It is Batik day at school today, 2nd October 2009.

About a year ago we discovered that one of our American friends was (and still is lol) a fully trained and degree qualified health educator ...

Chelsea's class has just completed a term topic study on Antarctica. The kids were paired up and had to research four topic questions an...

Boys are different. As Ben gets older I am realising just how different they are from girls to parent. Last year Ben spent the last term in ...

I am a late starter to technology. I have only just got the hang of sms! I mentioned back in 2007 that I still got up and changed the CD in...

I mentioned back in November that we were starting class focus on the six seasons...yes there are six seasons, well at least if you are in ...

My little classroom is actually an annex/sun room at the end of the library. It is lovely spot, it feels very welcoming and relaxing. Instea...

I have done a very crazy thing.....in regards to my workload. We have signed up for Bahasa Indonesian lessons twice a week, a total of three...

We had our school sports day this week to coincide with the Olympics. The kids all had a fantastic time and I was on official photographer d...

I got into University!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I found an Australian uni that does an external degree in primary education and I start in August...

My focus for this school term has been short and long vowels. We have been doing a variety of crafts to match the English sounds to short vo...

We went to a great function last night at the British International School here in Jakarta. This would be the school I would send the kids t...

I do not think that there is worse job at school. Tuesday 10 to 10.30am is my slot. I was lucky(not!) enough to get the top playground as my...

I am searching uni sites at the moment to find a online/correspondence course in order to get my teaching degree (Bachelor of Education-prim...

I am having a super cranky week this week in regards to the agency handling the managing our home in Australia. I will give the owner a chan...

Wow, what a week or two! We arrived back in Jakarta late on Sunday night and I have been in a flurry of business ever since. I don't thi...

I love science...it was my best subject at school (I was Mrs Broughs FAVOURITE). GJ and I encourage the kids interest in all things...but wh...

Georgia's birthday dinner (not to be confused with THE PARTY, which will be after the holidays) The girls started doing gangster rappin...

The girls both choose Mad Science as an after school activity this term. This is an experiment that they made....gloop! Gloop went runny and...

Isn't she gorgeous.... Ballet in Jakarta is so different to what I remember from my years of study. I studied under a wonderful lady in ...