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Diary of an NQT: Inspirations from an NQT year

Focusing on what she hopes her pupils have learnt – academically and morally – our NQT diarist discusses the inspirations she will take from the past year

Now we are drawing closer to the end of the summer term and concluding the academic year of 2014 to 2015 I need to bid you farewell. I leave you with some of my inspiring reflections after my first year as a teacher – inspirations that I hope will stay with me throughout my career.

I hope I have made a difference to my learners. Not only do I hope that pupils have made progress in an academic sense, but also I am optimistic that I have empowered them.

Empowerment is close to my heart – hence the subjects I teach. There can be nothing more powerful than embracing difference within the communities in which we live, respecting and celebrating who we are as well as who are neighbours are. Becoming global citizens is what our national curriculum indicates. I hope that the young people I have worked with this year are empowered to be open-minded and accepting of others.

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