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NQT Special: Lessons from the second year

NQTs
SecEd’s NQT diarist from last year is now nearing the end of her second year of teaching. We asked her to pass on to the nation’s NQTs the lessons she has learnt this year.

The end is in sight for you; six weeks of blissful child-free fun (unless of course you have children of your own).

As the summer holidays beckon, you may have started to think about the coming academic year. Perhaps, like me, you have applied for a new job and are thinking about how to make the best impression. Or maybe you are staying at your current school and are currently being drafted in to use your new-found year 11-free down time in various productive ways!

If you are at a particularly organised school, you may have heard murmurs from senior leaders as they start to think about organising timetables for next year – and you may be waiting with anticipation to find out which classes you carry forward and which you lose (praying that you can finally wave goodbye to that naughty year 9 group and crossing your fingers that you can keep hold of that lovely class you made so much progress with this year).

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