Margate Primary School teacher Susan Munro has retired after 38 years of teaching.
“Over the last two weeks of term I collaborated with a local artist Rhi Headley to design and draw up a mural which is my gift to the school,” Susan said.
“During my art classes students from Prep to Year 4 helped paint the mural.
“They loved doing this and all felt like ‘real’ artists.
“Art and literacy have always been my two main passions.”
Susan first taught at St Helens District High School and from there moved to Glen Huon, then Taroona, Riverside Primary, Mount Stuart, Huonville and finally Margate Primary, where she has worked for the last 14 years.
Whilst Susan might have left Margate Primary School, she hasn’t quite left teaching.
Susan has always wanted to teach in another culture but found she lacked the confidence earlier in her career.
She is ready to make that step now.
“I am leaving in July to teach in Lombok, Indonesia,” Susan said.
“I feel it is quite serendipitous as the school is founded by Mark Heyward and his wife, Sopan.
“Mark was my principal when I first taught at Glen Huon in 1990.”
