Well, I've finally arrived here at the end of my PGCE year. I can honestly say it's been the hardest year of my life so far. Being under the spotlight every moment of every working day really can take it out of you. I so nearly fell by the wayside in my first placement.
It's a bit of an anticlimax really. Even though the positive experiences of my second school placement greatly outweighed the negative experiences of the first, the last few weeks have been the hardest of all. These last few weeks we all knew that we'd done enough to get to the end. With the finishing point in sight my motivation was flagging, but I managed to drag myself into school for the remaining few days.
The course finished with a week back at university to catch up with old friends, hand in our portfolios and complete our Career Entry Development Profiles.
A few people on the course were still in school because they hadn't gathered sufficient evidence. Some of my more disorganised peers spent the last week chasing around completing their QTS Skills Tests, but I didn't have that worry.
Of the 50 of us that started only 35 remain.
A sociable cup of coffee and cheery wave goodbye and that was it.
PGCE year complete.
It's a bit of an anticlimax really. Even though the positive experiences of my second school placement greatly outweighed the negative experiences of the first, the last few weeks have been the hardest of all. These last few weeks we all knew that we'd done enough to get to the end. With the finishing point in sight my motivation was flagging, but I managed to drag myself into school for the remaining few days.
The course finished with a week back at university to catch up with old friends, hand in our portfolios and complete our Career Entry Development Profiles.
A few people on the course were still in school because they hadn't gathered sufficient evidence. Some of my more disorganised peers spent the last week chasing around completing their QTS Skills Tests, but I didn't have that worry.
Of the 50 of us that started only 35 remain.
A sociable cup of coffee and cheery wave goodbye and that was it.
PGCE year complete.