Sheila Bollard

Teaching often feels like playing a video game where the difficulty keeps ramping up. You dodge flying pencils like arrows,…

Many years ago, I turned into Lady Penelope from Thunderbirds, minus the pink Rolls-Royce. I’d developed one of those stiff…

Let’s be real, most school staffrooms feel like a chaotic extension of the classroom. Timetables, calendars, union notices, and the…

I had a Year 6 class, and we were experimenting to test the strength of a chicken egg. The task…

“The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.” Mem…

I was fascinated by a keyring one of my students made in Before School Care. It was made by arranging…

During my role as an Assistant Principal at a public primary school in Sydney, my two boys attended the same…