First things first! Well done!!! You made it through the first half of the Autumn term. You survived, the children all made some progress, you taught them things they didn’t already know. This is all a reason to celebrate. In…
Aside from the huge task of learning how to teach, how a new school runs and the expectations of being an NQT, the other BIG and sometimes terrifying moment is your first Parents’ Evening. I remember mine vividly! It can…
One of the areas of teaching that took me longest to get my head around when I was an NQT was Guided Reading. Somehow I couldn’t make it make sense in my head how to make it work. How did…
On Thursday 13th September it will be Roald Dahl’s 102nd birthday and the official Roald Dahl Day! Across the country, schools will be dressing up as The Twits, making sweets like Willy Wonka and learning more about how the Giant…
With term rapidly approaching (or actually here for some schools) there are a number of questions which are coming up again and again from NQT’s. It’s always tricky starting any new job, but one where you are in full control…
September is coming around fast and, as an NQT, one of the biggest worries is always what you should do in the first few days. Somehow those first days feel so much more worrying than the other days, mainly because…
Many many moons ago I absolutely LOVED to write. I’d spend hours and hours writing letters to friends over the long Summer holidays – copying articles from magazines I thought they like to read, making up poems and filling them…
