When Punks Rule The Earth …

Well and truly into the year now and the general feeling of fatigue that always seems to roll with secondary teaching. Starting to see traction with the new courses and it feels very similar to the last time I built them up in a different school. The basics are the same I guess but the variables are always different and make life interesting. As always the young people are great fun to work with and some have really taken off with project-based learning.

With winter settling in there’s not a lot going on in the workshop but still a lot of projects in progress to keep my mind alive and moving. After recently purchasing a heat press at school I have been working on reforming the waste from the 3D printers into sheets for laser cutting. It has worked remarkably well and is another avenue for students to explore with me. Future plans involve adding a pot still of some sort to my distilling hobby and setting up a breeding tank to see if I can get tropical fish to reproduce. Solo board games have also appeared in my World and it’s been fun trying out some of the more interesting ones as a way to get off computers and away from the TV in the evenings.

Looking forward to seeing how the year progresses and whether things develop in a way that keeps teaching interesting enough to do it all again next year.