My Huddersfield Horizon SCITT journey has been revolutionary! To understand why, you must keep reading. Our journey into teaching has started a little differently to what HH SCITT had initially expected, due to the pandemic. Forty individuals not knowing what to expect with two amazing…

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In your ITT year you will meet at lot of fantastic teachers, you mentor will have years in the classroom under their belt. You will see that fantastic RQT that strides in and out of the staffroom, taking everything in their stride, setting up clubs…

By the time you have found my voice reader, I hope that the unprecedented situation that the UK is in has passed, or, is beginning to come to an end. Schools shut on Friday 20th March, just as my SCITT colleagues and I were getting…

I have been wondering about the best way to approach this blog to ensure that I take it in the right direction for people that are just starting their teacher training, or for those further along in their careers that are just taking on a…

My name is Meg, I am 32 and I am a trainee English teacher. I have always felt that I could write a book – isn’t there a saying out there that everyone has a book in them? When I was a teenager, I used…

So in March 2017, after a sleep-deprived night with my 5-month-old baby, I got the phone call to ask me if I wanted to apply for teacher training. ‘Yes!’ Was the response, I was planning on going back to work for a year before applying,…

‘The first rule of teaching is good behaviour – if you can’t get students to behave, you can’t teach them.’ This is a sentiment I heard approximately 1000 times in my first few weeks of teacher training, alongside this brand-new concept (at least to me)…