When I returned from my holiday last weekend, I was greeted by 2 very important pieces of paper in the post- My QTS and PGCE certificates had arrived! I can now officially prove that I am qualified to teach! 
Even though I’d known I was going to be gaining QTS since July, actually holding the QTS certificate in my hands made it feel real for me and it finally really dawned on me that I had qualified as a teacher- and I am no longer a ‘trainee’.
To reflect this, I have (very joyfully!) changed the name of my blog- from Tales from a Trainee Teacher to Tales from a Newly Qualified Teacher (imaginative I know 
) All the blog posts from the PGCE will of course stay on the blog- and I’m going through and re-tagging them ‘PGCE’ so they can be easily be found.
I plan to keep on blogging with gusto during my NQT year- hopefully bringing the same mix of reflections, resources and general ramblings that I wrote during my PGCE year. I hope this will continue to be interesting reading! I also want to take this opportunity to thank you all again for reading this blog and being so supportive to me during my PGCE year!
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