And I'm sorry for that dear reader. As I'm sure you can imagine, things get hectic fast in your first year of teaching.
A number of years on, many things have happened. I worked my butt off that year and did achieve my goal of becoming Head of Drama within my 3 year goal.
I also have put on 3 fantasticly (and 1 slightly less) successful shows. Got my first set of GCSE boys through their exams. Got married and had a baby!
As my maternity leave is coming to an end and I look forward to starting back into teaching. I hope to reignite both my passion for teaching and my confidence in a profession I feel I have missed some pretty massive changes in!
I went on Maternity Leave In November last year (2015) and will be returning on August 1st 2016 (so luckily have the rest of the summer holidays to get my head around everything!) Therefore, I will have had just 9 short months off, and yet, I can't help but feel that extensive changes have already paved our way forward in the teaching world. A new (female!) PM. An impending separation from the union in our continent. A world torn apart by fear and hatred. An education system on the brink of collapse and no real indication on how we are going to be moving forward on any of them!
A brave new world we are heading into. Feels like NQT year all over again!
A number of years on, many things have happened. I worked my butt off that year and did achieve my goal of becoming Head of Drama within my 3 year goal.
I also have put on 3 fantasticly (and 1 slightly less) successful shows. Got my first set of GCSE boys through their exams. Got married and had a baby!
As my maternity leave is coming to an end and I look forward to starting back into teaching. I hope to reignite both my passion for teaching and my confidence in a profession I feel I have missed some pretty massive changes in!
I went on Maternity Leave In November last year (2015) and will be returning on August 1st 2016 (so luckily have the rest of the summer holidays to get my head around everything!) Therefore, I will have had just 9 short months off, and yet, I can't help but feel that extensive changes have already paved our way forward in the teaching world. A new (female!) PM. An impending separation from the union in our continent. A world torn apart by fear and hatred. An education system on the brink of collapse and no real indication on how we are going to be moving forward on any of them!
A brave new world we are heading into. Feels like NQT year all over again!
