Time will tell.

I can't believe I've made it to my last term as an NQT. I am almost an official teacher. Who would have thought? One more observation to go and 7 weeks until the end of the school year.

This has been a difficult year, however I have learnt so much about myself and how I can continue to grow as a person. There is so much that I need to do now, especially as this final term will fly by. I liked to be organised and those who know me, I hate writing a list of things to do because I need to get them done immediately. I like to be prepared and I try to have the resources in place. I know I can't leave things to the last minute because that throws me out of sync and I don't want my class or adults I work with to be let down. I might need to work a little more at this.

We have squeezed a lot into this week, by continuing time in maths and developing our writing further. I managed to fit in numerous lessons and finish several topics this week, which allows me to set up new topics for the last term. I think there will be a lot of practical lessons, which should be fun and probably very full-on. Should be interesting.

In the last term, there are so many things to finish and deadlines to meet. Tests, reports and paperwork. I fear there will be some long days to come. Collecting data can be difficult. I find teacher judgement difficult as well and I'm not sure some children will meet the right expectations. Is that a reflection on me or are they just not at that point yet? I think this will become difficult for me as I write my reports and decide what level the children in my class will be at the end of the year.

With all this is mind, I'm going to spend a bit of time doing some work, however I am going to take some time for myself as half term begins. Before I know it this will be over and the next chapter will begin, which will be slightly scary and I imagine slightly surreal. Time will tell. Happy half term. Steve Maull. An NQT