"I'm so strong I could lift the sky!" - wonder of a 5 yo.

Hello and welcome to this, the first of (hopefully) many posts on my new blog solely dedicated to education in early childhood.

I am blogging from Victoria, Australia as we undergo an education overhaul of sorts. I have not been teaching for long and am excited by what the future holds for education in Australia and Internationally. Sir Ken Robinson's education revolution has been so widely referred to in recent times that I feel inspired to share stories from my own experiences that are imbued with the hope and optimism of a new teacher with fresh ideas. Having said this I have met some amazing teachers who have been working for years in the field and are an inspiration in the way they take new ideas and let them germinate in an existing program.

I hope that this blog will reflect a journey that all teachers take in some form over the next ten years as we re-address our own practices to re-discover what it means to teach and to learn.


I will leave you with this quote from one of the 5 year old children at my centre. We were discussing hope and strength at the table during lunch and he said:

" I am so strong I could lift the sky!"

Let's lift the sky on education so we can learn new ways of doing and being.