I met my new school!

I went along last Friday to meet my new school.
It was soooo informal and friendly. The HT just showed me round, gave me the whole tour, chatted about the history of the place etc.I spent half an hour in the classroom I'll be in (yr 2) working with a group of kids, and then chatted with the teacher (she's really lovely and we got on really well).
They said that because I had minimal classroom experience I wouldn't be expected to do any whole class teaching for the first 5 wks (basically the first half term) unless I wanted to start doing starters etc. She also said that she'd be in school during the summer hols and she'd give me a ring so I could come in to discuss planning, behaviour, schemes etc before we start.
And they have a day when the current yr 1's will be visiting the yr2 classroom for a day in July so I'll be going in then to meet the class and spend the day in the classroom.Also, one of the mentors in school trained via the GTP so they know what it's like.The school gave me the CRB and health forms (so I guess that's different to the SCITT) and the contract to fill in.
It's all really exciting!

slowly moving forwards...

I rang my base school today and the Head answered the phone, which was unexpected. I arranged to go in and meet everyone etc a week on Friday, which I'm very excited about!It looks like I'm taking the place of the TA in their Yr2/3 class (29 children) who is also doing GTP from Sept. It's beginning to feel very real now!
I can finally start to imagine what it's going to be like (and hopefully will soon have lots of school policy booklets to read through!)

info at last.

Well, it's been a while since I last posted, mainly because not a lot has happened. However, just last week I got a letter telling me which would be my base school. Hurrah.
Not as near as I'd like - 20min+ drive non rush hour traffic - but it's not too bad either. It's a tiny village lower school, just 120 pupils and the website holds a some info like the fact they use Sounds-Write phonics programme.
I still don't know which year I'll be teaching though.
I have an initial needs analysis in June, apparently, so I'll hopefully get more info then, and they said they'd give me the head's details then - which I took to mean for me not to approach the school until I've been to the meeting. But I may not wait.
I've got the number of someone that works as a TA at the school so I'm going to ring her and chat about the place, see what I can find out.
Anyway, that's about it. Finally decided to leave my current job at the beginning of August so I have te whole mont off. Hurrah again!