The Wamoon Public School teacher has decided to hang up her erasers and put away the chalk as she moves to the next stage of her life.

“I'm secretly sick of doing homework,” Mrs Morshead joked.

“It'll be a different life, but no point in being sad about it.”

A teacher of all grades, she said it was hard to pinpoint any one moment that stood out to her.

Instead, there was one particular feeling that always made her day.

“One of the best things is - because I've taught all grades - it's always exciting when a child takes off and starts learning, especially with reading and writing,” she said.

“You change a life then.”

Mrs Morshead has always taken that responsibility in her stride.

“The philosophy of the school is to focus on the basics,” she said.

“You come to school each day and try to take them to the next step.

“If it didn't work, go home and think about why it didn't work and how else you can do it .

“I always say to the kids, if you can't understand it, you have to tell me and it's my job to go away and think of another way to do it.”

She joked that the students hadn’t always appreciated her way of teaching.

“I love teaching music,” she said.

“Before we had a CD player I used to sing the songs to the kids.

“One day, one of the kids said 'miss, every time you sing the song, it sounds different than the last time’.”

Wamoon Public’s principal Chris George has worked alongside Mrs Morshead for 30 years.

He said she would be a big loss.

“There's a lot of people with fond memories of her, some probably not so fond,” he joked.

“She's been a real backbone of the school for a long time.

“Been very innovative and always ahead of the game with a lot of stuff.

“She's been a fantastic teacher for all that time.”

Mrs Morshead officially had her last day as a school teacher on Thursday, May 26.