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Nurture 15/16 or a version of it anyway.

2015 was a year – not a good year, not a bad year just a year.  Lots of change, lots of life stuff that probably doesn’t need to be shared in a blog and a general feeling that I won’t be sad to see the end of this particular year.  Before pondering the year to come, it is worth reflecting on the goals I set for myself for the year just gone.  The first task I set for myself was to remember the importance of the act of teaching and the impact it can have, to remain committed to the provision of an education that meets the need of every child.  In some ways I have struggled with this one as I didn’t start properly teaching until September.  I don’t think I have forgotten what is important to me but I do think I have had fewer opportunities to put it into practice.  I wanted to say yes to new experiences and this one I really didn’t.  I retreated back into my shell a bit and whilst I think I have learned a lot in my new job, other than that, this one really didn’t take.  My third goa

In response to @ChrisChivers2...

I read an excellent and insightful blogpost from Chris Chivers (@chrischivers2) today. In this post, he posed and answered four questions: • What got you into teaching? • If you are/have been a headteacher; what was your motivation? • What would you do to improve the current system?
 • What keeps you in teaching? I enjoyed his post so much, I thought I would try to answer the questions myself because this time of year seems right for reflection. What got me into teaching? My answer to this question is awful but a lack of something else to do. I was on the verge on finishing university, couldn't afford to stay on for further study and didn’t have any burning career ambitions. I had spent a lot of my uni days working on play schemes and enjoyed it so thought I would try teaching. I had flirted with the idea of primary school teaching whilst doing my A levels but a degree in Psychology and Philosophy seemed better suited to secondary. So I applied to do my PGCE, was prett