I don’t think I should quit because of one or two mentors that have made me feel inadequate. 1. I love working with children and get the ‘buzz’, but the 18 hour days through the week and weekends playing catch up are hard to keep up. I am helping with Maths support for KS3 pupils and hope to get my old job back when they will be advertised in the summer. I know that people’s experiences vary wildly. I’m stressed and tired all the time. Much of the paperwork was adapted (or not) from the GTP, and was insanely repetitive. Having said this, I’m very torn with what to do as my school are incredibly supportive and I’m worried about regretting my choices if I don’t undertake my NQT year, however, I cannot see myself working 70 hour weeks for the foreseeable future. We did binary maths, we broke and made codes. I love the teaching and being with the children but the hours outside of contracted hours are simply too much. Don’t think that you just don’t ‘have authority’. Yeah, I’ve been offered a role in my current school. I have to say that I think being a primary teacher, for me, has been incompatible with family life, in the schools I’ve worked in. The class teacher doesn’t manage behaviour any better than me and appears to accept that the children will behave this way. I am leaving te house at 7 in the morning and getting in at 6 at night. Sorry it’s can’t afford to do pgce in my last comment *. I have to say if you have a child to get to and from nursery and your husband is away in the week, I really think you will find it incredibly difficult unless you have some extra childcare in place – how early can you drop off and how late can you pick up? The way I see it is I can spend six minutes or six years deliberating it – but until I actually try it, I’m just not going to know whether it’s for me. That is never going to happen in a career in teaching. Now I am at the point of believing that I cannot teach and I feel like telling the school the reason for this is because that is what they have led me to believe. By the end of the Spring term, however, I was developing an increasing awareness of how children learn, through a combination of college lectures, practical experience and school Continuing Professional Development (CPD). I will pass it on to her because I think just knowing that others out there have felt the same will give her the encouragement she needs. Our PGCE with QTS programme will also give you 60 … If not, still time to think about the options. Thank you so much for writing this blog. I guess Primary was just the wrong route for me! Interesting, a lot of people have said that. Sorry to rant, it just is nice to find someone who was in a situation similar to mine! Thanks so much for your help! Given my professional background and my time spent as an instructor, this held no weight whatsoever in looking to secure a salaried route into SD. This School Direct debacle has almost ruined me. When I was going to open days one Head told me “School Direct is no different from the GTP” and that people, like me, with no or little experience of working with children would be very unlikely to get a place, which seemed to close the door on career changers – but I got a place, largely I think down to personal preference. If yes, please contact me at zoephiland@gmail.com, Hello, And when I started, I found I was only one of two career-changers in four schools, and even at college we were the exception; we sought each other out, we could sense the desperation in each other’s eyes. Get bespoke advice, help with your application, and meet training … I’ve regretted it ever since and want to lead by example for my kids so building up to trying again. 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