Any primary teachers around to advise?

[abbierhodes]

I've posted on the TES forums but it's rather quiet over there! Thought I'd post here as there are often loads of teachers posting on MN.

I'm a secondary teacher who would love to switch to primary, but I don't know where to start. I have experience of primary kids but not in a classroom setting.

Has anyone made this switch? Does anyone know if there's a course I can do without doing an entirely new PGCE? I really cant afford to give up my full time job and retrain, but I am willing to work as hard as I can to make this happen.

Don't know how you feel about the independant sector but prep schools teaching 7 to 13 year olds are often keen to employ secondary-trained teachers. You would be teaching single subjects to the upper age group but more generally to the younger ones.