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One month in: An NQT report

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Like many others, Jenny Turner began life at the chalkface as an NQT in September. One month in, she discusses her ups and downs so far, the key lessons she has learnt, and her priorities for the rest of the term.

As I write, I have now completed my first 25 school days of being an NQT and I can honestly say it has been completely different to how I imagined it would be. In some ways this month has been far harder than my entire PGCE year, but then being a “real teacher” is a totally different experience to being a trainee.

My school year started almost a week before that of everybody else I trained with. This meant that I was the first to face the new-school nerves. It also meant that during those few days I was bombarded with questions about “how it really is” from my anxious PGCE colleagues. 

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