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  • The Ups, The Downs and the Loops: Navigating the Rollercoaster of Teaching in a Secondary School.

    The Ups, The Downs and the Loops: Navigating the Rollercoaster of Teaching in a Secondary School.

    Will this Student Teacher thrive or dive as he delves into the unknown of an all-female secondary school?

  • The Work Placement Blogs

    A Blog Entry by Ciara Captain I’ve always been told that I ‘land in muck and come up smelling of roses’ in relation to my patterns with luck. This was one of those moments. I had only gone and secured my work placement. When I reflect over the past few weeks, I find myself using…

  • Playing it by ear on placement!

    What do you want to be when you grow up? Well, my answer is simple, a teacher. As I got older and somewhat wiser it didn’t change. Ever since I can remember I have wanted to teach, from helping with the Sunday school memory verses to trying to teach my brother to hold my violin.…

  • Saved by the school bell…or doomed?

    First days are usually nothing short of a dream- or so I thought. I could not suppress the mixture of both excitement and nerves for the journey ahead. I took a deep breath and straightened my new shiny ‘St. Conor’s College– Classroom Assistant’ lanyard. I stepped into the unfamiliar building and swiftly made my way down the…

  • A Survival Guide to Primary School Placement

    A day in the life of a primary school teacher is not simply teaching children how to tell the time, or the difference between an adjective and a verb; there is so much more to it. As I have ventured into the world of primary teaching at St. Patrick’s Primary School Moneymore https://www.stpatricksmoneymore.co.uk/, I’ve come…

  • “Those who can, do: those who can’t, teach”; Listen here, George Bernard Shaw…

    “Those who can, do: those who can’t, teach”; Listen here, George Bernard Shaw…

    When I tell people of my dream vocation, a secondary school teacher, they often scoff the stereotypical George Bernard Shaw quote, “Those who can, do: those who can’t, teach”[1]. I wish Shaw, and all those who scoff at my career aspirations had stood beside me in my fifth week of placement in St. Malachy’s College,…

  • IT’S NOT AS EASY AS IT SEEMS!!!

    First Impressions Being a teaching assistant, I thought would be relatively straightforward. I did not envisage myself helping children eat their lunch, put on their coats, or even clean up their sick! Within the first day of my placement I had to do all of these tasks and more.  When I naively walked into the…

  • My Second ‘First Day of School.’

    My alarm sounds. 7:00am. Go through the checklist: teeth brushed, gotten dressed, packed my bag and out the door. Nerves set it. New people to meet, new classes to go to and a new school to attend. I arrive. I’m in the front door. “Hi Miss!” is heard as I enter. It’s my first day,…

  • SARC-ing an interest in live streaming

    by Lia Harvey For this module, I have secured my placement with the Video Team in Queen’s University’s Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), which I attend for 4 hours every Thursday. My role in this placement involves livestreaming lunchtime concerts held either in the Sonic Lab in SARC or in the Harty Room located in…

  • Sounding It Out

    Live sound is a catch-all term that covers a huge variety of applications; from operas to open mic nights, ballets to ‘battle of the bands’, the job of a live sound engineer is always hands-on, and it’s always been the practical, rather than the purely theoretical, that I’ve found most interesting. My course has always…