No matter how good your training was, starting as an NQT is a significant step up in your teaching career. You will still be wrestling with the big ideas about history teaching which you explored in your training year.  You will also have the all too real, day-to-day pressures of a (nearly) full timetable, possibly a form group and a school of hundreds of strange children and staff to get to know.  The activities suggested in the two ‘Thrive' units will help you to learn from your experiences during this baptism of fire, helping you to move on from merely surviving in History teaching to - ultimately! - thriving.