Nearly there.

Wow, never thought I'd get those standards signed off, but the majority of them are now, and I only have one teaching day left!
Next week I'm going to my new school to visit and discuss my new role, and then I'm going on a school trip with them to the Tutankhamun exhibition...for the 3 weeks following that I'm a spare wheel in my training school and will probably be given all kinds of horrible jobs to do. I already have to audit the science resources.
I have a transition day meeting my new pupils for the first time in July (3 weeks away! Arggh!) and a day to meet their previous teachers the week before that. Oh, and parents to meet too!

I was recently emailing another GTPer about to start and thought I'd share the advice I gave her:

Everyone told me to rest and relax before I started the course, but I'm glad I 'swotted' as by the time I got to about October I had no time at all to sit and watch teachers tv, or read books, but I could remember that I'd read about 'that aspect of child behaviour' in one of those books, which made it much easier.
Also, when the course starts, get your skills tests booked ASAP. By December you'll find you can no longer pick and choose slots as easily, and by Feb it gets really busy.
Practise the skills tests online on the TDA website. I never passed the maths one online but passed first time at the actual test (and thats my horror subject!)
Oh, and when you start gathering evidence, file it EVERY week, or even every night. I left it for 2 weeks once and it was a nightmare. Keep on top of it. I tend to spend a couple or more hours on a sunday getting my paperwork in order (cross referencing, filing, highlighting key phrases and writing the standard next to it, shuffling from one folder to another), but its worth it.
I've got to the point now that I can plan the entire week ahead (apart from tweaking maths and literacy) during the weeks PPA time but at first it tends to take an hour or two writing a single hours lesson!