PGCE 2014 Applications (NOT FOR SPECIFIC INTERVIEW TASK DISCUSSIONS)

Best of luck to all those with upcoming interviews and applications.

I had an interview at IoE last week. Only 4 of us turned up out of 8/9. They have 6 places left. The interview was very relaxed. The 1-1 interview consisted of just going over our application. No questions about why you wanted to teach etc. The only part of the day that I let myself down on was the presentation, as the person before me did a great presentation, and I got nervous as a result, which showed. Shaky hands, crackling voice, scribbling handwriting on the flip board, and I ended before the time was up. Was kicking myself afterwards.

They said they'll let us know by Wednesday. I'm not expecting an offer, but am keeping my fingers crossed none-the-less.

Conditional offer! Speechless.

Awaiting an emailing confirming the conditions.

Decided extremely late to apply for PGCE primary this year in the school direct route. I have only a weeks work exp so I very much doubt I'm gonna get an offer this year but lo, it is worth trying. Really confused by the personal statement thing, why are there two boxes which are essentially asking you to do the same thing.

Conditional offer! Speechless.

Awaiting an emailing confirming the conditions.

I am reapplying, glad there are people in the same boat! I had got accepted onto a Primary PGCE last year but couldnt begin due to health reasons, so reapplying this year. Trying to gain further experience in a school, but I agree, it's a long task to just volunteer!

Hey everyone,
I've accepted an offer onto the primary pgce at Manchester university!
Gonna be commuting from Liverpool which I'm not too pleased about though haha.
Haven't heard anything from the university other than feedback on my tests...
Anybody else off to Manchester?
Good luck to everyone applying or waiting on news

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post but I need some advice.

I've been thinking of applying for a PGCE primary with MFL course since I'm French and it is my first language (I've seen courses saying that if it's your first language you don't need a degree in the language to be considered). However, I'm gonna be starting the 3rd year of my degree (in chemistry) next september and my academic record isn't really that great. I have sufficient GCSEs and A-levels but my grades this past year at uni haven't really been that great, I didn't do so well in my exams and I have two resits to do this august. I still have 60% of my degree remaining and I can still pull up my grades but I'm worried because I really struggled this year with motivating myself to study and I feel like I lost all interest in my degree subject :/ I'm hoping to graduate with at a 2.2, a 2.1 is still possible but it's not so realistic..
I have volunteered with Girl Guiding this past year and I also interned at a supplementary school for 6 months. I'm also looking to do some shadowing in a mainstream school for next september so I can also put this in my personal statement. Do you think I have a shot at a place on a PGCE primary course with a not so great academic record? I'm afraid that they will see that I haven't done well this past year and completely write me off as a result. I know the personal statement and passion for teaching is the most important and I have already started on my first draft and I'm hoping to send off my application as early as possible.

If you have any advice I'd be extremely grateful! (sorry for the long text)

Graduated today and came home to an interview offer on Friday at 9am! Gah. So excited but worried I won't have much time to prep for it.

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Graduated today and came home to an interview offer on Friday at 9am! Gah. So excited but worried I won't have much time to prep for it.

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Congratulations on graduating, and receiving an interview offer. I received my interview offer early last week, had an interview on Friday and was offered a place on Monday. You'll be fine. As you're doing Computing also, I'd imagine there will only be a few of you at the interview. There were 3 others at mine.

Best of luck!

I had the same thing. Got a call on Friday afternoon, was interviewed Monday morning. It's tough to get everything organised but worth it. Good luck!

Thank you!

Congrats on the offer! I'm doubting it'll be too busy and the only thing that I'm worried about is the group interview.

It being at 9am means I get to stay over at my uni housemates' house tomorrow night and I can't wait to see them again and I've missed Nottingham for so long so fingers crossed!



Ooh. I feel better knowing others have been in the same position - seems very rushed. In the process of tidying up my teaching portfolio about observations. I'm hoping that seeing 15 classes across three days makes them less terrified about me not meeting the 10 day requirement. They must be willing to work something out if they know that I haven't completed them but are still willing to interview me+

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Have they informed you what the group exercise entails? For mine, we were each given a card with 5 items listed, i.e. FTP, Binary, Visual Basic, CPU, GUI, and had to describe them without using their name for others to guess - basically charades. It was quite fun actually. Especially as the interviewer got involved and played alongside us.

Have fun visiting your friends, but don't get plastered the night before the interview. Nothing worse than a full day assessment with a throbbing hangover.

Have just received my welcome letter and checklist after confirming my secondary PGCE offer. One of the 'tasks' is to spend 5 days in a primary school before the start of the course. They've given 1 week in September to do this also. As I'm late to the game, it's certainly going to be difficult to accomplish, with the majority of schools breaking up in 2 days. Hopefully they're lenient on this for undersubscribed subjects with late applications.

I'll start firing off some emails tomorrow to all of the local primary schools!