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Stratton Training School
INFORMATION ON TRAINING AVAILABLE
Director of Training – Jane Harper
Stratton has been a Training School since September 2003. We were redesignated in 2007. The primary objective of the Training School is to be a centre of excellence for Initial Teacher Training (ITT) and for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for all colleagues. As a Training School we have access to many CPD networks and local opportunities. We work closely with other Training Schools in the local area and Eastern Region and have contributed nationally to CPD developments in Outreach and Student Voice, amongst other things.
ITT - We host trainees from various training providers including SCITT, University of Bedfordshire, Chiltern Training and the OU. The time a trainee spends at Stratton varies from one week to a whole academic year. During their time with us trainees are involved in all aspects of school life. They will be observing lessons and tracking students. They may therefore wish to spend time in your lessons (and we try to negotiate with and inform departments beforehand). Feedback from all our visitors tells us that the welcome and induction they receive from all staff at Stratton is warm, helpful and makes their placements here very effective.
NQTs – All NQTs have a Programme of Induction, which takes place on Mondays after school in Room 1. The programme runs formally for most of the Autumn Term with sessions spread less frequently across the Spring and Summer Terms. The programme also involves a Peer Coaching project in which the NQTs work with year 2/3 teachers from other subject areas. The purpose of this is to enable them to work on teaching and learning foci throughout the academic year to hone their professional expertise. Training supports this and three of the induction sessions are dedicated to this throughout the year. NQTs have a 10% timetable reduction to support induction activities and are expected to observe more experienced colleagues across the school. Additional CPD funding has been set-aside in the budget to support their activities and this is managed by the Training School and can be accessed via Jane. NQTs are required to meet with Jane – who is the schools professional tutor, in September and at the end of each term to discuss their Career Entry Profile (CEP) and termly Assessment Reports required by the LEA. They are also required to meet their subject mentor once a week for an hour to discuss progress and set targets. NQTs are observed each half term by various staff including the HOD, subject mentor (if different), professional tutor and an LEA advisor. A record of these activities forms part of each Assessment Report.
CPD - We arrange a “Twilight CPD Seminar Programme” each year which is aimed at all staff in our workforce – this usually takes place on Thursdays after school in a variety of venues around school. This programme complements INSED days. The Programme for each year is published separately to all staff when finalised. All staff are expected to attend 6 twilight sessions during the academic year. One INSED day has been disaggregated with the agreement of Unions, to allow this. This enables staff to personalise their CPD and professional learning and link it to performance management targets if appropriate and if desired. The twilight programme includes access to a variety of Oxford Brookes MA modules delivered at Samuel Whitbread and Redborne Training Schools on Thursday evenings – please see Helen for a separate application form if interested.
The Training School makes the arrangements for INSED days. Two INSED days traditionally occur at the start of the academic year for preparation and administration, followed by one in October and one in April – these two days tend to be set aside for professional development – please see calendar for dates. Detailed programmes for each day are published nearer the time.
All staff receive a CPD Portfolio when they join Stratton and gain Certificates for attendance at school led INSED. The Training School has a notice board in the staff room with course information. All forms etc are available on the Q drive, in the staff room and also from Helen. Travel expenses are released on receipt of evaluation forms.
We are currently developing our part of the school website to ensure dissemination of information.
Staff attendance on courses, conferences, seminars, PSGs (Professional Study Groups) and the CPD budget is managed through the Training School. If you wish to attend a course you need to complete a Course Application Form (orange form) and pass to Helen who will make bookings and check that the school can release you – please do not book courses yourself. The CPD Budget is split into Learning areas and the Heads of Area need to agree to the course and the associated expenditure and they have control of their area’s CPD expenditure – which should normally be linked to Improvement Plan priorities.
Stratton Training Partnership – we work
closely with local schools from the East Beds area to support their CPD and
this outreach work is an important part of the Training School’s work. Anne
Pettifor co-ordinates this work. Each Autumn Term she visits schools to
conduct a needs audit and then plans the outreach programme which includes
access to our Twilight Seminars, Stratton ASTs, and the Student Voice Gap
Year Consultant (when in post). This programme aims to meet the needs of our
whole workforce and is available to Stratton staff. CONTACT INFORMATION
Email: stjharper@stratton.beds.sch.uk, Tel 01767 220000, Ext 113.
Administration Assistant – Helen Richards
CPD Co-ordinator for Stratton Learning
Partnership – Anne Pettifor
Email:
stapettifor@stratton.beds.sch.uk, Tel 01767 220000, Ext 178.
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