Hi, I’m Pete Whiting. I’m a school leader from regional New South Wales, Australia, and I also teach a bit of Chemistry and Science. This is my personal blog. The goal is pretty simple: to organise my thinking and reflect on my work as both a teacher and a leader. If anything I share ends up being useful to someone else, that’s a bonus. If you’ve got feedback, ideas, or anything I could be doing better, I’d love to hear from you.
At the moment, I’m the Director of Teaching and Learning and the Coordinator of Wellbeing at a small, recently established independent K–12 school. We offer the International Baccalaureate and are based in rural NSW. The journey so far has been exciting and full-on, and the school is growing in all the right ways.
This blog originally centred around my flipped classroom and our early experiments with gamification and mastery learning. Those are still interests of mine, but things have changed a bit since then.
A couple of years ago, I got very sick. I nearly died, and recovery took a while. I let the blog go during that time. But I’ve missed it. Writing helps me sort out my ideas and reflect on what I’ve been reading and doing. So, I’m back.
These days, I imagine the focus will shift a bit more towards leadership and my work in teaching and learning across the school. But as always, it’ll just be me trying to think things through and get better at what I do.
Thanks for stopping by.
Bluesky: @mrvanw.bsky.social
Twitter: @Mr_van_W (I don’t use this much anymore)
Youtube (home of all of our videos): https://www.youtube.com/c/pwhiting
LinkedIn:Pete Whiting
Mr van W's Class 
Hi Mr. Pete Whiting,
Our chemistry class is a big fan of your edrolo videos. We really appreciate all the memes that you put into your videos to make them more fun. Your teaching is really awesome and really helped us so far.
From your Chevalier College fans
I know this is late but I’m back to the blog. I’m glad you all loved the Edrolo stuff, I hope it stayed useful. It was almost the last thing I ever did due to health (which is why I missed this comment so so long ago) but we’re back now. Hope the Chemistry at Chevalier is still going well.