Leader of Learning here at Ormiston Primary and have loved all the learning.

I found when I was first appointed it was like being inducted into some exclusive members only club, doors opened and many professional relationships where taken to the next level. I have been humbled by the huge amounts of support offered by the people who have travelled this journey before - everything from the sharing of resource lists, to offers of 'come and play at our place'. We do truly stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before.

Some things that have been challenging to deal with are; not having the amount of structure you are used to as a classroom teacher - every day is hugely different, from site meetings to eBOT to procuring resourcing to wonderings and ponderings of what the learning will look like at our place.
I've also been challenged by the seemingly moment to moment flicking from micro to macro - what staplers shall we order, what will our vision principles look like??

Every day is different and every day is #Oresome at Ormiston