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T minus 16 days till lift off!



The thunderbirds seems to represent how I feel at the moment as I start the 16 day countdown to officially leading learning at my first school as principal! Though the paperwork has started already!!

I've been at my new school twice this week to begin connecting with my team, meeting students and joy of joys writing contracts! It was the contracts that caused me to finally realise, holy heck, I'm a principal... when I finished the contracts and went to turn to my principal to get a final check... and realised... oh yes, that's me!!
Lucky I'm a systems nerd so I'm damn sure they where correct:)

It was a bittersweet day today as I did a last day of work in one of my favourite schools. But the excitement of the journey to come won the day.
Now the hard work will start !
Thunderbirds out

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  1. Ms Bee10 July 2017 at 13:39

    Congratulations Jo! You'll be amazing!

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    1. Unknown10 July 2017 at 16:33

      Thanks Claire! I'm super excited and can't wait to implement all I've learnt about leadership from so many amazing people:)

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