PGCE Primary/Secondary Chat Thread 20/21

Hi,I've applied to the PGCE Primary in Cardiff Met. I have an interview next week

Any advice or tips would be extremely helpful, thank you. ☺️

Hi All,

Thought I make a thread for those who are interviewing/accepted offer/place onto PGCE courses and to network before the course starts.

Introduce yourselves and the course that applied for as well. I applied and accepted PGCE Secondary Computing at MMU this September

Hey

If you don't mind me asking whats your undegrad in? As I had a small computer science topic on my undergrad course but never considered applying for it.

Ive been given a conditional for PGCE Primary with QTS (also at Manchester University) so just need to decide between both. Feel like choosing MMU mainly because they seem to respond to emails quicker.

Application/interview:
Felt it went fairly well, know about wider issues. Video call. I feel the process is more lenient this year ad there's no skills test and its not face to face.

Concerns:
Placement travel.
Mental Health - stress/anxiety and depression but mainly caused by being in jobs I haven't enjoyed.

Hi, I've been offered a conditional place in Cardiff and I've accepted so just waiting to hear back from them 😊

Hi, I may be on the complete wrong thread but I’m looking into pgce’s for next year (trying to be organised) I’m in my 3rd year of early childhood studies now (open university) and I work at a school school full time as a TA/1-1 I’m wondering how I can go about doing my teachers training/ Pgce with qt while staying at the place I work as I am reluctant to leave? I haven’t discuses this with the head yet as I’m not sure what I’m really discussing without some help. Hoping someone can shed light on how i could do this, if not I’m wondering if I go to uni and do my Pgce could I used my main placement as the school and just volunteer for a year and then do another placement a few weeks somewhere else but primarily want to use that school as my main placement and not to leave if I can go about it that way. Any advice would be extremely helpful as I’ve looked on Google and don’t understand.Thanks in advance!!