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Diary of an NQT: My first scheme of work

Working in a department that shares resources and planning, our NQT diarist is excited to be given his first scheme of work to plan and create...

In collaboration with another NQT colleague, I am currently writing my first full GCSE scheme of work. As I have mentioned in previous entries, my department is very generous in terms of sharing lesson plans and resources. Each of us takes responsibility for writing a scheme of work that can then be used by everyone in the department. This collaborative approach works well as it drastically cuts down the amount of planning we have to do.

During my ITT year, I wrote a sequence of eight GCSE lessons on the Korean War as part of the larger Conflict in Asia topic, but this is my first experience of creating an entire scheme of work from scratch. The scheme we are writing focuses on Norman England between 1066 and 1100.

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