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Hard-earned brownie points

NQTs
Our NQT diarist earns some brownie points after the successful climax of an initiative to stretch her most able students and engage with the community at the same time.

This week was a proud one for me as I saw through to completion the first project that I had run from start to finish totally independently!

NQTs tend to have someone waiting in the wings to rescue them, but this project was something I was determined to achieve alone – more to prove myself than any other reason. 

As the £2 coin says, I felt the need to “stand on the shoulders of giants” and try to establish my own little niche that both I and the school could be proud of, but which also got my name onto the map for my first year.

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