Guest Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 Morning all!! Off to start the degree this morning. Can't believe how nervous I feel, even when I know its only administrative stuff today!!!!!!!!!!! Have been up ages....... was worried about over sleeping! I should be so lucky!!!!!!! Good luck to anyone starting today.
JacquieL Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 Have a lovely day. It will be really exciting and you will meet lots of other people feeling just as you do.
dublinbay Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 All the best scarlettangel, you'll be fine. Today you'll meet your tutor and all the other people that you'll be spending the next few years with. Maybe the beginning of some new and wonderful friendships. Exciting times! Enjoy!
Shiny Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 You are bound to feel nervous today, but once you get there you will be fine!! Have a great day, just think of all the new friends you will make, perhaps you could introduce some of them to this wonderful site!! Good luck and enjoy your day!!
narnia Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 Trust me,they will ALL feel the same way that you do!! And trust me, it will be absolutely fine.........and you will enjoy the course.Make sure your hair is neat and tidy, ready for your student photograph!! good luckxx
Guest Wolfie Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 Good luck for today, you'll be fine! Just think of all that stationery that you can buy, that's what always keeps me going!
Beau Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 I hope your day goes okay. Once you have a few under your belt it will all seem so much better. Good luck and let us know how you get on.
hali Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 hope you enjoy your day - im sure you will be feeling better at the end of it
Guest Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 OK, I am home from the first day!!!!! Just paperwork to be done today. As you all said, met people in similar situation..... nice folks! All fine until we got the module "contract" given to us...................... Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh looks way heavy. Anyway was tackling that thought, and have got home, opened emails and found that there might be a problem with my funding! Our setting isn't on the list of settings..................... What list I wonder?????????????? So I rang and our setting isn't on a certain list and so my application for funding will need to be discussed by the senior management team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't understand. I am OFSTED registered and as such have a number and am classed as full day care.......... but part of my job is in school and I think that is what is causing the problem. I could cry now I feel really let down. Oh well. Have to fax a copy of the certificate over tomorrow and then have to wait to hear.
Guest Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 how sad! hope you get it sorted soon, will keep my fingers crossed for you. Nona
hali Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 oh dear life is never simple is it? fingers crossed for you im sure it will get sorted
Guest Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 Thanks both. Feeling really down in the dumps right now!
Guest matkat Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 Thanks both. Feeling really down in the dumps right now! hope you feel cheered up soon Matkat
dublinbay Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 Thanks both. Feeling really down in the dumps right now! Cheer up Scarlettangel! Go and buy some new stationery like Wolfie suggested and have a good sniff!! (I love the smell of new stationery & folders & pens & pencil cases and........!!) Fingers crossed for a quick decision on your funding.
Guest Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 Oh dear! Hope it gets sorted out quickly for you
Guest Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 Funnily enough I had already bought a new folder by the time I got home and read the email........ Hasn't perked me up though!!!!!!!!!!!!! On the plus side, I have decided that if our setting for some reason does not match the criteria needed for funding maybe I can apply for a grant towards the costs? Or talk to my boss about my future career development. About help with the costs. I will need this degree to continue with my job past 2015 so how can I not be eligible?????????? I gotta go do some NVQ lecturing now.............. Later all
jennyjenkinz Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 Hi scarlettangel! good luck with getting funding. Unfortunatly I work in a school and am NOT entitled to any funding for my fees as I am in the maintained sector. UGH. Hopefully the hours you work in the school are less then your other job, if so I hope it works out well. having said that I am a bit miffed at funding myself (tution fee loan) it is a great experience and I have benefited enormously! Good uck and don't give up x
Guest Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 Well I am still awaiting the outcome re funding for my foundation degree!!!!!!! Apparently the discrepancy arises as Ofsted have changed the childcare registers and our private bit of the day now will fall under school inspection. It seems though that no one thought to wonder what would happen to private provision (that needs to be financially viable to survive) in the bigger picture here. We are not funded by school and so this all seems a little unfair, as prior to the change in registers we would have been eligible for funding and we are offering the same now as we did then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Will keep you posted!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guest Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 hi scarlettangel I went last night to start the degree and really enjoyed the evening, probably because we only registered and did some ice-breakers. Everybody seemed as worried as I did and I think this made us all feel better, we were given our first modules and then told not to worry as they would explain them all. Have to write down a thought for the day, to do with aur reflective practice , am still thinking and its nearly another day . Good luck with your funding, hope it all works out
Guest Posted September 25, 2008 Posted September 25, 2008 I think my thought for Monday when I started the course was...................... worried but excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I only met half the group but everyone seemed to feel the same and seemed nice. I will be gutted if I can't carry on with the degree................ Was your first module going to be about play and development? I wondered if all the courses ran the same?
Guest Posted September 25, 2008 Posted September 25, 2008 ONE OF THE FIRST MODULES IS PLAY BASED LEARNING. It is linked I think to ICT.
HappyMaz Posted September 25, 2008 Posted September 25, 2008 Trust me,they will ALL feel the same way that you do!! And trust me, it will be absolutely fine.........and you will enjoy the course.Make sure your hair is neat and tidy, ready for your student photograph!! good luckxx Sound advice, narnia! Although when Hali and I had ours done at College they had a nasty green tinge, I remember...
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