Back to school!

Into my second day at Orwell High School and the big challenges of this PGCE placement are now just around the corner. The school itself doesn't normally take on PGCE students and so we're all working hard in the ICT department to make sure that my placement goes smoothly! I am getting a good mix of KS3 and KS4 pupils as well as observing some A Level lessons, I have won the respect of most of the pupils I have met so far and am looking forward to teaching my first lesson. Yesterday, I came across two big, chunky folders with the teacher training standards work from a previous pupil and so have got an idea of just how much work I've got to do over the next year! I shall be keeping hold of any lesson plan, email, assessment sheets and school work I get hold off as I'm sure they'll be space in my folder for all. It already feels like my primary school placement was long ago!