So, the time has come to start my PGCE. Its been a tough year leading up to this point - final year of my degree and two emergency operations - including an appendectomy that forced me to take my final exams late - so now I get to start my course without actually knowing if I am on it or not! But, supposing I am in, here are the basics: I'm 24 yrs old, I took three gap years, where I worked, travelled and volunteered. I will have (finally) completed my degree in Business Management and Enterprise at DMU (I really wouldn't recommend based on my experience with them this year) and I'm just about to start on my PGCE in Primary Education at Cambridge. This blog is my first ever blog, and (providing I remember to write it) should be the year long following of my experiences. Be they good, bad or indifferent, or possibly just a daily reminder for myself of what I have done. It could be a stark warning or a great advertisement, only time will tell.
Tomorrow I start on what is called 'home-based school experience'. It's not the same for every course, but for me it is 5 days in a school in which I have not attended as either staff or pupil. For this I have chosen to go to a school in London - about 75miles from where I actually live. Why London? Well, firstly, I've never studied or worked here so it covers those criteria, but more importantly for my experience, I have spent the last two years volunteering and working in a local village school - a very quaint, middle class, C of E, just over 100 pupils village school. So this school, will be a new challenge - its not a bad school, but it is not what I have been used to. Many of the children speak English as a second language, and others speak no English at all. Further, the school is about triple the size of the one I've been working in, and the area is, well, it's London it's a massive city, it's not my little villages.
So, that's why I'm here. The challenge, the requirement and the opportunity.
Tomorrow it begins, bright and early. Nerves will probably hit in then, but for now, I am quite excited about this new part to my life.
S x
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