Mary's Ireland (ePub)

I am a retired Primary School Teacher and Principal. Whilst I began teaching in 1972 in the New South Wales government system, the majority of my teaching and my school Principalships have been with the ACT Department of Education. I was a Principal for nineteen years and previously a curriculum consultant in social science with the department. Currently I work 'very' part-time as the Executive Officer of the ACT Principals Association.

My wife and I raised three sons in the ACT region beginning in the rural town of Gundaroo initially at the former 'Prickle Farm' of Mike Hayes fame and then onto a 45 acre bush block of gum trees, kangaroos, birds, dams and acres of fun, family and friends. We returned to suburban Canberra giving the boys their early adulthood in this unique and wonderful city. With the boys now not at home, Toni and I now have much time to travel, garden, surf 'down the coast', walk and to enjoy our now larger family including three grandchildren.

Although born in Macksville, the home of cricketer Phil Hughes and VC and BP Pick-a-Box winner Frank Partridge on the mid-North Coast New South Wales, my schooling was largely in Sydney. Childhood and teenage years were fun filled with life in a big family dabbling in schooling, rugby league, cricket, surfing and netball.
I was never a reader in my younger days. Reading was hard, slow and uninteresting...for me. Reading was never modelled to me, except for the Tele's racing form. It was simply part of school; even then it was only about passing or failing. The reading content of school was well beyond my experiences even as an older teenager. The content precluded my engagement.

Teaching, however taught me much about reading and writing. As a younger teacher, I became set on the challenge of bringing literacy to all children. Whilst engaged in curriculum consultancy work with the ACT Department of Education, I was immersed in the skills and knowledge of a host of brilliant English literacy

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