Here is my complete personal statement, Sue didn't tell me to change much she just helped me take things out as it was over the word limit.
I believe teaching is a very rewarding and fulfilling career. From a young age I always enjoyed attending school and still remember to this day the teachers that stood out to me and had a big impact on my life. My passion for teaching lies with Early Years/ KS1 as I would like to make an impact early on in a child’s life.
I managed to receive some amazing experience when volunteering at Berry Brow Infant & Nursery School in Huddersfield which really solidified my desire to teach. My placement started in February 2018 and ended in May 2018 however, I am scheduled to return in the new year once I have handed my dissertation in at university. During my time at Berry Brow I helped out in the reception class one morning a week and assisted in many simple classroom tasks such as listening to the children read, helping the children when they got stuck with arts & crafts tasks, ensuring the children played safely outside and running with the children and encouraging them on their daily mile. As well as this I often assisted the teachers and helped them with jobs such as getting work stations ready in a morning before the children arrived, sticking some of the children’s work up on the display boards, putting new handwriting tasks into exercise books and putting books that the children had borrowed back into the correct section of the library.
Prior to this I had very limited experience of working with children and I was honoured to get the opportunity, over the limited time I was there I learnt many valuable skills and things about myself. I now know that I can adapt myself well and think on my feet when I need to, it also helped me improve my leadership skills, communication skills and ability to help as well as discipline young children. Over the three-month placement I found it remarkable how much development the children made in their reading and writing skills and I was grateful for the opportunity to support the activities which engaged the children and enabled them to achieve while having fun. Being able to see the children develop was hugely rewarding and I look forward to actively contributing to this further during my teaching career.
Despite not doing a national curriculum subject at university I believe I have many transferable skills that will assist me in a teaching role. I am a very organised person and I am excellent at planning my time, I enjoy working to deadlines as working under pressure gives me more focus and drive to get things done. As well as this I believe my creativity and love for art and design will help keep my lessons fun and interesting. I studied English Language and Literature at A-level therefore I am a very competent writer and gained many skills during this time as it helped me with my grammar and sentence structure, as well as my ability to analyse and interpret text. I also studied Applied Science at A-level so I have a wide understanding of all three science which will aid my teaching, this also helped me keep my maths skills up to scratch as we had to memorise certain equations and calculations to help us during exams.
From my work experience it is clear to me that teaching is the career path I want to go down and doing a PGCE seems the best way for me to achieve this. The PGCE course appeals to me as it seems engaging and a great way to develop many skills that will assist me as a teacher. After doing a lot of research I know that a PGCE is a lot of hard work and won’t be easy however I am excited to start engaging with young children in a way that will benefit me and lead me to my dream career.
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