I have worked with passionate people before in my teaching life but never before have I felt that everybody around me in the school building, is passionate about what they do! It is 6:30 on a Saturday in the middle of a long weekend and I woke up this morning creating this blog post in my head! Two days ago the teaching staff held a three hour teaching and learning activity in the afternoon when ninety percent of other schools were already enjoying the beginning of their long weekend. And the reason for this outpouring of words now is that every single one of those people involved, created the passion I felt ….. everybody laughed, encouraged, was vulnerable about their perceived lack of experience but the school hall vibrated with their passion……. their passion for learning themselves, passion for creating a better society in South Africa, passion for their teaching and passion for making learning exciting for the children they work with every day.
At 15:45 we started packing up and then another passionate group arrive. The operations team stopped their own work to join the team in the hall, to pack away quickly so that we could all start our long weekend as soon as possible.
In the meanwhile the school’s admin and finance team was working in their offices, ensuring that the school had the necessary financial resources to support the passionate teaching fraternity, and the necessary communications and IT support too. Both teams had also supported the set up of the hall and the provision of lunch and coffee to sustain the enthusiasm in the hall.
Passion is definitely contagious!
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