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Diary of an NQT: Embracing the extra-curricular

External competitions and challenges can be a great way to engage students and promote your subject, as our NQT diarist hopes to find out

This week I have invested most of my energy in catching up with day-to-day errands. My days feel much calmer at the moment and as a result I have managed to blast through most of my planning and marking.

With this in mind, and with a few spare moments, I decided to have a look through my targets for my NQT year in order to see where I am up to with the various goals that I (rather optimistically) set myself last year. I’ve already mentioned a few of these in previous diary entries for SecEd.

One goal in particular is on my mind at the moment: supporting the wider work of my department. So, where am I up to? Well, I am focusing on contributing a bit more to the department by organising some extra-curricular activities. Last week, I spent a few days researching activities and local competitions that were suitable for both key stage 3 and 4.

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