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 final hurdle is no higher than the rest but feels like it is! I remember at the start of my teacher training journey in September, when for the first time I stood in front of my class with a huge grin on my face,…

‘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)…

I would like to start by congratulating myself, the other Huddersfield Horizoners (Horizoners? New word), primary teachers, secondary teachers, school staff and pupils everywhere for reaching this checkpoint. We have SURVIVED September. A month which is exciting, chaotic, overwhelming, confusing and exhilarating all at once…

Applying for the Penning Teaching School Alliance was a really easy and simple process, I attended a few applying to teaching events where they had a stall, and they were really approachable and sold the Alliance really well. They gave me plenty of advice and…

I enrolled on a secondary maths teaching course within weeks of meeting Emily Beach at Huddersfield Horizon SCITT. Being 37 years old and caring for three children full time, I felt quite isolated from the outside world. Emily Beach inspired me from the very beginning…