The VCAA Chemistry exam sits on my desk, freshly printed and recently completed by the 2014 cohort of Chemistry students. And yet here I am preparing for my 2015 Year 12 students who will be sitting in the classroom within the week. Year 12 is always a sprint to the end. For many students it has seemed to take an eternity to arrive at the last year of the schooling, but all too soon the year is over and they are moving onto new things. I love the beginning of the school year. New students, new ideas, new books, new pens. Its a time to start again and a time to reflect on the year that has been. Considering what worked well,  what needed further work, investigating new ways of note taking or finding out the current research on growth mindset. The joy of teaching is that there is always something new around the corner. So I wonder -what will the new of 2015 be?