PGCE - Current Students Thread

Ah this thread is so quiet now! We're all far too busy!

Am i right in thinking most of you will change placement in the new year?

Haven't been on this thread since the summer. The course is going fine, work etc is manageable just homesick which isn't so nice! Try not to over think everything I feel like this thread painted the demands of this course so much worst than they actually are!

Positivity is key for us and others who are planning to apply to teaching.

A week in uni and then it's the holidays. The new year will be much kinder to us all and the mornings will soon be bright again, motivation!

I'm sure this thread is much quieter this year. I think all us last year were massive whiners!! Haha

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I know exactly what you mean - the picture I got of the PGCE was much worse than I've found it! Sure I work most weekends, and I'm tired and looking forward to the holidays... but I'm only stressed out periodically, when I have a whole series of lessons to completely re-plan because the first one didn't work! Other than that, I'm really enjoying myself. Can't wait for the Nativity play tomorrow!!!!!!

Hi guys,

I'm doing a pgce primary and my university does 3 placements. I've been with ks2 (year 6) since September and I just found out that I'll be in year 2.

I'm slightly anxious about teaching ks1 as I have more experience within ks2 and I much refer teaching upper ks2.

Any advice tips about ks1 would be much appreciated, especially with regards to phonics?

Thanks in advance [



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Phonics isn't too bad. If anything I'd say the main challenge is keeping it interesting and fast enough as it is very repetitive.

Your school will likely follow some sort of scheme, it may even have a full plan for each session. There will be lots of support so don't panic!

I'd recommend buying a copy of Letters and Sounds if you can find one online -it lists all the graphemes to teach in a good order, lists correspondences between phonemes and graphemes plus example words using different phonemes (good for when thinking up activities, you don't have to spend ages thinking of words). It also has lots of suggested activities to use. You can plan a whole week or more of sessions in a short time by just rotating through different activities.

The sessions will just be a series of short games to recap then learn something new and practice using it.

Don't worry about the terminology, it can seem confusing but it doesn't take long to pick up. I found the book "Reading Under Control" was very good at explaining it if you can find that in the library.

If you struggle with timing like I did at first, just remember that the NEW content is most important. If you need to cut the recap short, do.

Good luck! KS1 is lovely... They are eager to learn. They like being outside. Read them lots of stories. Remember that some of them wont have communication down yet so look at the whole picture, not just what they say. And remember they will have recently come from early years so even in a free play, independent focussed KS1 settings there is gonna be more structure that they are still getting used to.

Xxx

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If you hand in a PGCE assignment late does it mean you will be capped at the pass percentage? (50%)

Depends on your uni policy.

Does anyone know when NQT jobs start to appear online? Just had a bit of a look (I got an NUT job finding booklet through the post) and it doesn't seem like there's anything yet!

Does anyone know when NQT jobs start to appear online? Just had a bit of a look (I got an NUT job finding booklet through the post) and it doesn't seem like there's anything yet!