Proof of the pudding

It is the eve of Term 3. All the students are back on campus (apart from those whose flights were cancelled) and lessons start again tomorrow morning. From 07.45 tomorrow morning (and for the rest of the term) in addition to my three Algebra 2 classes I will be teaching two Advanced Calculus classes, standing…

We have finished Term 2, except for finalisation of the marks for the term, which has to be completed by next Wednesday morning. Most of my time in the classroom has been spent preparing to teach Calculus next term, including preparing an Easter holiday revision pack for the 31 calculus students, who take their big…

I discover it is six weeks since I last wrote a blog post…. Things have a habit of getting busy around here. Here are some of the things which we have been getting up to. Robotics Competition February 3rd saw the 10 man robotics team, plus two mentors and two coaches, take the 90 minute…

Just a quick post today – we are firmly into Term 2 now, with the mid-term break coming up in a couple of weeks, but still plenty going on. Apart from classes, and regular weekly commitments of dorm cover and library duty, a couple of weeks ago I also ran another Wizard tournament with 20…

The Christmas Holidays are over, the start of the New Year has been celebrated and all the students have returned to school. Arrival day was 3rd January, and classes started on Thursday 4th January. It was actually quite nice only having two days of school before having a weekend break – enough time to remind…

Just a quick post to let you know that Lesley has already flown back to Germany for a few days, and I fly tomorrow to the UK to stay with my father. Lesley and the children will be joining me in early December for a long weekend of family festivities, including a trip to the…

We have just finished week 12 of term – one more week to go. This is the longest term of the year (term 2 is 12 weeks, term 3 only 11 weeks). Staff and students alike are beginning to tire, with quite a lot of illness going around. I have finished teaching all the material…

I have been back in the classroom for over a month, and things seem to be getting back to normal. I have learnt (almost) all the student’s names, and more importantly got to know their mathematical abilities. The last two weeks has been solving simultaneous equations, culminating in learning how to use their graphical calculators…

Surely Adam and Lesley were due to be back at school in Kenya in the second half of August… has Adam found the second year so demanding he has no time for blogging? Or perhaps they never reached Africa at all? In fact, we arrived back at RVA only on 19th September, a month later…