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KEY DATES
14 & 15 September : ECT Online Welcome Events
20 & 27 September : NPQ Briefing Webinars
5 October : Teaching School Hubs Launch Event
5 October : HLTA Training (Day 1)
11 October : Local Group Training for ECTs
12 October : Guest Speaker - Andy Vass
15 October : Application deadline for NPQ programmes
21 October : Welcoming & Supporting Refugee Pupils in UK Classrooms
10 November : ELSA Training (Day 1)
Future CPD Opportunities
20 & 27 September : NPQ Briefing Webinars
5 October : Teaching School Hubs Launch Event
5 October : HLTA Training (Day 1)
11 October : Local Group Training for ECTs
12 October : Guest Speaker - Andy Vass
15 October : Application deadline for NPQ programmes
21 October : Welcoming & Supporting Refugee Pupils in UK Classrooms
10 November : ELSA Training (Day 1)
Future CPD Opportunities
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Welcome
from Esther Cook, Director
Dear Colleagues,
It’s been a fantastic start to the life of the Thames Gateway Teaching School Hub, with new and exciting beginnings across all areas of our work. From ITT induction to the launch of the newly reformed NPQEL for Executive Leadership, our professional development offer is starting to take roots and begin the work of supporting our partners. Our ambition remains the same, to provide excellent professional development opportunities to support educators as they shape the lives of every child in our region. We have been particularly excited at the number of schools and colleagues who are partnering with us in this work, and are delighted to be welcoming colleagues as facilitators, mentors, early career teachers, and founding participants in our new offer for the Specialist and Leadership NPQs.
As with all new endeavours, this is a time of tremendous growth, especially as we as a system move into the delivery of the ECF-based Induction for our Early Career Teachers. This exciting and important new resource, which we are providing through the Education Development Trust, is set to become a vital and valued trellis, supporting our colleagues who are new to the profession, as well as a fantastic opportunity for those mentoring and supporting them. The fully funded National Professional Qualification for those Leading Teacher Development will be an additional tool for these colleagues.
We are particularly looking forward to welcoming colleagues at our ECF and Appropriate body Inductions next week, and to receiving applications, via our partners at LLSE and through the Church of England, by the end of September. Our official launch is then taking place in conjunction with our colleagues across the County on 5th October. This will be held in our beautiful Chatham Dockyard and looks to be a real celebration of the opportunities our Hubs provide for Professional Development across all ages, stages and subjects.
As we enjoy a season of change and growth, thank you for your partnership and collaboration. Please stay in touch with queries, questions, comments and feedback as we journey into these new opportunities together.
Very best wishes,
Esther Cook - Hub Director, Thames Gateway TSH
It’s been a fantastic start to the life of the Thames Gateway Teaching School Hub, with new and exciting beginnings across all areas of our work. From ITT induction to the launch of the newly reformed NPQEL for Executive Leadership, our professional development offer is starting to take roots and begin the work of supporting our partners. Our ambition remains the same, to provide excellent professional development opportunities to support educators as they shape the lives of every child in our region. We have been particularly excited at the number of schools and colleagues who are partnering with us in this work, and are delighted to be welcoming colleagues as facilitators, mentors, early career teachers, and founding participants in our new offer for the Specialist and Leadership NPQs.
As with all new endeavours, this is a time of tremendous growth, especially as we as a system move into the delivery of the ECF-based Induction for our Early Career Teachers. This exciting and important new resource, which we are providing through the Education Development Trust, is set to become a vital and valued trellis, supporting our colleagues who are new to the profession, as well as a fantastic opportunity for those mentoring and supporting them. The fully funded National Professional Qualification for those Leading Teacher Development will be an additional tool for these colleagues.
We are particularly looking forward to welcoming colleagues at our ECF and Appropriate body Inductions next week, and to receiving applications, via our partners at LLSE and through the Church of England, by the end of September. Our official launch is then taking place in conjunction with our colleagues across the County on 5th October. This will be held in our beautiful Chatham Dockyard and looks to be a real celebration of the opportunities our Hubs provide for Professional Development across all ages, stages and subjects.
As we enjoy a season of change and growth, thank you for your partnership and collaboration. Please stay in touch with queries, questions, comments and feedback as we journey into these new opportunities together.
Very best wishes,
Esther Cook - Hub Director, Thames Gateway TSH
Joint Teaching School Hub Event - Tuesday 5 October 2021
We are delighted to be working with Colleagues at Kent TSH to invite schools across Medway and Kent to our launch celebration.
Being offered in person, free of charge, at the beautiful Historic Dockyard in Chatham, the event on Tuesday 5 October will be repeated, running at 9 am and 1pm to allow plenty of space and the opportunity to meet colleagues from the full suite of Curriculum Hubs. We are also thrilled to be joined by Robert Coe from the Education Endowment Foundation and Heather Fearn from Ofsted.
This is shaping up to be a significant event, bringing together the opportunity to access a wealth of professional development, most of which are fully funded by the DfE.
Please register your attendance here.
Being offered in person, free of charge, at the beautiful Historic Dockyard in Chatham, the event on Tuesday 5 October will be repeated, running at 9 am and 1pm to allow plenty of space and the opportunity to meet colleagues from the full suite of Curriculum Hubs. We are also thrilled to be joined by Robert Coe from the Education Endowment Foundation and Heather Fearn from Ofsted.
This is shaping up to be a significant event, bringing together the opportunity to access a wealth of professional development, most of which are fully funded by the DfE.
Please register your attendance here.
Early Career Framework
Thames Gateway Teaching School Hub (TGTSH) is excited to officially welcome all ECT’s embarking on their ECF based induction with Educational Development Trust and TGTSH as their delivery partner in online sessions this week. All ECT’s have been invited to join us for this online event and must register via the booking form for the most appropriate event :
A: Welcome Event for ECT’s using Thames Gateway Teaching school Hub for their Appropriate Body Service as well as their Early Career Framework Induction with Education Development Trust. (EDT)
Tuesday 14th September
Online 4.00- 4.45pm
Booking Form
NB: If you are yet to secure a provider for AB services, please feel free to join us for the first 20 minutes during which we will be talking about our activity and commitments in our AB role.
or:
B.Welcome Event for ECT's using EDT/ TGTSH for their Early Career Framework Training (Appropriate Body service being supplied by another provider)
Wednesday 15th September
Online 4.00- 4.30pm
Booking Form
A: Welcome Event for ECT’s using Thames Gateway Teaching school Hub for their Appropriate Body Service as well as their Early Career Framework Induction with Education Development Trust. (EDT)
Tuesday 14th September
Online 4.00- 4.45pm
Booking Form
NB: If you are yet to secure a provider for AB services, please feel free to join us for the first 20 minutes during which we will be talking about our activity and commitments in our AB role.
or:
B.Welcome Event for ECT's using EDT/ TGTSH for their Early Career Framework Training (Appropriate Body service being supplied by another provider)
Wednesday 15th September
Online 4.00- 4.30pm
Booking Form
The Education Development Trusts training platform went live on Monday 6th September and it’s been fantastic to see so many ECTs, Mentors and Tutors engaging with the training resources already. If you haven't received log in details for the platform yet, please ensure you have entered all contact information in the DfE ‘Manage ECT Portal’. Name and email addresses of ECTs, Mentors and Tutors are required to generate your log in details by EDT. https://manage-training-for-early-career-teachers.education.gov.uk/
Finally, you will shortly be receiving details confirming your local cluster group and the dates, times and venues for face to face training events for the remainder of the academic year. We have already shared the indicative date ranges for these events with you and have included them again here:
Mentor Training
Local Cluster Sessions w/c 20th September (3 hours)
ECT Training
Local Cluster Session 1 w/c 11th October (3 hours)
Local Cluster Session 2 w/c 2nd May (3 hours)
Regional conferences for all ECT’s have been scheduled for
Tuesday 25th January & Friday 28th January.
Regional conferences for all Mentors have been scheduled for Wednesday 19th January & Friday 21st January.
Finally, you will shortly be receiving details confirming your local cluster group and the dates, times and venues for face to face training events for the remainder of the academic year. We have already shared the indicative date ranges for these events with you and have included them again here:
Mentor Training
Local Cluster Sessions w/c 20th September (3 hours)
ECT Training
Local Cluster Session 1 w/c 11th October (3 hours)
Local Cluster Session 2 w/c 2nd May (3 hours)
Regional conferences for all ECT’s have been scheduled for
Tuesday 25th January & Friday 28th January.
Regional conferences for all Mentors have been scheduled for Wednesday 19th January & Friday 21st January.