I gained Newly Qualified Teacher Status!

Yesterday I gained NQT status with Outstanding, which is the highest grade possible! The external assessor came in to audit my files and watch me teach a lesson. She highly praised my files and parts of my lesson. She said I needed to make my lesson pacier and at the beginning of the lesson she said there was too much guess work even though the girls were having fun. The students worked in pairs and gave feedback to the rest of the group, one thing she did say was that I needed to start the feedback in a different place in the room every time to make sure that every student has a fair chance to feedback. She said I should have made the Learning Objective more explicit and I should have assigned the TA to a job. However, I am pleased and have to teach a four period day today and then have two weeks of preparation time to sort out things for next year.