Team 4, Team 1 Strathclyde Institute of Education #StrathPGDE , picking up from our discussions yesterday

Onto week 2 of PGDE. Lots of information being thrown at us. Hopefully it all makes sense come placement 🤞

2 really good workshops this week in drama and art. Really good ideas in each area for kids focus and fun projects. Thanks to Ann Grierson and Wilma Eaton for really engaging lessons. My future primary kids have big shoes to fill looking at my art work 😂😂

Had such a great meet and greet today with team 4 and our tutor!

Great to catch up with Team 4 in person! Some of the team out for our first in person lunch! Strathclyde Institute of Education University of Strathclyde

Busy Monday finished with becoming a Certified Microsoft Innovative Educator. Still a long way to go to fully understand Microsoft and technology in education but it’s a good start 🤩 Strathclyde Institute of Education Microsoft Education UK

Really great to see Team 4s different talk boxes today for LCE with Angela de Britos My curiosity for the solar system led me to my idea. (My dog was not happy after I used her balls as the sun and the earth 😂) #StrathPGDE Strathclyde Institute of Education University of Strathclyde

So happy about my placement school and with primary 3 🤩 Very excited but also super nervous/ slightly terrified. Any help/tips would be much appreciated 😂🙈 #StrathPGDE Strathclyde Institute of Education

Last weekend before my first placement. I’m absolutely bricking it but also full of excitement to learn all there is to learn about becoming a successful teacher! Massive thanks to Evelyn Hart for the amazing support so far! #StrathPGDE Strathclyde Institute of Education

Week 4 of placement already! Had a proud teacher moment yesterday whilst the kids are learning about 3D shapes! Making cubes with straws and play dough! And they turned out so great!! Such a good way to discuss vertices and edges!

Last day of placement today was emotional to say the least. Face masks are good for hiding tears. Had the best first placement with my P3 class! And amazing class teacher. I taught them how to play hockey & shapes but they taught me more than they will ever know!

Working on some STEM work this week in early years. Colours and reactions as well as making fake snow ❄️ and working on fine motor skills! To top it all off, Santa’s reindeer turned up! I was definitely more excited that the kids!

Amazing PE session learning about how to teach primary gymnastics! Being a hedgehog has never been so much fun! Big thanks to our awesome #Team4 leader Evelyn Hart! #cheer

Such a fun day at Glasgow Science centre with P5s learning about all the ways we can help protect planet earth! Best part was the IMAX movie filmed from the international space station! Kids and I loved it!

Had our last LCE and STEM seminars this week. So taking this opportunity to thank Angela de Britos and Ann Grierson for all their support and encouragement. Going into last block of placement with more confidence. #StrathPGDE

Huge thanks to SATPE Primary for the twilight PE session tonight! Looking forward to bringing some of that back into placement and beyond. So good being able to see some of #Team4 and of course our fearless leader Evelyn Hart #StrathPGDE

Quick visit back to Craigdhu Primary School today, planning for block 2 and got the biggest welcome from my P5 class in the playground. Fair to say I am so excited to go back after Easter and explore more learning with this awesome class!

Very proud of P5’s Planet Earth cardboard paintings to celebrate #EarthDay. We have still to put our messages of how we can help protect Earth on them but so far they look amazing!! #StrathPGDE

Primary 5 are exploring Light in science so today we combined a magnifying glass with a kaleidoscope to see things in all different colours. P5 came up with the name of kaleidoglass. Excellent work, very fun and practical!

The absolute best girls ! Could not have done PGDE without these ladies 💜