TGTSH News Bulletin September 2021

CONTENTS

Key Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Joint Teaching School Hub Event . . . . . .

Early Career Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Appropriate Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

National Professional Qualifications. . . .

Opportunities/Upcoming Events . . . . . . .

CPD Opportunity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Initial Teacher Training. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kent & Medway Maths Hub. . . . . . . . . . . .

Science Learning Partnership . . . . . . . . . .

English Hub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Dartford & Maidstone Computing Hubs

MFL Hub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Contact Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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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

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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

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.

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

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.

Appropriate Body

Thames Gateway Teaching School Hub are expanding our professional and leadership development offer by offering our services as an ECT Appropriate Body.

Cost for this work is graduated depending on a school’s choice in their delivery of the Early Career Framework. For schools delivering the ECF through a fully funded Full Induction Programme our costs will be £200/ECT (£100/Yr/ECT).

All ECTs should now be registered with an Appropriate Body service, and if you wish to use TGTSH please register your interest via this Google form.

TGTSH will be reviewing the ECT Manager portal over the coming weeks and approving the ECT registrations. An email will follow in due course with assessment templates and assessment dates.

National Professional Qualifications

The start of the academic year is an excellent time to turn our attention to staff professional development needs for the year ahead.

The new suite of NPQs will support and challenge your staff to develop their skills and participate in evidence based learning to gain a valuable professional qualification.

We are delighted to be working with Leadership Learning South East (LLSE) to deliver the reformed NPQ framework across Medway, Gravesham and Dartford and the wider area of Kent.

Courses will begin in November 2021 and February 2022 . You can apply via this link.

The new suite of NPQs are -

Leading Teacher Development (NPQLTD)
Leading Teaching (NPQLT)
Leading Behaviour and Culture (NPQLBC)
Senior leadership (NPQSL)
Headship (NPQH)
Executive Leadership (NPQEL)

Application deadline : 15 October 2021.

National Professional Qualifications

In order to ensure you are fully informed of the course content, expectations and assessment methods join us for one of our free webinars where we can support you to ensure you select the right course for you.

Each webinar will cover one of the qualifications, please ensure that you have signed up to attend the webinar for the course/s you are interested in.

Monday 20 September, 4.00 - 4.30 pm : Leading Teacher Development
Monday 20 September, 4.30 - 5.00 pm : Leading Teaching
Monday 20 September, 5.00 - 5.30 pm : Leading Behaviour & Culture
Monday 27 September, 4.00 - 4.30 pm : Senior Leadership
Monday 27 September, 4.30 - 5.00 pm : Headship
Monday 27 September, 5.00 - 5.30 pm : Executive Leadership

Please register your attendance via this google form.
Please email enquiries@tgtsh.org.uk if you have problems accessing the form.

OPPORTUNITIES / UPCOMING EVENTS

Our calendar of keynote speakers begins on Tuesday 12 October where we will be joined by Andy Vass. Further details can be found on the next page.

Also confirmed this year, we are looking forward to welcoming :

Matt Bromley - Supporting students with SEND
Tuesday 23 November 2021- 4.30-5.30pm

Andy Griffith - Developing Cultural Capital
Tuesday 25 January 2022 - 4.30-5.30pm

Gary Wilson - Raising Boys' Achievement
Tuesday 8 February 2022

Sam Kary & Mark Kerr - Integrating Technology
in the Classroom
Tuesday 15 March 2022 - 4.30-5.30pm

Dylan Wiliam - Embedding Formative Assessment
Tuesday 10 May 2022 - 4.30-5.30pm

All key speakers will be charged at £40 per delegate. Rates for whole school sign up are available. Further details on how to register for these events will follow in due course.