In this Newsletter:
- Message from the Director of TSH
- Early Career Framework
- Appropriate Body
- National Professional Qualifications
- Initial Teacher Training
- Head Teacher Advocate
- Lead School Hub for the National Consortium for Languages Education
- CPD Opportunities
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Message from the Director of TSH, Emma Hatton:
Dear all,
Welcome to your first Tudor Grange Teaching School Hub newsletter of the new academic year! We are well entrenched into the term now, aren't we? The weather has definitely taken a turn!
This newsletter comes with all the optimism and promise that a new school year brings. In Teaching School Hub, we have our own CPD programme and some of the things that we have been thinking carefully about will resonate with many of you, especially those of you who have engaged in an NPQ. We have been thinking about professional culture and environment and the work of Kraft and Papay has been important to us in that. We have also been looking at how we can further embed Robinson's 'ladder of inference' into our work, to help with strategic planning. This short clip explores it well https://youtu.be/Ak-MP_0UVEw
At the start of the year, we are delighted to be able to announce an important development in how Tudor Grange Teaching School Hub can best serve all of our schools.
We are proudly working with Shires MAT in the leadership and delivery of our NPQ suite. Teacher Development Trust continues to be our Lead Provider, and we continue to be enthused about the high quality programmes they offer. Our feedback from participants and facilitators is showing great impact in schools, and our measurement of this is influenced by Guskey's proposals for effective evaluation of professional development. You can find out more about that here Professional-Learning-1-Gauge-Impact-with-Five-Levels-of-Data.pdf (tguskey.com)
We hope that working in collaboration with Shires will enable the TSH offer to be more localised as we are able to base our NPQs at schools which may be closer to colleagues in Worcestershire and Warwickshire. In addition to this, we hope that with more colleagues in Warwickshire and Worcestershire facilitating these qualifications, the discussions and examples used within programmes will ensure a great offer for participants, with a strong appreciation of local context and enriched networking.
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 Early Career Framework: Emily Stallard 
Welcome back everyone and we hope that you are enjoying a positive start to the new academic year. We have been busy onboarding over 200 ECTs and Mentors for a new cohort. Thank you to everyone for your efforts in registering your ECTs and mentors, it has so far been a smooth process and we are delighted to be developing partnerships with several more schools this year.
If you have not yet registered your ECTs and mentors for their ECF course, and would like to use Tudor Grange Teaching School Hub for this provision, please find details as to how to register here.
For those of you already working with us, please make use of our website where you can find all the information you need for the ECF course including key requirements, online learning and events. As school leads and induction tutors, you will find this webpage most useful where you can have an overview of all participant activity for ECF.
Emily
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 Appropriate Body: Billie Stewart & Emily Stallard
Registration for Appropriate Body
The hard deadline for registering your ECTs for the September cohort is the 17th October 2023. All ECTs who are registered after this will automatically be put on the January cohort for their induction. We are unable to backdate any induction period, so please register soon if required.
Click here for more details on the Appropriate Body registration process.
Service Level Agreements
You should by now have received a link to the Service Level Agreement required for your school to access Appropriate Body Services. If you have not, please get in touch via tsh@tgacademy.org.uk .
Invoices
Invoices will be raised and sent out at the end of November for Appropriate Body Services.
Assessment Window
The assessment window this term is 7th November - 24th November.
Billie and Emily
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 National Professional Qualifications : Billie Stewart
Shires MAT Partnership
We are thrilled to announce our partnership with the Shires MAT, with whom we will be offering the NPQ for Leading Teaching, NPQ for Leading Teacher Development and NPQ for Leading Behaviour and Culture, as well as the National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership. We hope that by establishing this partnership we will be able to bring you more contextualised, relevant NPQs with a reduced travel time for face to face events.
Application Deadlines
We still have some places available for the Autumn 23 cohorts. The deadline for these applications is the 18th October 2023.
Too soon? We are running a selection of NPQs in the Spring Term. The deadline for the Spring cohort applications is the 5th February 2023. Find out more here.
Assessments
Well done to those who have completed their assessments for the Leadership NPQs earlier this month, and good luck to those embarking on their assessments for the Specialist NPQs next week! Further information about assessments can be found on the TDT Learn platform.
Early Headship Coaching Offer
Are you in the first 5 years of your headship and have you completed/are completing an NPQH? If so, you are eligible for the Early Headship Coaching Offer -12 months of 1:1 coaching sessions with an experienced local head teacher. Apply through our website.
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!
Your school may be eligible for the Targeted Support Offer which provides additional funding for schools to release teachers for NPQs*:
•£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
Billie
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 Initial Teacher Training: Steve Dixon
As always, as we begin picking up the pace of all our workstreams at this time of year the summer holiday seems a long time ago!
In ITT, you may have heard reference to ‘Recommendation 10’. This relates to the strands of crucial work to be undertaken by all Teaching School Hubs as we look to meet the long-term needs of the profession. In addressing the first strand of ‘Recommendation 10’, we are excited to have continued our primary delivery of ITT as a partner for Teach First in their pilot school-centred training programme. This means we are already meeting the higher bar for the quality standards which will be expected across the sector from September 2024. Our joint expertise also means that our new cohort of trainees are already benefitting from the resources and structures of a national provider, whilst receiving high quality training, care and support from local expert colleagues. All trainees have now started in their core placement schools and are excited to begin making a difference to the children they will be teaching.
The second strand of ‘Recommendation 10’ relates to the role of Teaching School Hubs in building capacity to support ITT in their respective regions. We are delighted to have added the experience and expertise of Helen Dunnico to our team. Helen has shared a little of her background below, and has already made great strides in gathering a really precise and accurate profile of the engagement of schools with ITT in our region – and the complications that can go with this. If you haven’t spoken with Helen yet, she may be in touch with you soon!
Recruitment for trainees for 2024-2025 opens at the beginning of October – we will have a range of information events to share with you in future newsletters. In the meantime, if you would like to find out more about our work, or have any questions about ITT, you can contact us using this link.
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Head Teacher Advocate: Helen Dunnico
I joined the team at Tudor Grange Teaching School Hub in September after gaining 34 years experience in education, working as a class teacher, senior leader and for the last 15 years as a Head Teacher. I have spent the majority of my career in Birmingham Schools before moving to take up a second headship in Warwickshire in 2017. During my time as both a teacher and leader I have been driven by the desire to ensure that children receive an excellent education, leading to good outcomes for all.
My official job title here at the Teaching School Hub is Head Teacher Advocate. My role focuses on Initial Teacher Training, with the aim of supporting schools in the Hub region to engage with ITT, so that the next generation of teachers have purposeful, positive experiences to start their careers. Having worked with many students during my time in schools, both as a teacher and a leader, I recognise the importance and benefits of working with trainees, but I also understand that there are challenges, and that commitment is required.
I have already started contacting schools in the Hub region to gain a picture of the current provision and would like to thank those Head Teachers I have spoken to for their time. I will be contacting all schools within the next few months.
There are some significant changes taking place within ITT. I hope to have the opportunity to speak to many of you in the coming months to share the structure of ITT provision ensuring that you can make informed decisions about your engagement. As a former Head Teacher, I appreciate the pressures and demands on resources, and I am looking forward to working collaboratively with you all to support the next generation of teachers.
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Lead Hub School for the National Consortium for Languages Education
Tudor Grange Academy is excited to be able to announce that we have been selected as a Lead Hub School for the National Consortium for Languages Education.
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/language-hubs-19-schools-named-in-first-round-of-15m-reboot/
We are very proud in being selected as a Lead Hub School to drive improvement in Languages with up to seven partner schools.
We are looking forward to being involved in such an exciting venture to support high quality languages education in England.
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 CPD Opportunities
Codifying your Pupil Premium
Tudor Grange Teaching School Hub is delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for senior leaders (including principals and executive principals) and pupil premium leads in schools interested in improving the accuracy and efficacy of their pupil premium strategy. Secondary and Primary pathways are available for this course, which involves a face-to-face workshop in October 2023, followed by an online session in April 2024. Further details, including how to register your interest can be found here.
Little Sutton English Hub - Supporting Early Language Development
Little Sutton English Hub is now taking bookings for an exciting new FREE CPD opportunity for early years and KS1 practitioners.
This six-session course entitled ‘Supporting Early Language Development’ is designed to equip teachers and leaders with a practical pedagogical understanding of typical language development and how to support pupils who are struggling with language acquisition.
The course is primarily aimed at EYFS and KS1 practitioners such as early years leads, English leads, and SENDCO. Staff members will take responsibility for the cascading of training within their school. Each session will explore a different issue and it is expected that delegates will attend ALL sessions, so please ensure availability prior to booking.
A leaflet regarding this course, showing session dates, can be found here and to book, please click here.
Thrive
Please follow the attached links to find out more about the Thrive Approach in Primary and Secondary schools and Thrive Online.
Thrive Approach Journey for Primary Schools
Thrive Approach Journey for Secondary Schools
Thrive Online
Origin Maths Hub - Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics
Are you a new Secondary mathematics teacher or do you have a newly qualified maths teacher in your department? Would you like to access a free programme of maths CPD tailored to the needs of newly qualified maths teachers?
Origin Maths Hub is offering a maths specific CPD programme for Early Career Maths Teachers, this programme complements the ECF programme while offering subject specific CPD to new maths teaches. As with everything Origin offers this programme is completely free for your school.
See below for more details and the link to book your place:
https://originmathshub.tgacademy.org.uk/opportunities/specialist-knowledge-for-teaching-mathematics-secondary-early-career-teacher-community/
As ever, please also visit the websites of our partners below, to see the range of other exciting CPD they offer:
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