{"id":228,"date":"2014-06-28T13:40:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T13:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newblog.primefactorisation.com\/2014\/06\/28\/back-home-from-canberra\/"},"modified":"2024-11-02T15:04:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T20:04:45","slug":"back-home-from-canberra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/28\/back-home-from-canberra\/","title":{"rendered":"Back home from Canberra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We made it home and I&#8217;m incredibly tired, but now it&#8217;s school holidays \ud83d\ude42 After re-reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/23\/mr-carter-goes-to-canberra\/\">my post about going to Canberra with Year 7 &amp; 8<\/a>, I&#8217;ve realised how pessimistic I sounded. In fact, it was a really good time, and our students were very well behaved. There&#8217;s a few things I want to write about in detail, eventually, but for now I&#8217;ll just make a note of a few of the things that happened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I really enjoyed the National Portrait Gallery. I know! Not really what I expected either. A lot of this was from our tour guide, who didn&#8217;t just show us the artworks, but involved a number of different educational activites and got the students to think about what they meant within a theme of &#8220;Australian Identity&#8221;. I wouldn&#8217;t be at all surprised if she used to be a teacher.<\/li>\n<li>The War Memorial continues to be one of the most moving places I&#8217;ve been to. I really need to find an opportunity to visit Canberra again so I can spend a whole day there.<\/li>\n<li>Questacon is still one of my favourite places in the world. Of course this was always going to be my highlight, but I think it was for a lot of the kids as well. If you don&#8217;t know what Questacon is, it&#8217;s basically a gallery of a whole range of hands-on science demonstrations and activities (including a decent smattering of maths).<\/li>\n<li>Also from Questacon, I probably spent too much in the shop. I don&#8217;t get many opportunities to buy books about maths where I live, and my collection consists of mostly uni textbooks. So I picked up some holiday reading. (Admittedly, one of them is about physics).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/content\/images\/2014\/Jun\/questacon-books.jpg\" alt=\"Books from Questacon\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Also: pi mug!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/content\/images\/2014\/Jun\/pi-mug.jpg\" alt=\"PI MUG!!!\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After I scored better than the kids at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/25\/ten-pin-bowling-and-combinatorics\/\">ten pin bowling<\/a>, some of them have taken to calling me &#8220;Mr. Skills&#8221;. They starting talking about me similarly to how the internet talks about Chuck Norris. When we visited Parliament we met our local member &#8211; after they saw me chatting with him, these kids became convinced that I &#8220;know him from way back&#8221;. They started telling stories about me secretly being friends with the Prime Minister and actually being the one in charge of federal politics. I&#8217;m a little worried about where this might lead&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Other than the strange rumors being started about me, it was great to get to know these kids and to have them get to know me. I don&#8217;t actually teach either of these classes, so a lot of them have previously just been names and faces to me. If I teach them in the future, it should make the start of the year a lot easier.<\/li>\n<li>I spent all week limping around Canberra after being hit by a hockey ball on my ankle last Saturday. But it&#8217;s OK now &#8211; it&#8217;s been balanced out by being hit on my other foot today. I think it really is time to have a rest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We made it home and I&#8217;m incredibly tired, but now it&#8217;s school holidays \ud83d\ude42 After re-reading my post about going to Canberra with Year 7 &amp; 8, I&#8217;ve realised how pessimistic I sounded. In fact, it was a really good time, and our students were very well behaved. There&#8217;s a few things I want to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/28\/back-home-from-canberra\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back home from Canberra&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}