 Hello. I'm Alison Hales. I'm one of the senior lecturers on the primary QTS programme. I'm also head of placements and placement partnerships. I was a primary school teacher for a number of years before I joined the university. I've been with the university for about 12 years now, and my area of expertise is primary history. So I've published and I've written on primary history, so if you come to join us, you'll see me for your history sessions. So, let me tell you about some of our placements that you might experience depending on the programme that you choose. If you're on the QTS programme, you will go into schools. Again, it may range from two weeks up to eight or nine weeks. One of our education programmes, again, they will vary in length depending on the route that you're choosing. So, let me give you an example. If you join our QTS Year 2 programme, you will have some days in the setting for professional development, so some professional development days, and then you would go in for a seven-week block in the autumn term. Alongside that, in Year 2, you would go into an enrichment placement, which is two weeks, and that will be in an alternative setting. So you're getting the idea of education in the wider context, and that might be in settings such as museums, hospital schools. We've had students in the past go to special schools, work with London Ambulance, and we've also had some students who have worked in schools abroad. So when you go into the placement, you're going to be working alongside trained mentors and other expert colleagues to ultimately develop your professional practice depending on the route that you've chosen. So you're going to be working with children or young learners, and you will be perfecting your teaching skills, you will be thinking about how the theory leads into practice, so the theory that you learn in the university and what that looks like in actual practice. The benefits of going into a placement is that you're getting a range of experiences, so it may be that you are in a small, rural primary school or early year setting, and then you will have the opportunity to go into perhaps a larger, urban, very diverse setting. So we're able here at Greenwich to offer you a range of experiences in that way. You're also going to be working alongside those trained mentors and expert colleagues in the setting. You are developing your personal and your professional attributes, what we would expect somebody who graduates from Greenwich to have. So the types of placements will depend on the route that you have chosen when you come to study here at Greenwich. So it could be that if you're on a QTS programme that you may go, if you're choosing the early years route, you're going to an early year setting. If it's primary, it's a primary school secondary or a further education setting if you're choosing the further education route. The length of the programmes will differ, so it depends on the programme itself and the stage of development within that programme will depend on the length. But let me give you an example. So if you were to choose our primary QTS programme in year two, you would have some professional development days. You would then go into a block placement in the autumn term, which lasts for seven weeks. After that, later on in the academic year, towards the summer, you'll do a two-week enrichment placement. That's working in an alternative setting, so you get to see education in the wider context. You might be in settings such as museums, libraries. We've had students who have worked in school hospitals, in special schools. We've also had students who have worked abroad for those two weeks. So we work really closely with our partners. They are instrumental in our work at university in terms of helping us develop our curriculum so that we can ensure that you, as a learner, are getting the very best of the best education in terms of recent research and practice that is out there. So we share expertise. We may have colleagues who come into the university who will take lectures and workshops. Likewise, we will go into schools and settings as well and work with colleagues within the school. We couldn't work without our partners. So we pride ourselves on that really close, collaborative, working relationship with them.