No School Experience

What subject are you hoping to apply for?

I used holiday days from my job to use for school experience. I had three days in total and the uni were fine with that. I did do secondary Physics though so something more competitive will probably want more. Although I have girlguiding experience and it's really been beneficial when applying for jobs - shows you actually like children!

Your guiding experience is valuable part of your application but I'm not sure it's enough for primary. What's your degree in?

I would email the course your looking at and see if they say it's enough. Worse case scenario, and they say no, 1) could you book a day off work? 2) are you flexible about the age group you want to teach and/or get experience in? There may be specialist schools in your area that are open in the evening/weekend but they probably won't align with primary sadly.

Thank you for your reply. My original degree was psychology. I'm thinking of transferring my credits to the open uni and I've been emailing unis to see if they'll accept my course to do a postgraduate in PGCE primary education. I had forgotten I've ran out of student finance for a full course so credit transfer may be the only option. Hopefully while I study I can get primary experience to strengthen my postgrad application. It will take the same amount of time but just will need to take a different path.

If you are doing a PGCE then they (student finance England) restart your tuition fee allowance, at least that is what student finance said to me when I called a month or two back. Give them a call its best to find out right!