Finishing second placement.

Well, those five weeks went quickly. I officially have 3 days left in school but two afternoons the kids are doing DVD watching and Easter Service so it seems like less.
It's weird in a middle school. The class I follow have about 9 different teachers and it's quite hard to catch up with them to arrange things and even harder to ask them to officially observe lessons, never mind actually get the observations off of them!
I haven't really taught much this 1/2 term, but I have learnt loads from the observations I have done. There are so many secondary trained teachers who are teaching their specialist subject that it's been really useful watching them. I've also seen some secondary teachers teaching things they weren't trained for, which is interesting as well!
I'm going to miss the kids. Some are awful (not in my form -mostly!) and there's been some amazing behaviour while I was there . The worst from my form group were two boys fighting and one trying to escape from school.
I shall be glad to go back to lower school, but wouldn't refuse a job in that middle. The teachers were so incredibly helpful and friendly I can't believe it - the school has a really friendly feel.
It'll be weird going back to my 'little' school, and hard work. The middle is much more relaxed, and my mentor pushes me much harder, and expects a lot more and the teaching workload will really crank up.
The most I've taught so far is about a 60% timetable (about 3 days/week) and I need to go up to 90% for my final assessed practise. But now I feel really confident as a teacher generally, it's only more specialist subjects such as PE and Music that I worry about teaching now, and even maths is falling into place.
I've been searching for jobs over the last few weeks. I looked around a couple of schools but neither were right for one reason or another, and the one I applied to I didn't hear back from anyway. Beginning to think about widening my criteria - originally I just wanted KS2 but now thinking about KS1 jobs. My son's school (which I love) may even have a Reception job going soon and I'm considering that, I love the school so much! Ideally I want yr 4, I think, but in the end I just want a job in September!!