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Original post by S27
What does everyone wear on the uni days? Does every dress like they do at undergrad or is it more professional? Don't want to overdo it on my first uni day :hat:


I usually wore joggers/jeans/casual
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Original post by Airfairy
Totally casual - anything you want. One guy came in a suit and looked weird :lol: .


Original post by Samus2
I usually wore joggers/jeans/casual


Ah thank you so much. I was worried about wearing trainers but it sounds fine. lmao at the guy in the suit, I wasn't going to go that far, maybe just chinos and a nice shirt.
Original post by S27
What does everyone wear on the uni days? Does every dress like they do at undergrad or is it more professional? Don't want to overdo it on my first uni day :hat:


You start off fairly lovely and then bit by bit it becomes an achievement to be wearing something without coffee on it. And then everyone stops wearing make up. And then it turns into almost clean tshirt and jeans day. And by the end if you're wearing clothes in a vaguely correct sort of way then that is an achievement.
SO

How the hell am I supposed to organise this damn file? :tongue: :redface:

I have been absolutely loving my little bubble at uni and on Monday I start my first placement aaarrrrggghhhhh... I know it will all work out fine but I had hoped to have this file ready to go by then.
Original post by S27
What does everyone wear on the uni days? Does every dress like they do at undergrad or is it more professional? Don't want to overdo it on my first uni day :hat:


It's entirely casual, and defintiely as the year wears on those who have had particularly horrible weeks will be lucky to even be wearing matching shoes XD

Original post by redmel1621
SO

How the hell am I supposed to organise this damn file? :tongue: :redface:

I have been absolutely loving my little bubble at uni and on Monday I start my first placement aaarrrrggghhhhh... I know it will all work out fine but I had hoped to have this file ready to go by then.


Every provider is different, but here's what I did (IoE Physics with Maths):

* Have a separate folder for each class you teach. Stick a seating plan on the back and take it to every lesson. Inside, print off every lesson plan as you write it, along with the resources. (This means everything is easy to find, you never walk into a lesson without resources, you can check their names discretely, and come the end of the year any evidence they request can instantly be retrieved).
* A folder for general professional studies - lectures you have at university and any you have at school not directly related to your subject.
* A folder for subject university work - generally split into evidence that I had worked on subject knowledge (notes, past papers etc.) and readings I had completed and annotated (this was helpful with my essays, more than for evidence).
* A good teachers planner, to make notes and keep with you at all times.
* My university gave me a folder for my observations and a set of the teacher's standards to highlight as I met them, if you don't have this another folder is probably worthwhile.

But there are loads of ways to do it. and right now it's probably best just to follow whatever guidelines the universit have given you. I would heartily recommend the separate folder for each class, though - it was so useful I made them for this year (NQT year) too.
Original post by redmel1621
SO

How the hell am I supposed to organise this damn file? :tongue: :redface:

I have been absolutely loving my little bubble at uni and on Monday I start my first placement aaarrrrggghhhhh... I know it will all work out fine but I had hoped to have this file ready to go by then.


I think you mean fileS! Get them sorted now while life is easy - i had a lever arch for each class with every lesson plan, resources and evals. 1 x file for data, seating plans. 1 for subject knowledge, 1 for professional studies, 1 for every thing else (assignments, extra curricular, reflective journal, annotated school policied, inset). 12 lever arches altogether, for school direct.
Original post by Bobble1987
I think you mean fileS! Get them sorted now while life is easy - i had a lever arch for each class with every lesson plan, resources and evals. 1 x file for data, seating plans. 1 for subject knowledge, 1 for professional studies, 1 for every thing else (assignments, extra curricular, reflective journal, annotated school policied, inset). 12 lever arches altogether, for school direct.


And one of those small suitcases on wheels...
Original post by hana&feather
For my specialism I'm doing 4 weeks in a secondary school after Feb half-term! And we'll need to arrange that ourselves.


Good luck with that, I don't envy you.

We have to organise this one week placement ourselves, and I have no idea how to do it. I'm thinking of waiting until I know my first primary placement, and finding a secondary school in the same area. We know which borough we're in, but not the school yet. At least if I know I'm in Town X, I can target my search a bit better and tailor a request letter rather than doing a scattershot approach.

Three weeks until our first placement, and I have no idea where it is. The borough we're in is...challenging, apparently. And it makes a big difference to travel time whether we're in the 'hub' town or a smaller one...eep.
Original post by Carnationlilyrose
And one of those small suitcases on wheels...


I had somebody mock my little suitcase with wheels until I opened it up and out burst 60 perfectly marked exercise books :love:
Original post by ParadoxSocks
I had somebody mock my little suitcase with wheels until I opened it up and out burst 60 perfectly marked exercise books :love:


Let no one mock the little suitcase on wheels...:angry:
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Did all of you find out about your bursary before you started, I start next week and ive not heard anything past i may be eligible :frown: If i can't get a bursary I'm not sure how i can pay to live without it. This is FE btw
I had one teaching file per placement divided into classes. My university didn't require our teaching files as part of our assessment.
I say teaching files, I didn't actually have anything in them: found it a waste of time tbh
Hey all - thought I'd introduce myself. I'm doing RE secondary through a SCITT provider. I've spent the past week or so observing but already have so much to do! Think of getting myself one of those little suitcases on wheels too, my bad is already far too rammed! Any one have any idea on how exactly your supposed to put together a GPS folder? My SCITT is being vague and saying collect evidence of training... what does that even mean? Practical tips please!
Original post by shanzy_91
Hey all - thought I'd introduce myself. I'm doing RE secondary through a SCITT provider. I've spent the past week or so observing but already have so much to do! Think of getting myself one of those little suitcases on wheels too, my bad is already far too rammed! Any one have any idea on how exactly your supposed to put together a GPS folder? My SCITT is being vague and saying collect evidence of training... what does that even mean? Practical tips please!


lesson plans, lessons obs, your own obs of other staff, seating plans, worksheets, photocopies of student work to show your marking
Original post by shanzy_91
Hey all - thought I'd introduce myself. I'm doing RE secondary through a SCITT provider. I've spent the past week or so observing but already have so much to do! Think of getting myself one of those little suitcases on wheels too, my bad is already far too rammed! Any one have any idea on how exactly your supposed to put together a GPS folder? My SCITT is being vague and saying collect evidence of training... what does that even mean? Practical tips please!


Assuming this is a folder for assessing you, a good way to do it if you have no guidelines is print off the full teaching standards and have a section for each one. As you move through the year add evidence that related to each bit to the relevant section. Then you can easily see that you've got evidence for them all, and which ones are lacking as you move through. Just don't panic as you won't have evidence for some of them until much later in the year.

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Original post by shanzy_91
Hey all - thought I'd introduce myself. I'm doing RE secondary through a SCITT provider. I've spent the past week or so observing but already have so much to do! Think of getting myself one of those little suitcases on wheels too, my bad is already far too rammed! Any one have any idea on how exactly your supposed to put together a GPS folder? My SCITT is being vague and saying collect evidence of training... what does that even mean? Practical tips please!


We spent 3 hours talking about the prof standards and we got a chance to look at some graduates' files. While we are in Primary it's possibly similar for secondary. We were told to get 9 sections for each of the standards and subdivide into each sub-section - a plastic pocket for each sub-section, and start collecting evidence as we go along (there'll be a selecting process towards the end to choose the best evidence. We'll write for each sub-section how the evidence show that we meet the standards). Echoing others, evidence can be lesson plans, observation notes, children's work, classroom display, code of conduct, uni's comment on professionalism, etc. We're expected to have something for 8 sub-standards by the end of our first placement (working with one child and groups), then getting 50% by Feb half-term. Some standards say 'consistent' and the evidence for that should be collected over a period of time, etc.

On top of it my uni wants a teaching file with school + class details, personal learning journal, all lesson plans + resources, assessments, medium and LT plans, observation notes etc. for each placement. That is of course in addition to our subject portfolios.

That was a daunting afternoon: one person hasn't returned since it seems. So I'm a bit surprised that your provider hasn't talked about it in depth yet. We do have a book on our list by Achieving QTS series, which explains the standards very well and has some case examples - but I haven't got the time to read it properly!

Those trolleys are excellent, unlessunpopular like me you use the London Underground - proved to be very unpopular and hazardous with my steering skill.
Starting placement on Monday, really excited but quite nervous! I'm in KS1 but don't know which year yet. Anyone got some words of wisdom? :-)
Original post by emily131
Starting placement on Monday, really excited but quite nervous! I'm in KS1 but don't know which year yet. Anyone got some words of wisdom? :-)


Just breathe and accept that the first few weeks feel insane. You'll be fine!
Original post by tory88
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Random question. Some of my uni choices would allow me to do physics with maths, others are just physics. Is it fine for my to have a personal statement that is entirely related to physics when applying potentially for physics with maths courses. I dont really have space in my personal statement to start mentioning mathematics.
I've managed to catch a cold just from uni before even setting foot in school on Monday :frown:

My uni hasn't spoken much about teaching files/evidence for the standards so I've just set up my folder as above with sections for each standard and plastic pockets ready for evidence. Then a separate folder for class lists, seating plans, lesson plans, resources etc. Might go the one folder per class route when I find out how many classes I'm going to have.

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