Kids love stickers and they are a great way to keep them encouraged with the work that they do.
Using the amazing Bitmoji app I have created my own stickers so they are personal and so are even more exciting to the children when they receive one.
I would love to hear your suggestions on sticker options, please get in touch.
Thanks for reading my blog, I really do appreciate it.
This is the first post on my new blog. I am new to the Instagram Teacher community and I am enjoying it loads. I will definitely be taking inspiration from many many teachers on there and so thought I need to contribute to this lovely community via my own blog as well as my insta page @teachingmrsallen
I am just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates. I welcome any suggestions on topics you would like me to write about.
P.S I imagine this blog getting more interesting once I start my SCITT!
This post is to catch you up on where I am at so far …
I have never really wanted to be a teacher before, I did consider it when I was thinking about future careers in high school (as you do) but dismissed it as it was of no interest, despite my mum being a primary school teacher at the time. It was not until I had my son in 2013 that my interest in child development started to grow. Also, my confidence of how to be around children was realised from having my son, as I had just never grown up around young children, I think my son might have been the first new baby I had ever held!
I later decided I wanted to make some steps towards changing my career, so In 2016 I did a Level 3 Early Years Educator course part time, alongside my full time job at the council, which was completely unrelated to children or education. I really enjoyed the course as it involved some work experience which I did with a local childminder.
Following the childcare course, I started to look into what jobs I could go into with this new qualification. It seemed my options were a nursery practitioner or a teaching assistant, which I know I would have loved, but they just did not pay enough compared to where I was working already.
Jumping to October 2018, I decided to bite the bullet and apply to do a PGCE with a SCITT approach – I had a couple of interviews which were very nerve wracking (more on them later). In January 2019 I was offered a place at Keele University. Go Me!
My offer, of course, was on condition that I pass the Numeracy and Literacy Skills test at an official test centre. I just wanted to get this out of the way as it was the only thing potentially getting in between my new future career. I put lots of practice into my numeracy skills as I was least confidence with this one, I did very little revision on my literacy. I took both tests on the same day in Birmingham and thankfully! I passed both! Go Me! again.
Since fully securing my place on the course, I have had some info sent through from Keele University about a Welcome meeting and an induction day prior to the course starting on 29th August.
So this is where I am upto so far. I will post more soon about my welcome meeting, and make sure you click to follow my blog to keep an eye out for a post on my induction day which will be on 12th July 2019.
Teaching Mrs Allen 