10 top tips to my freshers self!
Katie is currently completing the Primary Education Programme and has written a blog post detailing her 10 Top Tips to herself for Freshers’ Week. Definitely worth a read!
Category: General
Advice for Second Years!
First of all, I’d like to start things off with a quick apology and explanation. To those of you who read the blog regularly you’ll know that I am not the most reliable blogger...
Preparing For University…
Hello everyone, Today I am going to talk about preparing for university, what I did beforehand my first day, about making friends, university life and university work. So to begin with I started York...
Preparing to start at YSJ
Starting university can be a daunting process, and no doubt a few of you have been wondering what this experience will be like. There are also some who will probably just like to get...
I remember my A levels
Thinking back, completing my A levels seems like a long time ago but at the same time, I feel like they could have occurred last week! I finished my A levels in 2014 and...
The Dreaded A-Level Result Day…
Hello Everyone, Today I am going to try and reassure you about your A-Levels and what to expect… So I’ll never forget the day I got my A-Level results. So it all started off...
HoP’s Highlight 2: Third Year’s Final Assessment
Hello again. My first blog under “HoP’s Highlights” focused on second year assessment in our Wider Curriculum module. The focus of this blog is also assessment, this time our third year students and their final assessment over their very last three days at York St John. When we first planned and designed our current degree programme we incorporated a final year subject specialism – a choice from English, mathematics, PE, science and languages – which was to involve as its final assessment, a continued professional development (CPD) event run by the students for the students. “It will never work,” some cried.
Keeping up to date with education.
Education is like the sand on a beach. No, I don’t mean that it is moved along the coast via long shore drift or that it gets into your ‘sandwiches’ or even that it has that annoying habit of getting between your toes and seems impossible to remove! Education, like sand, is always shifting.
Where are they now? – Jack Patterson
Before I start, here are some things that I’m unapologetically proud of: I successfully passed my NQT year getting Outstanding observations in subjects such as Maths, Literacy, Music. I moved out of home and...
Pros and Cons to using online resources
Hi everyone,
Today I thought I’d discuss the pros and cons of using online resources to support teaching and learning. For me it is one thing I do stress about, I love all the ideas on the internet but is it an easy way out?
Here are my discussion points as to why you may or may not use online resources: