Pre-NQT Jitters

T'was the night before the NQT year, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring - but for a woman staring at her laptop screen with a furrowed brow meaning she's definitely going to have more wrinkles on her forehead than she'd like to have by the time she's thirty.

Oh hiya, yeah that's me!

ARGH. Tomorrow marks the beginning of my NQT year. Am I nervous? Hell yes. Am I excited? Hell yes. Am I daunted? Ohhhh, hell yes. Am I letting it get to me? Nah, I'm alright really - it has been rolling it's way around for a while now and it's finally here... Who am I to complain? I've had a pretty awesome summer, and I'm going into a job I've wanted all my life. It's naaaaeeee a bad thing.

But at the same time I kinda feel a bit like I wanna do this:

Although like most schools up and down the country - the start of term never actually means the start of term. Tomorrow is a staff training day. I've been sent an itinerary by my Head of Faculty and the first thing on it is "8:10am - Breakfast" so I'm already happy with that. On Tuesday, the school is open but only for Y7 and Y12. This is a pretty good thing for me because I have a Y7 form group and I get to spend the whole day with them - I do love a good 'getting to know you' kind of day and it means I get another day of settling in myself before Wednesday. 

Wednesday is when shit gets real.

On Wednesday I have a full six-lesson day, which in itself is something I've never had before. So yeah. Wednesday is when I'll 'officially' begin my NQT year. 

Like I say. It's making me nervous, excited, and mega daunted. 

I've done all I can though. I've made my classroom look b-e-a-uuutiful (if I do say so myself), I've made myself my infamous spreadsheet that I swear by when I am teaching, I've swotted up on the Schemes of Work and I know what I'm teaching in my first three days. I reckon that's prepped enough, don't you?

Pretty convinced my life is about to get hella stressful. But it's the kind of stress I enjoy, I guess? So I'll keep you posted, I'll share my thoughts, worries, woes and opinions - as well as the other life stuff I've been sharing so far. If anything it will no doubt distract me from the inevitable mountain of work I'm supposed to be doing in my NQT year.

See ya.