DANNY HYNDMAN

This blog post was originally published in July 2025 using data from 2024 and earlier. This updated version also contains 2025 data. There are other schools that also have some excellent data to share, but for the purposes of this article I’ve kept it to the four original schools. ************************************ "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” ― Mark Twain When you look back on previo

WOORI YALLOCK PRIMARY SCHOOL’S 150 TH ANNIVERSARY SPEECH 150th Celebration – Official Things (Running Sheet) MC: Molly & Tyson (School Captains) 12pm Welcome - Aunty Joy & smoking ceremony 12.15pm - James Merlino - including official opening of the school, ribbon held by school captains and cut by Aunty Joy and curtain opening by James Merlino 12.25pm - Molly & Tyson – old building to the new building and how it’s changed in your time at the school. 12.30pm - Time capsul

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” ― Mark Twain When you look...

The use of how ‘school’ data is currently used in Australia has its origins dating back as far as 1990. In this year, New South Wales...

It wasn’t always safe to stand on duty at the front of the school before the day started. In six years, I saw a range of incidents. From...

“Fuck off, I don’t care if you are the principal. Just fuck off, and get out.” I waited for about half a second, then got up and left the...

Way back in 2011, I was successfully appointed as principal of a primary school that was arguably the worst performing school in the...

Teaching is the best job in the world, but it is also the hardest. It is a demanding profession at the best of times, and in the middle...

It takes a long time to build a school up to excellence. This is a story of pride and surprise. In 2010, as part of a regional conference, a presentation was made using a school’s data to highlight that it was the worst performing in the region. The school remained anonymous in the presentation, but enough time has passed to let you know that it was Woori Yallock PS. Prior to 2011: the school was teacher centred, with a welfare mentality the teaching and learning was fra