Ever since I started Primary School, I looked up to my teachers. I loved the way that they taught and how lovely they were to me. Ever since then it’s all I’ve worked towards during my time in school. I chose subjects which would help me get into uni to study education. In my 3rd […] Continue reading →

For me, teaching has always been what I have wanted to do. From a young age, I have always wanted to be like my Primary School teachers and have a class of my own. However, along the way like any other teenager, I changed my mind so many times. I wanted to be a Radio […] Continue reading →

From a very young age I knew that I wanted to become a teacher. One of my own many inspirations to follow this through began with my own primary one teacher. I loved her enthusiasm for every lesson, her gentleness and kind approach to us anxious children and her unique style of teaching. As a […] Continue reading →

I cannot remember the exact moment where I realised that I wanted to be a teacher. But I know that children and learning have always been something that I’ve been passionate about. As the eldest of 8 grandchildren I’ve grown up looking after my younger siblings and cousins. This is where my love of children […] Continue reading →

Teaching? If you had asked me about becoming a teacher 5 years ago, I would have laughed. I had my heart set on becoming a lawyer, but then I realised… I started helping out at my local Rainbow Guiding unit, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This is a very simple, yet difficult question for me to answer. I know it may sound like a cliché but I’ve always wanted to be a primary school teacher from a very young age, but my passion for this profession really ignited when I was in primary 4. There was a male teacher who […] Continue reading →

Reflecting on myself as a child I knew I never wanted to grow up. Seriously I believed I would go to Neverland and would be a kid forever. However, I had to grow up and with that I had to decide what profession I wanted to enter in to. Strangely enough in Primary School I … Continue reading Why teaching? → Continue reading →

Ever since I was extremely young I had always imagined that I would follow in my mum’s footsteps and become a nurse, it was something I always really liked the sound of but never actually considered the ins and outs of. It was on the occasion that my dance teacher asked me if I would […] Continue reading →

I haven’t always wanted to be a teacher. When I was young I wanted to be a comedian and that was that. I started to drift towards education in the latter years of high school; after I had begun thinking about all those who have helped inspire me, and after I realised I was a hilarious […] Continue reading →

There are many reasons as to why I have chose teaching but the greatest one of them all is my passion for learning. I feel it is very important that children learn some of the most essential life skills while they are at primary school. I feel it is the duty of the teacher to […] Continue reading →

Deciding to become a teacher is a commitment, not only to yourself, but to the wider community; a commitment to help to improve the skills and abilities of young people, whilst providing opportunities which allow them to learn in an engaging and exciting environment. Working with young people in a community outside of school made […] Continue reading →

  Throwback to 12 years ago….. I was a bossy 7 year old teaching an innocent 4 year old to count. After 2 hours of me nagging she eventually counted to ten and from that moment I knew that teaching was the profession for me. In primary school I didn’t just sit in my primary […] Continue reading →