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NQT Special Edition: Advice from year 2

Every week, SecEd’s NQT diarist reports on their trials and tribulations in the classroom. For this special edition, we asked last year’s diarist, who is now in their second year at the chalkface, to offer some advice to this year’s NQTs

So you have survived your first half-term – almost!

It will have been a slog. During the last three months, you will have had just one week of “rest” (read: marking, planning, sending emails, making resources...). But the end of term is nigh and soon there will be just two terms left, not that you are counting.

You are a real teacher

You are starting to feel like a real teacher and the good news is that you feel that way because you are!

It is often very easy to still feel like a trainee in your NQT year – you have immersed yourself in your new school and you are still learning the ropes and at the same time you are trying to ground yourself and get students used to who you are and your expectations.

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