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We are starting up Agriculture next year and I need to know is it part of the Lab Assistants job?
Thanks Debbie

Our Ag comes under the TAS faculty so hence I don't do anything for them apart from the very occasionally thing like getting some seeds or the like.

We have Agriculture here at a govt school and we have an Ag Assistant 3 days a week. It is a different category to a School Admin Assistant, with different conditions and pay. I am not required to do anything for Ag even though Ag is attached to the Science faculty, other than perhaps some photocopying of exams etc,

We have an Ag assistant too. Sometimes I go across the road to the farm to borrow stuff but apart from that it's not my department.
J

Here Ag is also attached to the Science Faculty with 3 teachers teaching both.
We have an Ag assistant 3 days a week, who is as Dime mentioned, under different conditions pay and leave wise to us.
I do some Ag photocopying and getting Science equipment for them when needed.
This doesn't happen often but when it does they need the equipment for several lessons.
This is usually plastic measuring cylinders and beakers.
They do things like soil testing for pH and moisure content.
Weighing bundles of grasses thay have grown and then drying them out and weighing again.
DO NOT let them take your scales down to the Ag plot, if you ever get them back they will be destroyed.
Ensure they get there own set.

I refuse to go to the abatoirs for them to get intestinal tracts for dissection.
The Ag plot is handy though for spinach for the enzyme prac and lemons for batteries

Thanks everyone for your reply's.Will tell my Head Teacher.
Merry Christmas to everyone.xx

fibreweb wrote: DO NOT let them take your scales down to the Ag plot, if you ever get them back they will be destroyed.
Ensure they get there own set.

Ag has "borrowed " quite a few things over the years, with and without my knowledge, never to return.

We have Ag attached to the Science faculty, our Ag teachers prepare risk assessments (the same as for Science) for their in class pracs, and I get this equipment ready for them.