Sorry for such a delay in writing my next entry. Placement was so busy, I didn't have time to breath never mind write a blog!!
I have been back at uni now for a week after a 3 week placement (1a as the uni like to call it!). I was based in Year 1 and will be going back again after Christmas for another 5 weeks (1b!). I have to say I was very skeptical about the school when I went for my initial visit. It's a pretty rough school, in a deprived area of the city. Within 10 minutes of being in the school I had to break up a fight between 2 year 6 boys.
However, since being at the school I have grown to love it! My class are lovely, a challenge sometimes, but most of the time they're just regular kids!! I've taught quite a bit but as it's a paired placement I haven't actually taught a whole lesson by myself yet. We're supposed to team teach around 4 hours of the core curriculum (so maths, english and science) so it's not really that much. We took it in turns to teach the starter, main and plenary. I also gained a love for teaching phonics! I LOVE IT!!!!
Awesome phonics resources on TES.
Over all it was a really lovely placement and the teacher was very supportive too. My only negative is the long hours!!! Most days I didn't finish school until 6.30 and then had to go home and do all my uni work too. We tended to write our lesson plans in draft form at school and then I had to type them all up for uni in the evening...such a pain!!! Also, I have grown to hate filing!!! I love marking but hate then having to put it all into their folders! One tip if your school uses cardboard folders with treasury tags for kids work....don't put the back covers on until the end of the topic....they're a pain to take off when you're filing!!!
Anyways, I best get going as still have 1000 words of my first assignment to do! Fortunately we have Wednesday off this week due to the union strikes so that will be nice!!
Oh one last thing, if you haven't signed the bursary petition yet please do so....here's the link!!
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/162
Thanks,
Take Care,
Student Teacher
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