From very early on in the Internship, I found out that my passions lie in childrens work. Between finding that out, and having what I believe was a God inspired conversation with my girlfriend, I decided that I want to be a primary school teacher. The conversation (if you trust my memory) went something like this.
Grace, while eating a subway: Have you ever thought about becoming a primary school teacher?
To be honest, I hadn't. But as soon as that idea came up, I can't stop thinking about it. I mean, so far, even when I seemingly screw up my life, it has made sense on the view that I'll become a primary school teacher. I'll explain what I mean, by giving you what has to be the one of the speediest accounts of my educational life so far.
1. Got some pretty decent GCSEs, which i was devastated with (5 Bs and 4 Cs, I was hoping for a lot better than that)
2. Took A levels. switched my psychology to philosophy, because I hated psychology from the start.
3. Loved all of my courses, until about January, when I took a few exams, and realised it was harder than I'd been thinking.
4. Instead of trying harder, I gave up, thus setting me up for doing awfully later on.
5. Scraped 3 AS certificates, failed my favourite course, computing, and got an e in my other favourite, philosophy.
6. Decided for the next year to take a national diploma, in a course, to keep my mum happy, because I already knew by then that I wanted to do the Gap year. I pretty much chose a few days before the course started that it would be Music Technology.
7. So, from the start I was half hearted in the course, stuck with it for about 3 months, made some friends I've kept, and want to keep for a lifetime, and yeah, dropped out just before christmas. My reasons are 4 fold. 1, wasnt going to complete it anyway, 2, wasn't enjoying the course, 3, money was tight, I couldn't pay the £60 fee for the course, 4, (the official reason, if anybody with authority asks me) my mothers health was bad so I became a carer.
That's my educational life so far. Not exactly the most obvious way into teaching. I'll show you though, how God is turning this all around. And it's all down to the Internship. The Internship, as I mentioned at the start, has given me a passion, and the potential to work with young children. It's given my the chance to start again, and have a focus, and it has also given me the experience needed to approach courses and for them to take me seriously.
After thinking about how I could go about getting into teaching, Id researched all the ways possible. But the one which I though, and still think, is the best way for me is to take a Primary Education Diploma at York St Johns. Or somewhere like it.
My reasons are that I wont need a PGCE after the course, it gets me into university, It gives me a degree which i can use for something else if Primary Education isn't my thing, and of course, it's the most obvious route. the only issues is that I dont have the A levels to apply.
For Primary Education BA at York St John, I need:
GCSEs in English, Maths and Science at C and above. (Got)
Around 300 UCAS points. (Got 60, so not enough)
2 weeks at least of experience in a school setting. (got none so far, unless they class my work experience in Year 10, or my assemblies during the Internship)
So, to tackle the problems. I've been accepted into a course at York College called Access to Humanities, this is a one year course recognised as an alternate way into University. It is incredibly hard work, which is essentially 3 A levels and 2 GCSEs in one year.
Before I move on, I'll tell you why this is God given.
The course is designed for people who havent had a chance in A levels, or havent succeeded in that. But, the course is incredibly expensive. To be honest, if it was £400, I couldn't fund it, but, no, it's £1500, just slightly out of my budget. and if you have level 3 certificate, like A levels or a national diploma, you have to pay.
I don't have A levels. But I do have AS's.
But while talking to my interviewer, I found out that 4 AS's count as a level 3 qualification. so that one AS i failed, looks like it means that I wont have to pay the course fee. which is good becuase I'm sick of money getting in my way as an issue.
Another thing that could have potentially get in the way, is that I'm applying for the same college which I failed at twice previously. There are plenty of people in that college who could have given me a bad reference. But, they listened to Caleb's reference and have given me the place.
Moving on.
The other thing I need is experience in school. I've been working in assemblies the entirety of this year, which if you added them up, would come up to more than the required time, but yeah, we've decided that to give me more of a chance in the university interview that I would spend an afternoon off a week to work inside a school. Which is ace. this is very fast moving, from Talking about it with Steph while working in the cafe, we have got a place at westfield set up in a bout a week. As long as CRB checks have been initiated they're happy to let me start. I think they want people to help, somehow. Of course that is mainly because they know my CRB stuff in Gateway has happened.
Yeah, I think i havent started scratching the surface on what is happening in my life right now, or why I'm so happy, and I'm in a good place with God. But yeah, that's just a taster. I'm sorry this is rushed, and also, probably poorly written. I need to fill in a few forms. :)
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