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Has your school hosted a trainee teacher placement this year?  A NEW DfE Digital Service opened in April 2025 – schools are being onboarded throughout May 2025 based on ITT providers’ r...

As the ECT and mentor programmes progress through the year, there are often times when ECT and mentor details change. Many of these changes can cause an interruption to programme access if they are...

Upskill your knowledge and understanding about EAL and teaching primary computing. EAL support for ECTs – free bite sized online training. Did you know that through our work with the Bell ...

From September 2024 there have been some changes to Initial Teacher Training (ITT) for all providers and for schools offering placements and mentoring to support trainee teachers. We would like to ...

Teaching School Hubs are charged with finding out about schools’ engagement in ITT, to gain a picture of placement capacity and sufficiency across the area and to support schools that wish to...

Information for induction tutors for term 6 We know that the role of the induction tutor is busy and varied.  We thought it would be useful to map out details a few ‘tasks’ which will/...

Support for all ITT and ECT mentors -save the date and book now – FREE! Next term, the Five Counties Teaching School Hubs Alliance is hosting a free conference for anyone involved in mentoring t...

Some NPQs are still fully funded for many for our Autumn 2024 cohorts! New funding arrangements for NPQs – The DfE have announced that NPQ funding from Autumn 2024 will be targeted to those teacher...