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NQT Special Edition: Are you ready for the chalkface?

For trainee teachers across the country, September and the start of the NQT year is on the horizon. Sophie Howells seeks some advice from this year’s NQT cohort to help you prepare. She also urges this year’s NQTs to ensure they get some proper rest this summer

Being an NQT is undeniably tough. The Education Support Partnership’s most recent annual helpline report shows that the majority of calls we have received over the past year involve staff who have been working in education for under five years.

For those coming to the end of the NQT year, you may be starting to reflect as you come up for air. Exhausted and elated, you are nearly there. You will have been through an incredible, upward learning curve and no doubt experienced plenty of unexpected highs and lows along the way.

For those looking ahead to starting their NQT year, you might be feeling trepidation and nervousness as well as great anticipation as you prepare to take ownership of your first classroom and make your mark every day.

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