Re:nqt Year

[ruby_tuesday]

That's tricky as sometimes visiting a school can really inform your application from and also help you to decide whether you still want to apply, though I know it can be time consuming and expensive! Keep applying but make sure you really explain why you want to work in that particular school. I've seen some shocking applications that don't even refer to the school at all!

[audrey]

Hi all! It's been a long time since I posted as I've been just working at such a pace re NQT, this has left me no time for ANYTHING else
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I will add to this - when I was on supply and finished a short term contract, the work dried up and I too marketed myself for supply and mainly to get known again, to remind people that I was still looking for a job in order to start my NQT year. I held off from a particular school due to its reputation. This was the school that I ended up doing supply at the one that I am still doing my NQT period at.

What I will say is that sometimes you really do have to be adaptable and not just go with certain choices as work is hard to come by, especially teaching jobs.

I wish you all the luck in the world. It is so hard, I know as I have been there and I still don't know what will happen once my induction period has been completed. But above all DON'T GIVE UP
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[mary25]

Hi

I am soo frustrated for you! I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IT FEELS LIKE. I too qualified in 2005 and have been applying for jobs ever since then. I have done supply since then on and off and I am still doing it now. I am bit
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to only find out that you are supposed to only do supply for 5 terms as I have been doing between 1 - 3 days a week since 2005 with a year off in 2008. I just wondered if you have applied for jobs via the primary pool as this is where I have just secured my first NQT teaching post. If not I would highyly reccomend it.

Good luck!

[Wendy]

Thank you for the support Mary, Sadly we don't have a pool system here. If you cannot find a regular school for supply then there are two or three agencies to go through but I never got any work through them. Ironically it was a supply agency that reported me. I have to say that at the moment I am quite contented to have a rest from filling in application forms - no stress!!