I didn’t always want to be a primary school teacher, when I was younger I wanted to teach music. I started learning to play the violin in Primary 3, and then began learning the piano in P6. After a while I really began to enjoy music and could see myself teaching it. When I started high school music remained my favourite subject and up until the end of 4^th year I wanted to study to be a secondary music teacher. However my mind was changed when I passed my grade 8 piano, I realised that teaching music everyday would take away the enjoyment of my hobby. In 5^th year I began a sports leadership course through the P.E. department. After 6 weeks of learning one sport we would then teach local primary school children what we had learned. I really enjoyed this and decided that although I didn’t want to be a music teacher, I still enjoyed teaching but preferred primary teaching. I completed a ten week placement for 2 hours every Friday at my local primary school and enjoyed being able to help children develop their skills and found seeing their progress week by week was really rewarding.

At this point I find it hard to say what kind of teacher I’d want to be. Although I’d like to think that when I do start teaching I would be supportive and make learning as enjoyable as possible for my class. I think that finding ways to enhance each individual child’s learning is important too and hope that overtime I can develop skills to do this.