PGCE - Current Students Thread

Quick question for PGCE Primary students who started from Sept 2014 (2014/15 academic year). Did you get an ITT bursary? I've been checking here http://www.education.gov.uk/get-into-teaching/funding/postgraduate-funding and with my first class degree, I should get £9,000. But this table is for 2015/16 academic year. Is it not in effect this year? I ask because I've secured a place to start Sept 2015 but there's an opportunity to start in February 2015. Feb would be classed as 2014/15 academic year. I'd love to start in Feb but if starting early means losing £9,000 this might affect my decision.

Quick question for PGCE Primary students who started from Sept 2014 (2014/15 academic year). Did you get an ITT bursary? I've been checking here http://www.education.gov.uk/get-into-teaching/funding/postgraduate-funding and with my first class degree, I should get £9,000. But this table is for 2015/16 academic year. Is it not in effect this year? I ask because I've secured a place to start Sept 2015 but there's an opportunity to start in February 2015. Feb would be classed as 2014/15 academic year. I'd love to start in Feb but if starting early means losing £9,000 this might affect my decision.

Primary do get a 4k bursary but I'm not sure for the current year whether or not that goes up to 9,000 for a first. I presume it does as it does with my subject and other non priority subjects.

I've still not started my placement yet. Did some team teaching with someone in my class and was going to take a GCSE class this week but couldn't do it as been signed off by my GP; however these hours were just to cover for a teacher whose off. I'm worried I'm not going to get enough hours to pass the course and wondering if I'm just wasting my time.

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I feel quite similar to you. I have had quite a lot of absence, and I'm due to have even more for an operation. Most people on my course have been teaching loads, but I think maybe in total I've taught about ten hours so far....when I should have been doing seven a week for the past month or so. The next couple of weeks won't add much to this either, for various reasons.

I feel extremely ill equipped for the next placement. I'm dreading it.

Sorry to hear that, when do you start your next placement?

I was meant to start it early October however my mentor went on bereavement leave. She's been back since and I've emailed her quite a few times which she didn't reply to and managed to get hold of her once on the phone (she said she'd ring me back but she didn't). A few people on my course are in the same boat as me.

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Early October? So do you have three placements? I have two placements...first one is the one I'm on now and that's until Christmas, and I start the next on Feb.

Sorry to hear about your mentor. It is an awkward one. At least you're not alone with this. I think schools and unis must have seen these types of things happen before!

I'm having a logistical nightmare trying to organise my observation. Which has been made even worse by me sending my really important-must-read-now-and-reply-fast e-mail to the wrong bloody e-mail address, so I was waiting all day for a reply and getting angry he wasn't replying and I hadn't even sent it to him. I feel like a flipping idiot! I blame outlook's "check names" feature.

Hi, I've been told I will fail my first placement , if I pass my second placement would I get the QTS? or would I need to repeat my first placement?

Anyone know?

Sorry to hear that! Have you had any feedback as to why?

I'm pretty sure that at my uni you redo 1st placement when you would have done 2nd.

Hi,

I haven't started a PGCE yet but I'm planning to do one in Primary Education after my undergraduate degree. Is there anything I can be doing now to maximise my chances of being accepted on a course? I'm already looking into volunteering with a Rainbows group and working with kids at a summer camp. Is there anything else you'd recommend? I'm not looking into work experience in schools just yet as i'm only in the first year of my degree, and as i've volunteered before and know I want to do primary ed there's no point doing any more work experience until further down the line.

Many thanks in advance for any useful advice! :-)

Hi all,

I'm an NQT who just qualified from a BE.d in Primary Ed this year. During my training I noticed there wasn't many good websites for trainee primary school teachers (apart from TES/resource sites).

I'm putting together a professional site to help trainee's and would love to know what kind of things you'd like to see on there. E.g. advice on observations, getting into Uni, personal statements, lesson plan ideas, display photos, downloads.

Any feedback would be appreciated and I'll make sure to come back and provide a link to the website when its ready

Steph

Please quote me so I can see your reply!!!

Could you be more elaborate? Did she had mental health problems or some sort of psychopathic behaviour?