Flying by

This week has flown by. The science department is always busy and industrious but seems even more so with the addition of two Newly Qualified Teachers which brings the number of staff in the department to nineteen.

Its changed out of all recognition since I started in 1987. I think at the time the school roll was under 800. There were around seven science teachers with two science technicians.Now the roll is around 1400 and there are seventeen science teachers in the department and still only two technicians.

I often quote the above figures in mitigation on the very rare occasions when something goes wrong, but more often than not I’m met with a blank stare. I would have thought that science teachers were quite good at maths, but hey, there you go.