Bob Fitzpatrick
 | I am a UK migrant who lives in “the Bush” on the outskirts of Perth. I enjoy bushwalking, outback travelling, playing tennis and anything outdoors. I also like reading, particularly in the realms of history, which was the one subject that I failed at school.
I gained a BSc in Chemistry and Geology with Physics at Portsmouth Polytechnic and added a post-graduate teaching qualification to it in 1976 from Portsmouth College of Education. After 10 years and four schools, I left a Head of Department position to emigrate from UK in 1987 with my wife and three daughters, and began teaching at Kelmscott Senior High School the next year.
I have taught science, electronics, robotics in lower school, and the senior school subjects of chemistry, geology and physics. I am currently the Head of Science at Armadale Senior High School (www.ashs.wa.edu.au), having previously been a program coordinator with responsibilities for curriculum improvement across the whole school.
I wrote the original submission for the Socially Responsible Science project, with the help and advice of Peter Taylor and Lily Settelmaier, and I have been coordinating the project for the past two years. I have written a dilemma based on the Western Swamp Tortoise information supplied by Wayne Walters from Perth Zoo and I trialled the Wetlands dilemma written by Stan Koios.
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