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Tudor Grange Teaching School Hub
Newsletter

May 2023

In this Newsletter:

  1. Early Career Framework
  2. Appropriate Body
  3. Summer Briefings - Essential Information for September 2023
  4. National Professional Qualification
  5. Initial Teacher Training
  6. CPD Opportunities
  7. Meet the TSH Team
Message from the Director of TSH, Emma Hatton:

This time of year always seems so busy, doesn't it? But at least we have glorious weather to help motivate us! (As I write, I can see colleagues running across the playground, rueful of the fact that they were fooled by a cloudless sky this morning. Without a coat, and certainly no thought given to an umbrella, they are reliant only on their hi-viz jackets to protect them from the unexpected shower...)

In TSH, we are spending lots of time planning for next year now.  There are opportunities for you and colleagues in all phases to work with us, and colleagues here at TSH have detailed some of these below. 

In addition to this, there are a number of information briefings coming up, which I would like to draw your attention to. These information events are designed to help those of you who are currently working with us to have clarity around the next steps. They will be succinct summaries, and we would very much encourage your attendance.

I am excited to share with you that we are planning a TSH roadshow. We hope to meet lots of you on our visits, and hear from you what your priorities are. We are coming to a school near you soon! Watch out for more information.

Quality assurance work continues, and we hope to be in a position to share with you the case studies and other relevant materials in our next newsletter. We are especially interested in gathering evidence of longitudinal impact. Please get in touch if you would like to be part of this research study. 

In the last newsletter, I shared with you that we are planning to distribute the leadership of TSH work. Plans for this are developing well, and I hope to be able to share more with you about this in July.

The team have been reading Peps Mccrea's "Developing Expert Teaching" and are feeling inspired about some of the essential ingredients of expertise. It's a really concise, and accessible read. 

Thanks for reading, enjoy the rest of the newsletter, and don't forget your brolly!  

Emma. 

 Early Career Framework: Emily Stallard

Summer 2023 Events:
As we approach half-term, we can reflect on the successes of more ECF events. A huge thank you to all of our April 2023 ECTs and Mentors, who have had a fantastic start to their course. The April 2023 online events were extremely well attended and it was a pleasure to see such enthusiastic and passionate teachers benefitting from valuable discussions with colleagues across the region. We hope you continue to enjoy your ECF course.

There are some events still to come after half term for the April 21-22 cohort of ECTs and the January 22-23 cohort of ECTs and Mentors, as well as the remaining catch-up events. Please click here for event information for each cohort.

Registration for September 2023:
The process for ECF registration for September 2023 ECTs and Mentors will be different from previous years. The DfE are making changes to their registration portal and are piloting this with a sample of schools across the country. The feedback for this will enable them to ensure a smooth process when registration opens to all schools. The DfE will stagger the registration process to avoid becoming overwhelmed and will invite you to register directly. 

Registration for ECF will open from 3rd July onwards. To ensure the smoothest start possible in September, please be ready to register your ECTs at this time. Click here for more details on ECF registration.

Education Development Trust (EDT):                       
We are delighted to announce that EDT has received a positive Ofsted result following their recent inspection. We are very proud to work with an organisation which places such high value on developing 'resilience and self-efficacy' which consequently allow ECTs to "build the right foundations to support longevity in the teaching role". To read the full report, please click here.

Based on DfE changes and guidance, EDT are making some changes to the ECF Mentor programme for the 2023-2024 cohort. These changes are to support retention and workload and offer more flexibility. We are excited about these changes and will be providing concrete plans as soon as we can. 

As always, thank you everyone for your enthusiasm and support with our ECF programme. 

Emily
 
Find out more about registration
Find out more about support events

 Appropriate Body: Billie Stewart & Emily Stallard

 Registration
Registration for September ECTs will open at the beginning of July. ECTs will need to be registered both with the DfE (using the DfE online service) and with us on ECT Manager. You can find out more about how to register an ECT on our website, here.

Assessment
The submission window for all assessments is Friday 9th June - Friday 30th June. Please ensure you allow enough time for your ECT to make comments and for the form to be signed by all stakeholders. 

We are running online training sessions on how to complete Formal Assessments, which we strongly advise all Induction Tutors to attend.
The sessions will be on:
  • Monday 5th June 15:30-16:15
  • Wednesday 14th June 16:00-16:45
  • Tuesday 20th June 13:00-13:45
Information on registering ECTs for AB services
Sign up to AB Events

 Summer Briefings
Essential information for September 2023 


To support schools with onboarding ECTs in September 2023, we are hosting online briefing events for Headteachers and Induction Tutors as well as Mentors. To ensure you are fully informed about the changes for 2023, you need to attend one of the following events.

Briefings for Headteachers/Induction Tutors:

  • Tuesday 6th June 16:00-16:45
  • Monday 12th June 12:30-13:15
  • Tuesday 13th June 15:30-16:15
  • Monday 19th June 15:30-16:15
  • Friday 23rd June 08:00-08:45
  • Wednesday 12th July 15:30-16:15

Briefings for Mentors:

  • Tuesday 20th June 08:00-08:30
  • Thursday 22nd June 15:30-16:00
  • Thursday 29th June 16:00-16:30

To sign up to any of these and to see other events we are offering, please visit our Eventbrite page using the link below.
Sign up to Summer Briefings

  National Professional Qualifications : Billie Stewart

Congratulations!
Well done to all those who have recently completed their Autumn 21 Leadership and Spring 22 Specialist National Professional Qualifications with us!

Autumn Term 2023
Applications for 2023-24 are now open. This may be the final fully-funded year of NPQs and we expect applications will be competitive. We are already seeing high levels of interest, so we recommend getting applications in early. 

We will be hosting a full suite-of NPQs across the year and are very excited to be rolling out a selection of specialist NPQs with our regional hubs - more details to follow soon!
 

Funding
Did you know that funding is available for teachers and leaders to complete multiple NPQs? If you or a colleague are ready to move on to your next NPQ, visit our website to find out more!

DfE Targeted Support Fund Offer​

If eligible, participants will be fully funded for each NPQ only once. As part of the targeted support offer fund, for each teacher/leader who takes an NPQ* in 2023-24, their school will additionally receive:​

•£800 grant payment for state-funded primaries with 1-150 pupils​
•£200 grant payment for state-funded primaries with more than 150 pupils​
•£200 grant payment for state-funded secondaries with 1-600 pupils​

Find out more here.​

*not applicable to the NPQ Early Headship Coaching Offer



Briefing Events
If you would like to find out more about the NPQs we offer and how they are run, we are providing a series of online briefing events, both for headteachers and also for prospective applicants. 

Headteacher briefings will be on :

• Friday 9th June 12:30 – 13:00

• Monday 12th June 16:30 – 17:00

• Monday 19th June 08:00 – 08:30


Applicant briefings will be on:

• Tuesday 6th June 13:00 – 13:30

• Monday 12th June 08:00 – 08:30

• Wednesday 21st June 08:00 – 08:30

Sign up at our Eventbrite page here.


Facilitation and Hosting an Event
We are growing our team of facilitators! If you or a colleague are interested in joining our facilitation team or hosting an event at your school, you can find out more about the criteria and what is involved on our website.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Billie
Find out more about the NPQ qualifications
Sign up to NPQ events
Learn more about NPQ Funding
Find out more about facilitating an NPQ

 Initial Teacher Training: Steve Dixon

Our SCITT trainees are currently out in their final placements - we are delighted to be working with four new schools this term who are so enthusiastic in their support for new entrants into the profession. We really appreciate the passion and commitment to teacher training from all our partners.

As we plan ahead for delivery from September 2023, we are aware that the DfE is exploring how to expand the involvement of all schools in ITT. If this is something you have thought about and would like to find out more, please contact us using this enquiry link.

We have some new online information events scheduled for June:

  • Tuesday 13th June 16:30 - 17:30  An event specifically for people working in schools as TAs and tutors who would like to find out more about training to be a teacher.
  • Thursday 15th June 17:00 - 18:00  A general information event for anybody who is thinking about teaching as a career.


For further details of these events, you can click here.

You can also keep up to date with all of our activity via Twitter:
https://twitter.com/TGASCITT
 

 CPD Opportunities


As ever, please visit the websites of our partners below, to see the range of exciting CPD they offer:

 
Find out more
Origin Maths Hub
Little Sutton English Hub
John Taylor Research School
St Matthew's Research School
Bishop Challoner STEM partnership
Birmingham & Central Midlands Computing Hub

   
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