Second Placement

Well, I've just completed my first week in my second placement. Spent all week observing and working with small groups. Its amazing how quickly you settle in, learn the names and find your way around!
It's really different in this school. Its a middle school, (the last was a lower school), so yrs 5-8, and has a much more secondary feel. The kids move classrooms a lot, and I'm following them round. It means not have a single classroom as a real base, although I spent most of my time in the form room. Also means working with several different teachers, which is interesting and good for seeing lots of different styles etc.
I'm enjoying it, and settling in well, and its only 5 weeks (4 now) but I'm still kind of looking forward to getting back to my other school. Its weird, because in a way I feel more relaxed in the second placement (perhaps because I feel like me 'real' mentor isn't there, or because they don't have the same expectations of me, or something) but the safety of my 'real' school still beckons.
I'm having to plan and teach (by the looks of it) more by other peoples plans, and team teach (which essentially means feeling stifled) rather than doing all my own plans on my own. I guess it should be easier, but I liked the autonomy of being able to teach the way I wanted in my first placement.
Really looking forward to having my own class now. Not many jobs coming up at the moment. Cross fingers for me!