I'm on my placement in a foundation stage unit which has both nursery and reception children in the same class.
My life has been non-existent since being on placement as the expectations from the school are that I have no life whatsoever.
A typical day mon-fri
7:30am wake up
8:10am leave house
8:30am arrive at school - set up classroom activities that the cleaner has either knocked over, sucked up by the hoover or stuff that will dry out over night
9:00-9:10am lets children in and do register - allocate nursery to activity table and allocate NN and TA
9:10-9:25am reception Literacy - shared reading/writing
9:25-9:40am reception/nursery literacy - guided reading/writing
9:45-10:00am let kids go out and grab nursery to do stage 2 phonics
10:00-10:15am meant to have a break but still haven't taken a single one over the five weeks here
10:15-10:30am grab reception and now do stage 4 phonics
10:30-10:45am prepare for numeracy activity
10:45-10:50am reception numeracy mental/oral starter
10:50-11:05am focus group numeracy activity
11:05-11:20am hover around activities including child initiated activities to question, assess and support children
11:20-11:30am tidy up
11:30-11:45am a bit of a sing song
11:45-12:05pm eat lunch with children - settle kids down for TA who watches over them
12:05-12:45pm rest of lunch which is occupied with photocopying work samples for profiling and observations
12:45-1:00pm prepare afternoon activities
1:00-1:10pm register and settle down children
1:10-1:15pm send nursery off to target tables and get reception children to read high frequency words
1:15-1:30pm reception/nursery second guided reading
1:30-1:45pm reception/nursery second guided writing
1:45-2:45pm only substantial time I get to observe and support a free flow session
2:45-3:00pm tidy up
3:00-3:25pm carpet story or songs
3:25-3:30pm get coats and ‘sit nicely now’
Where are all the parents? Take those left children down to reception
3:40-5:15pm meeting either school/year group/ whole year group staff/ workshop/
5:15-5:45pm prepare for next day
Thankfully at 6:00pm the caretaker locks the school up so I can go home
6:00-6:30pm get home (notice it takes longer to get home than go to school in the morning!)
7:00-7:45pm dinner
8:00-9:00pm 5mile run to destress and also just get away from things
9:30-10:30pm write lesson plans or annotate them with some evaluative comments
THE END