From August, I will be teaching at...

At the end of May I finally found out where I will be teaching next year. The budget for the Board of Education (BoE) has be cut severely this year meaning it has to reduce the number of ALTs it employs in August. This affects all the senior high schools and SHS ALTs in Niigata prefecture.
How it affects me is that my base school and visit schools will change. From August, Tsunan Chuto will be my base school. I will also visit Tsunan Koko, Tokamachi Sogo Koko and Kawanishi Koko. This means, from August, I will no longer be Tokamachi Koko's ALT. I'm a bit upset by this because I've been there for two years and I like the students and the teachers. I knew I would have to say goodbye to them at some point, but I though that I would have another year to write my goodbye speech.
But, shoganai (it can't be helped), so I need to start preparing for leaving Tokamachi Koko. One of the things I feel I should do is organise my materials so the new ALT will have a good resource for lessons. In April I wrote an annual plan for both my first year and third year classes, so I'll expand on those adding more details and copies of the hadouts used. I'll make a copy for myself too so I can have a resource for my new schools.
At the moment, the ALT for my two new schools (Tokamachi Sogo Koko and Kawanishi Koko) is Debbie. From what she's been telling me, it sounds like teaching her students will be great. I also met some of her students at Toka Sogo's Culture Day last year and they're really genki. I think I'll need a different style of teaching for the new schools so I hope I can work it out before I have to leave next year.

And with the change of base schools, allsorts of other things will be changing too; supervisor, working schedule, admin routines. It's going to be an interesting August.