As I heard a child in my tutor group dictate this wonderful quote from the works of Roald Dahl, I couldn’t help but smile as I considered how incredibly quickly my NQT year flew past, how much I have had to do, and how quickly things within a school setting can change.
I began this job an ambitious but uncertain NQT and now here I sit, merely a year on, as second in charge of faculty – no longer the mentee but a mentor for my own student teacher who is embarking on her own teacher training qualification.
As you reflect on your first term, I offer to you the same advice that I offered to her, but through the words of some literary greats.
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