As the YSJ semester is well under way I thought it would be a good opportunity to write the first blog sharing our experiences so far from our semester abroad in Norway! The semester here started a few months ago and what a months it has been! From climbing some of the highest mountains in Norway, boat trips along the coast, even to eating breakfast at our lectures house – its safe to say it has been an amazing experience!
Hello again. My third blog comes at a time when the university has been restructured. So I cannot call this “HoP’s Highlights” as the University no longer has HoPs (Heads of Programme) and therefore I am no longer Head of programme for Primary Education. Am I therefore out of a job I hear you cry. No. I am now Director of Undergraduate Initial Teacher Education – a bit of a mouthful, I know. I do want to come and talk to each year group about what this means when we are all settled in, but for today, this means I need a new blog title, as “HoP’s Highlights” no longer works.
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!
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
