I hope I never really grow up. Just saying . . . . For many years I have been around kids – at work and at home and there is something contagious about their love for life and learning, being involved, and generally just getting into life. As a high school teacher for a couple of decades I have often reflected on how we, as a community, a family, an education system, a society, somehow squeeze so much of that child-like playfulness out of our children. It may be that we “have” to lose some of it as we mature, control our emotions and interact carefully with others. However, I think the eagerness to learn, willingness to have a go and just enjoy life is something I am really keen to keep alive in the school experience of our kids.

This week, we are celebrating Science Week here at Prescott Northern and there are all sorts of activities for the kids with rocket making competitions, space-themed treasure hunts, photo booth with pictures on the moon, STEM Club rocket launches at lunchtime and a mobile planetarium, to name a few. Watching and listening to the excitement of the children as they are involved in the learning, I have again been reminded of how important it is that I never really grow up. I am reminded how I need to keep that love of learning, that excitement in finding something new, that is so evident in the young ones – the joy of learning and life.