The Secret PGCE (Completed)

Qualified unemployed primary school teacher.

[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

@BrendaMaguire1 @curiouscroquet Sounds like 20 minutes lost from every lesson!

[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

My last mentor bought me a beautiful academic diary for this year. It's quite sad that it looks so empty 😐

[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

The GTCNI has now BEGUN to assess my application. Will be 6 to 8 weeks and 'not possible to fast track'. Thank goodness nobody in Northern Ireland is looking for a substitute teacher.

[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

Lovely to get into school for a day, even if as a volunteer. Morning in nursery, afternoon in P7! The difference in chair sizes 🤣.

[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

Thanks for the support. The union are aware of the issues. NQTs who qualified outside Northern Ireland (but in UK) are being treated by GTCNI as though we are foreign. This is a ridiculous state of affairs. I sent them my QTS from the DoE in Whitehall and that isn't good enough!

[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

@rhsheadmaster That's a lovely, kind offer. I have others offering the same and I am going to volunteer at a local school from Friday. Thank you for reaching out. It is nice to feel supported. I hope you have a nice start to the new term.

[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

A pang of jealousy as I read all the excited tweets from NQTs starting with their new classes. Meanwhile, the GTCNI still hasn't even given me a registration number. Good luck, everyone!

[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

@gumboot9 They say because WFH they can't process individual requests.

[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

I'm feeling very low. I can't register as a teacher in Northern Ireland because I did my PGCE in England and the University has still not sent me a certificate and transcript. There's a local job for the first time in three months and I can't even apply for it. I want to cry.
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[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

@pgce2020 Same. Feels like my PGCE was my year of teaching. I am seriously considering applying for journalism jobs again.

[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

@brombleberry @MrTs_NQTs My dread is that I still have no job. There's none now advertised and I feel that I may have made a terrible mistake.

[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

@misscjprimary Congratulations. But I don't see any light at the end of my tunnel. I just wanted an interview for some practice!

[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

Another rejection. Now there's literally no jobs left to apply for. Signing on. Sigh.

[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

@ChrisWardle77 I really can't understand preferring teaching secondary. Primary is just lovely.

[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

@mr_alfredb I love happy tweets 🥰

[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

@Teacherglitter Good stuff. I'm having whiskey with four asleep between 7 and 0.

[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

I have my QTS. Now just to jump through all the hoops to be registered in Northern Ireland because England is a separate country when there's duplicate civil service jobs to justify...

[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

@misscjprimary Schools not even bothering to send a rejection are the worst. It's a basic lack of manners. Though the question has to be, would you want to work somewhere that treats people like that?

[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

I really thought I'd got my best application together. Showed off some of my best work. Pointed out the football coaching I am doing over the summer to offer something else. Not shortlisted. I want to be a teacher, but teaching doesn't want me.

[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

@EHanson2016 Fingers crossed for you. I will be happy enough supply teaching for a while but I do want to get to know a new class soon 🥰

[The Secret PGCE (Completed) @PgceThe]

So passed my final viva. I will qualify next month to be an unemployed teacher!