I’m so excited to announce that after a successful merit selection process, I have been appointed as the permanent Principal of Rooty Hill Public School !!! 🥳🥳🥳 And I couldn’t be happier !!! 🥳🥳🥳
#RootyHillROCKS
#FORWARD
🥳🥳🥳
Wife and I popped into school today to build the new staffroom lounges so we could surprise everyone tomorrow. Very happy with the finished result and I know our staff will appreciate this enhancement to their sanctuary. 🙌✨✨
Our newest outdoor space… Our very own Yarning Circle !!! Completed today, our students are in for a treat when they return next week. The perfect place to gather, learn, collaborate and yarn…. 🙌✨✨❤️
#RootyHillROCKS
@karls_85
@SuzanneBridge2
@LianneR34222848
I am excited to share that as the result of a recent EOI process, I will be taking on the role of relieving Principal at Rooty Hill Public School for Term 1, 2021 with the possibility of extension!!! 🙌✨✨ I’m really excited for this opportunity!!! 🙌✨✨
#sparkle
#newadventures
On the topic of Mandatory Training NSW school staff are required to complete… The list is getting quite extensive. 🥴🥴🥴 Well done
@karls_85
, our
@RootyHillPS
@canva
Queen for creating this one stop shop for our staff. Now to fit it into our schedule to minimise burden.
I’m on the third day of the school holidays and I think we are up to five (5) significant education announcements and counting !!! Rewarding Excellence, New Parent Engagement framework, Behaviour Experts, Teach in Australia & new PDP observation rules and online platform !!! 😳😳
Our new Attendance signage has been installed at all four pedestrian gates of our school. Fabulous idea from Belmont PS (thank you! ✨) which we Rooty Hillified. It was awesome to hear parents talking about their child’s attendance whilst waiting at afternoon pick up. 🤟✨✨
#win
I must say, my favourite part of today’s Welcome Back presentation was delivering Code of Conduct training. We watched a short clip from the movie ‘Matilda’ and were tasked with trying to ping the Trunchbull on as many areas of misconduct as possible. Was rather fun! 😂🙌✨
Spending my Saturday morning looking at staffing… 🥴🥴🥴 I still have several positions unfilled for 2022… 🥴🥴🥴 What I do currently have though are 65 staff employed and I am super appreciative for each and every one of them... 🌻🌻🌻
#teachershortage
I’m sorry but saying things like “It doesn’t matter about what the school and the classrooms looks like, it’s about the quality of the teaching that is taking place” will only get you so far. Come and have a tour of my 1950s build school and you’ll soon know why… 😳😳😒
#salty
As I walked to my car this afternoon at the conclusion of Term 1, a student who was in after school care calls out “Bye Mr Fisk. I’m going to miss you!” & then proceeds to start crying. Now that right there my friends is worth more than any prize or award.
#RootyHillROCKS
🙌✨❤️
Okay. So I know there are a few haters out there in Twitter land, but I can’t help but share this photo taken by
@k_rigas
(with
@jason_miezis
close by) during today’s visit to
@RootyHillPS
!!! I love our school, I love what we have achieved & I am excited about our future! 🙌✨❤️
I am in LOVE with our finalised Strategic Improvement Plan (SIP) Visualisation!!! Thank you
@thevisionhub
for taking on all the many revisions I provided, as well as embedding WWB 2020, to produce our very unique vision for the future!!! 🤩🤩🤩
#RootyHillROCKS
#FORWARD
🙌✨✨
BOOM !!! 💥💥💥 Accepted into
@hgse
The Principal’s Centre in Australia Program in January 2023 and today, landed a Scholarship !!! 🙌✨✨ A fabulous end to a rough week !!! 🙌✨✨ Looking forward to it !!! 🙌✨✨Who else is going?
Upon entering a classroom for a visit today...
Me: Ok. So does anyone know who I am?
Excited Student: Yes! I do! You’re Mr Fisk... Our REVEALING Principal...”
Me: (Fights back tears of laughter)
That’s going straight to the pool room...
#RootyHillRocks
#RHPSrocks
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Part 1: Today, I was awarded a Scholarship for School Leaders from
@NSWSLI
🥳 Part 2: This evening, I was offered a place into the Masters of Education program
@UOW
🥳🥳Part 3: Received 50% course credit towards degree due to completion of the
@nswppa
Credential program! 🥳🥳🥳
Today, an former student tracked me down via social media and took the time to share some of the most beautiful words I’ve read. This message brought me to tears almost instantly. One cannot underestimate the power of receiving appreciation from a past student. 🌱✨🪴✨🌻
NSW Teachers: What has been your biggest take away from Learning from Home 1.0 that you would avoid repeating in 2.0? Personally, I’ve left the fancy stuff behind & focused on the guts of what matters. It doesn’t have to be pretty, it just has to work FOR your community. 🙌✨
⭐️⭐️⭐️ What a show… and what a ‘fabuloUS’ finale for School Spectacular 2023 !!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ I may have got a tad excited when the drop came in during
@wearesheppard
’s song ‘Coming Home’ (as per video) 🥳✨✨
@TheArtsUnit
@NSWEducation
FabuloUS cameo by
@dizdarm
too! 😂
Tomorrow I begin a new adventure. New school, new people, new challenges and new triumphs await. Whilst I’ll miss
@QuakersEast
, I know there are great things to come at
@RootyHillPS
!!! 🙌✨✨ Have a wonderful Term 1 all and remember to spread that sparkle!!!
@NSWEducation
🙌✨✨
Other schools ban them, we choose to embrace them! 🙌✨✨ Our outstanding AP Special Education
@zoeetamara
has founded the
@RootyHillPS
Pokémon Card club as a targeted lunch time program for our students. I couldn’t be prouder of the culture created by all at our school! 🙌❤️
@aliceleung
Teaching any curriculum wholly and solely via Explicit teaching or Inquiry Based teaching is ridiculous. They can both be used, alongside many other teaching ideologies, at various times for various reasons. We take the best of all things to meet the needs of our students. 🤟✨✨
A classically delicious cultural experience occurred at lunch time today in our school staffroom with a pop up, help yourself Chip Butty station!!! 🍞🍟🧈🍞🍟🧈🍞🍟🧈
#CarbonCarb
#RootyHillROCKS
🙌✨✨🍟
Yep, absolutely! And scripts to follow as well. They don’t teach you this at uni. I always dreamed of teaching a final unit subject for graduating teachers - “Keeping it Real! What you REALLY need to know” !!! I think it would be a highly rated subject if I do say so myself! 😂🙌
Yesterday on his visit to
@RootyHillPS
,
@dizdarm
asked me how long I had been Principal. I didn’t realise that it was this time two years ago that I was able to inform my community that I’m staying for a long time! After relieving for 6 months, I fell in love with our school.❤️✨
Random thought: Anyone working in schools guilty of superhero syndrome? This ridiculous belief that you cannot have any time off work, for any reason, because things will go wrong, and the world will fall apart because of your absence. This says so much about school culture.
Rooty Hill PS is an outstanding school led by Scott Fisk. I visited Year 1 who were learning about shapes & Stage 2 were doing art. Finished with some playground duty with
@itsF1SKY
before speaking with staff to hear how I can support the important work delivered by our schools.
Managed to get our AP office fit out completed over the holidays !!! 🙌✨✨ It has come up beautifully !!! 🙌✨✨ This is an excellent space our AP Team can collaborate together. The job & role of an AP in primary has changed, so much so that they require their own office space.
@FixingEducation
Not sure this accurately reflects my setting. ✌️ Logical consequences, righting wrongs, mandated policy driven consequences (cause we have to) and restorative approach is something we have worked hard on in our setting to uphold. And I feel our community appreciates this. ✌️
Nothing worse than testing positive and missing Year Six Graduation ceremony, Year Six Farewell and the Year Six Farewell arch. Absolutely gutted !!! Will miss this cohort of kids and it’s upsetting that I am unable to say my final goodbyes in person…
#COVIDsucks
!!! 🥴⭐️❤️
It looks like I will be spending most of my Term 4 staffing the school. So many temporary and permanent positions to fill all at the one time. Anyone else feel me? 🥴
✨✨✨ Kindergarten 1991 at Quakers Hill East Public School. I have so many great memories of my primary years and ironically, my own primary school was the school I later returned to as Deputy Principal and Relieving Principal. ✨✨✨
#ProudToBePublic
#ProudlyPublic
❤️
Tomorrow we will be marking Public Education Day under the banner
#ProudToBePublic
Please share your story and old school photo telling us why you're
#ProudToBePublic
After 7 days in isolation with my wife and kids, it seems that it is now my turn to board the COVID train and isolate for an additional 7 days… 😵💫😵💫😵💫🥴🥴🥴 Honestly… 🙄🙄🙄 Freedom awaits me next Saturday from 12pm!!!
#countdownbeginsAGAIN
I am loving our new vision statement !!! ❤️❤️❤️ It’s short, sharp, to the point and represents our school’s shared moral imperative and our ‘why’ !!! ❤️❤️❤️ We cling to this in times of great challenge and hardship !!! ❤️❤️❤️
#RootyHillROCKS
!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Every school should have a bank of strategies that are explicitly taught to students and which are universally known, valued and supported within a school wide Positive Behaviour for Learning framework!!! 🙌✨✨ Fabulous job
@Punchbowl_PS
and of course,
@thevisionhub
!!! 🙌✨✨❤️
Today, I was super surprised to receive a membership invitation to the
@Golden_Key
Honour Society for my efforts studying my Masters of Education (Educational Leadership) at
@UOW
. I can also confirm that I wouldn’t have been close to this offer as an undergrad, so I’ll take it!🥳
And just like that, my journey through the
@nswppa
credential comes to an end… Fantastic professional learning and exceptionally appreciative of my amazing facilitator
@KarenMaraga
and my validation panel
@vickianne2905
and
@Moth_T
! Highly recommended PL for school leaders! 🙌✨
Tomorrow is
#PrincipalsDay2020
!!! I would like to send all the local and not so local Principals a BIG shout out of appreciation. I have the privilege to currently be an acting Principal and I can see first hand the work you do in schools. Thank you and keep sparkling! 🙌✨✨❤️
Our amazing school counsellor shared this really simple infographic that outlines the
@NSWEducation
support structure from mainstream through to SSP. It’s amazingly simple, to the point and highly useful for staff and families. 🙌
Teachers will understand this: This week, tears flowed as I farewelled two students I held close to my heart from our school. We have been on a journey together, albeit a short one. I was humbled to receive this beautiful gift to remember them. 🙌✨✨❤️
When you look out your office window at lunch time to see students participating in our teacher led Yoga and meditation group! ❤️ I love that we have created beautiful outdoor spaces & I love it even more that these spaces are regularly accessed by students!
#RootyHillROCKS
❤️
@Dean_of_math
I think I can safely speak for the majority of educators when I say that our lesson closures sound something like “QUICK! That was the eating time bell! Grab your food and get out! QUICK!” followed by a frantic run to get your playground duty bum bag and vest. 🫣🫣🤔
✨✨✨ The latest transformation at
@RootyHillPS
by our friends at
#GroundedGraphics
!!! Our handball courts with a ‘twist’ (literally!) ✨✨✨ More photos in this post / thread !!! 🥳🥳🥳
#RootyHillROCKS
!!! ❤️❤️❤️
✨ Every student in our school has four targeted learning goals that are aligned with our school’s instructional core & strategic priorities. Now & as a response to our TTFM data, every child will identify a set of ‘Success Advocates’ they trust & can seek out in times of need.✨
I can confirm that today, I completed ALL (11+ courses) of my mandatory training and can confirm that the data instantaneously moves across to SCOUT in the HR app under staff compliance! Gone are the days of downloading, printing, emailing and/or uploading certificates!!! 🙌🤩✨
For SDD, we will begin by doing a Dicebreaker activity. I ended up making my own template of questions for teachers returning from school holidays. Thanks to
@heinrichexplore
for the Google Doc template to work from. 🙌✨✨
I truly adore this photo of SLSO Michelle and I launching our Rooty Hill Community Pantry during Learning from Home. It does however bring back a series of emotions I’d rather not revisit. Face to face Teaching is where it’s at and I’m so appreciative to love where I work! 🙌✨🌈
We might be a tad bit excited to launch our ‘PRIME TIME’ initiative this term !!! We’ve been talking about adopting this approach for some time & now we are going for it !!! Can’t wait to see the impact !!! 🙌🙌🙌
#RootyHillROCKS
@karls_85
@SuzanneBridge2
This letter from an
@RootyHillPS
student has been transformed into an important artefact that marks a milestone in my professional learning journey. So much so that it’s now framed in my office. This picture represents a great story that I’ll never forget. 🙌✨❤️
#RootyHillROCKS
Today I built our school’s ‘Home Learning Hub’ - A virtual gateway for our community to access learning opportunities. Pretty happy with where I landed. Love love LOVE Google Sites !!!
@karls_85
@SuzanneBridge2
🙌✨✨ 😇
As a profession, we need to get better at celebrating others !!! I know of schools where they choose not to nominate staff for recognition as it may upset others. What a horrendous work culture !!! 🥴🥴🥴
When you leave your daughter alone in your office for 5 minutes and she graffitis your whiteboard… but graffitied in the BEST way possible… ❤️❤️❤️
#loveourschool
#RootyHillROCKS
!!! 😂😂😂
A beautiful moment in time as we launched the 2023 school year by officially opening our very own Yarning Circle alongside our community and special guests. I adore the story contained in the plaque highlighting the work & achievement of our students. ❤️💛🖤
#RootyHillROCKS
!!!
The statistics speak for themselves. 640 enrolments, 440 Parent Teacher Interviews & almost 2000 individualised reading, numeracy, wellbeing and attendance goals co-written in partnership with families. An
#engagedcommunity
focused on our
#instructionalcore
!🙌
#RootyHillROCKS
Fun day at school transforming a blank wall into something that’s looking quite spectacular !!! 2nd coat tomorrow then the black detailing next week. Ready for our Sporting House point competition kicking off in Term 4 !!! 🙌✨✨❤️
#RootyHillROCKS
Accountability and responsibility. Whenever you hear the word accountability, translate it to the word responsibility and see what changes! Responsibility in education comes from the heart (❤️). Well said Ann McIntyre!!!
@nswppa
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I’d like to wish all the teachers out there an amazing start, middle, end & all the parts in between Term 4!!! Look after yourself & if you come into moments where you’re feeling demoralised or devalued, be brave & speak up to a trusted ally. Because YOU & what you do matters! ❤️
Got quite a bit of interest so here is take 2 of our
@RootyHillPS
Learning Hub launching in Term 4 !!! Thanks to
@ICTLaurens
and
@ryannoonan5
for helping me iron out a few privacy kinks. Suggestions and ideas you may have welcome and appreciated. 🙌✨✨