A Change of Career
A Change of Career It’s funny. This whole experience so far has been both the most enjoyable thing I have done but also the most trying, tiring and difficult. When I spoke to friends before I started this teacher training course, I got a bit of a mixed bag of responses from those who were […]
Tackling the First Term as a Trainee Teacher
Tackling the First Term as a Trainee Teacher “Miss.” “Miss Pickerill?” It takes a minute but my brain finally engages and I realise that the child waving their arm in the air is talking to me. After my first half term as a trainee teacher being called ‘miss’ is still quite the novelty. I have to remind […]
Top 5 Tips for Bossing your First Term as a Trainee Teacher
Top 5 Tips for Bossing your First Term as a Trainee Teacher As my first term as a trainee teacher has come to an end, I have been reflecting on how I managed to thrive through my first SCITT teaching placement. And as someone who has survived, I wanted to share by five top tips […]
A Step by Step Survival Guide to Teacher Training
A Step by Step Survival Guide to Teacher Training I swapped with a fellow trainee to write about how to survive being a trainee teacher because she questioned if she was surviving. I thought it would be easy and offered to swap. I sat down after a particular testing day and questioned it myself. How […]
Delving Deeper
Delving Deeper Never underestimate the power of clay… I did! I have come from a digital background; my practice consists of working with multiple screen based media. The fluidity from camera to screen, to manipulation, to projection is slick, clean and instant. This juxtaposition from clay couldn’t been more of a contrast. I foolishly believed […]
CDP is Key
CDP is Key! As PE teachers, Teacher standard 1a can often take on a new meaning, as some of the activities we teach can be very dangerous. Trampolining is an example of one of these sports so we were keen to ensure our subject knowledge in this area was as up to date as possible […]
Aspiring To Senior Leadership: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
So many of those in middle leadership, will at some point aspire to be on Senior Leadership; it’s the natural progression and order of a school route.
What if it were my classroom
What if it were my classroom… It’s green. Not just any shade of green. A juicy shade of green that you only want to imagine floating around in your weekly gin and tonic. “This is your new classroom, you will be spending most of your placement time in here,” welcomed my new mentor; as my […]
How to Organise the Unorganised
How to Organise the Unorganised It’s 7:30pm on a Sunday, I’ve just finished my roast dinner with my family and the busy week I have ahead of me is creeping in… At the start of my teacher training, I used to get the ‘Sunday scaries’ where I would freak out about the following week because […]
First Half Term Done
First Half Term Done Wow – what a whirlwind! Now where to start. It feels like it was only yesterday that I walked through the doors to the National Forest Teaching school and my home school. Now, I’ve survived my first half term, and oh what a feeling that is. The first couple of weeks […]
