NQT

A dream you had since you were a little kid

To have a job that you adore

Everyday you count your lucky stars

But teaching is much much more

From day one at Uni it was all about a file

Will you get all the standards met?

The stress, the workload and the time

And you haven’t met the class yet!

At the end of Uni you get your first job

Think storage and head off to Ikea

The excitement builds for the first day

What to do now?  You have no idea

Six weeks in and the marking is piling up

Your social life has taken a dent

School work constantly on your mind

From the everyday planning to the assessment

Christmas arrives with the madness that it brings

The children are all up the wall

Your looking forward to your two week break

 You’ve survived the Autumn Fall

Back after the break and not much changed

The hours are wasting away

Working non stop from dusk till dawn

Always working and no time to play

Workload increases as reports to write

Saying the same thing on everyone

Looking back, how did you survive?

Because you don’t know where the year has gone

Does it get easier you ask yourself?

As the summer sun finally comes out

You have to reapply for your own job

What’s that all about?

You luck is in and you have another year

You now know what to expect

The year is basically all the same

You are delighted with the planning you kept

It does get easier the old timer says

You just learn how to prioritise

Seeing those children grow and learn

Now that’s the ultimate prize!