Reunions, reviews and work!
Blog 3, Reunions, reviews and guess what.......more
work!!
This week has been quite special. The most
important thing for us PGCE’rs is that we have finished our first
attachment and I think most of us did quite well. There are of
course some funny and sad stories, but what's the point of bringing
you all down right at the start!
Of course, with us all finishing our first
attachment, my friends and I (along with everyone on the course)
got reunited!! I got to step into the Uni canteen on Monday just
gone and see all the lovely Bananas again. I should perhaps explain
that sentence as it may not make any sense. First, the canteen is
the refectory. That isn’t the most complicated sentence, but I feel
I should mention it anyway. Second, there is a reason I called them
the Bananas. Whilst on the PGCE course, we learn about very
different methods for separating the children into groups. 1, 2 and
3 are all well and good, but the kids might realize that they are
in the bottom group if they are in group 3 and that stigma “might
cause them psychological harm!!!” So they suggest you use different
names. One of the suggestions our ICT lecturer gave us was to use
fruit; Strawberry for the top set, raspberry for the middle set and
banana for the bottom set. So we decided that we were the Banana
group!!
Anyway, so we are back together! Back in the
canteen for our morning coffee before our lectures again. It is
really nice to be back inside lecture rooms again. It’s a nice
environment, I felt quite productive whilst I’m sitting in front of
a PowerPoint presentation with my pen and pad. It is a bit of a
gear shift from teaching in a school to being taught at uni. All
the staff have been really supportive though, they have put up with
all our stories (bare in mind there are around 70 of us, so that is
a lot of stories!). I also think I have learnt so much from other
peoples times in their respective schools. The different
experiences they have had, good or bad, gets you to think about
your own experiences and how you can improve yourself as a
teacher.
Despite being back into the routine I grew to
love over the first two months, the whole work load that had built
up before my attachment suddenly came rushing back. We all got
reminded about all the assignments that were due and how close some
of them are. I still have to finish one for Tuesday, but that’s
what the weekend is for! I can’t work today, not after the science
lesson we had. We got to burn stuff!! Well, Tom burnt lots of
stuff. There was a point to it, but we did get lost half way
through it!!
That is one of the great things about being on
this course. We actually get to live as a primary student for a day
or so, doing the lessons we are about to teach for the rest of our
lives. It really helps model our skills. I am learning so much. But
for now, I still have a huge load of work to do and so much little
free time to do it in!
All the bananas!
Burning purfume experiment
Hard at work in science
Maths lesson
Science lesson
Toms huge flame!
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