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End of September stocktake

NQTs
After the first four weeks of term, NQT mentor David Torn offers new teachers some tips.

First, congratulations on reaching your first milestone – the end of September! Not only are you likely to be exhausted, but also exhilarated. 

For many of you the last four weeks would have been the biggest learning curve of your life and the good news is that there is plenty more where that came from! The run up to half-term and then Christmas will prove just as busy. 

Here is some advice that I find myself, in my role as an NQT mentor, often giving out to new teachers at this time of year.

By now you should know all of the names of the students in the classes you teach which will help you in establishing yourself, but don’t panic if there are still some students, or indeed classes, who are pushing the boundaries. 

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