Tuesday, 15 July 2008

Hurrah!!

Yay! I'm qualified!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Just got an email a few hours ago from my course provider saying that the exams commitee have passed me and all the other GTP students!

Yes!!

Wednesday, 9 July 2008

Actually a teacher (almost)

Wow! Busy couple of weeks - I've been on three school trips in the last week, which were great (if tiring!) and have met the previous teachers of the kids in my form who have all said okay-pleasing comments about the kids and today I had th class themselves for the first time ALL DAY!
It was a long day - the kids arrived and left at normal times and we had our own classroom.
I had various activities set up - I thought I might have too many but it was just right really.
We found out about each other and wrote facts about the person they were sitting next to on a hand (for display in september) then designed their own superhero (also for display and for a behaviour management type thing where they get to add to their hero as they earn house points).
Then they did pastel drawings of each other (not my idea but something all yr 5 form tutors did, so we did it too. Then I taught the kids the BSL finger spelling alphabet (with the great aid of my LSA) as we have a couple of kids in yr 5 that sign and I wanted to get them involved)
Then we dod a Passport To Year 5 - the wrote about their favourite subjects and target subjects, hobbies and targets for next year so I could get to know them and look at handwriting/spelling etc and they wrote about their superhero for the same reasons.
In the evenngs their was a parents evening where we were introduced to the parents and they were told about uniform and stuff, but didn't have to actually talk to anyone -which was just as well since I had completely lost my voice by then (caught a cold 2 days ago - bad timing!!)
Still waitin for my timetable (should be next week) and MTPs I will be lucky to get befor september!! Argghh.
I think I'll plan the first week and if I get plans or whatever then I'll use them, but at least I'll know I have something up my sleeve!
I have a school laptop though...
Feeling much more like a proper teacher!