Join our virtual PGCE Information SessionMeet our PGCE Secondary team at The University of Manchester in our upcoming virtual Information Session this December.About the eventOur PGCE Secondary Information Session will provide you with a wealth of information on...
Category: Alumni Stories
Starting out – first half-term as an ECT
By Lily Middleton - PGCE ML trainee 2020-2021It’s mid-October and I’m isolating. My delightful Year 7 form has come down with Covid-19- it started at one side of the classroom, spread to the other, and then, predictably, to me (despite my very best efforts). To be...
How can teachers engage boys in gender equality lessons
By Katharine Roddy, PGCE ML 2018-2019I completed my PGCE in Modern Languages at the University of Manchester in 2019. I am now in my third year working at Bolton School Boys' Division, teaching French and German (and rock climbing!).In spring 2021, I launched a...
Placement advice from Clara, PGCE ML trainee 2020-2021
Get to know the rest of the trainees in the school. They will be going through the same as you! I used to have lunch in school around two times a week with the other trainees and it was lovely.Get a planner and start using it! Write EVERYTHING down. With the...
The PGCE experience during strange times: Lily Middleton
Things Can Seem Scary, but turn out wellIt is late September and you've realised what you've really signed up for. The number of comfy Uni days are declining fast and there is increasing talk in your PGCE WhatsApp group of where you'll be placed for your first ever,...
A’liya Lulat – Mathematics trainee and teacher, 2017-18 cohort
Dear friends,We are very sorry to announce the news that A’liya Lulat, a Mathematics trainee from our 2017–18 cohort, has passed away this week. A’liya was 26 years old. Our thoughts are with all of A’liya’s family and friends at this time.Siân Morgan was A'liya's...
Social responsibility award winner – Najma Mohammed
Secondary mathematics trainee Najma Mohammed created her own website and used social media to share her passion for maths, focusing particularly on providing additional support for female BAME students.Due to the mass school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s...
Focusing on pupils with medical needs
My name is Georgia Grant and I currently work as the lead support of medical needs (Physical and Sensory SEN Pathway) at Manchester Academy School. I completed Secondary Science (Biology) PGCE at The University of Manchester in 2019, following Human Biology...
Currently completing second term as an NQT
Where are they now? Catching up with our former trainees in their NQT year It’s been a whirlwind! Since completing my PGCE year in June last year, so much has happenedand it’s almost surreal to find myself half way through my NQT year here at All Saints Catholic...
PGCE Business Ed Alumni has PM to class…
Congratulations to former PGCE Business Education trainee Paul Fair [2017/18] for arranging a visit to his business studies students from the Prime Minister, Theresa May.GCSE pupils from Years 10 and 11 had done some prior work around how Brexit may affect business...
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