Bob, our awesome school caretaker

 

Bob is a fabulous caretaker who keeps Sylvia Park School spotless. He is about 65 years old and is meticulous when it comes to fixing up jobs. He is also a superb handy-man who has carved a magnificent sheild with our room number 15 on it, with his amazing Jigsaw. Now aren't we fortunate to have such a  talented man around in our school!

 

Bob comes well- equipped to build useful stuff such as a rack to hang our bags to help keep our class neat and tidy. Wow! what a helpful caretaker!

 

Bob is also awesome in the classroom explaining to kids how to do stuff like drill a hole, screw on things with his amazing screw driver and hammar nails. He gives clear instructions like "Turn the screw clockwise." I thought that there was only one kind of head on a nail- but Bob told us that there were the square head, flat head and so on. Bob "knocked the nail on the head" when he said that we learn quickly- and so have we. Now we know heaps about fix-up jobs.

" I think I want to be a janitor just like Bob when I grow up" said Sylas and Trey.

 

 

Bob is a responsible and careful worker around students. He tells us the rules or the 'precautions ' we have to take when using dangerous electric tools like the jigsaw and drill. He never shouts when we break safety rules but he says in a quiet as a mouse -voice "What did I say? " to Sione, the fidgeter,who was putting his hands too close to the cutting tool.

 

 

Bob is an expert when it comes to actually using the different tools. He is a dextrious man who seems to have the technical know-how to use his tools to do a job, safely. Bob is "a place for everything and everything in its place," man. That's our man!

 

 

Bob loves to talk to others about the job he does. He knows how to progress the sequence of his "show an tell" lessons from one tool to the next by merely saying "Shall we move onto the jigsaw tool now?" No arresting the lessons by saying 1,2,3 or bus stop! Gosh, that's the surest way to kill the lesson. But not with Bob- he knows how to motivate and lead kids from one tool to the next, without making as much fuss. That's Bob 4 U!

 

 

Now check out his precision work! "Would you like me to cut out your room number?" he asked us and of course we all screamed "Ya!" After that he asked "Would you like me to cut out a circle to screw on the numbers?." Again we called out "Yes, Bob!" He quickly drew a circle with Armand's short stubby pencil and away went the jigsaw, zzzing around and before long he had cut out a perfect circle. "Yay! Thanks Bob for that magnificent shield." cheered the children.

 

 

Bob is an alien from outerspace who is invading planet "SPS". Bob wears yellow earmuffs like the captain of a UFO spaceshuttle and goggles like the shadowed eye-patch of a meerkat. Wow! what a unique mixture of character.