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My first parents’ evening

Parental engagement NQTs
Our NQT diarist recounts her first parents' evening and open day under the spotlight. It's all about the chairs apparently...

My first experience of an open day/evening and what an experience it has been! As autumn continues to close in I left the house in darkness at 6am, a little unaware that I was going to struggle to see daylight all day. As I returned at 10pm, the sun had certainly disappeared to sleep and I was surprisingly excited to get into bed myself, even if it did mean setting the 5:30am alarm once again for the following morning.

I felt trapped in a goldfish bowl all day and parents came in at some of the worst possible moments, or so it seemed. 

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