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Dear colleague,
Welcome back, and we hope you had an enjoyable half-term break.
In November, we are commencing our next cohort of NPQs, which includes our newest programme, NPQSENCO. Thank you to all that have signed up, and we look forward to meeting you this coming week!
In this month's newsletter we focus on the funded secondary and post 16 CPD provided by your local Computing Hub in our spotlight section. In the coffee break section, we look at the Carneige School of Education's 'A guide to attuned authentic coaching for teachers'.
Thank you to the schools who took the time to complete our school leader satisfaction survey. If you have done so, please keep an eye out on your emails as you may have been randomly selected as the winner of a £50 Amazon gift voucher.
Kind regards,
Alan and the Potentia Team
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School involvement in ITT benefits teachers, trainees and pupils. It enables leaders to spot and nurture talent and creates opportunities for the whole school team to engage in professional dialogue about evidence-informed practice.
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The recruitment window has now opened for teacher training courses to start in September 2025. Do you know someone in your school community who has expressed an interest in training to teach? If so, these websites may be helpful to signpost:
Get Into Teaching | Get Into Teaching GOV.UK This service provides free advice and support to anyone considering teaching as a career.
Apply for teacher training - GOV.UK This is the service to apply for a teacher training course.
Funding: initial teacher training (ITT), academic year 2025 to 2026 - GOV.UK The DfE has now announced the financial incentives for ITT courses starting in 2025.
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Primary PGCE programme with University of Derby
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Now the recruitment window has opened, we are currently interviewing candidates for the primary PGCE programme we offer with University of Derby. This is the provider-led, school-based route for 3-7 or 5-11. School mentors who are supporting the current cohort are benefitting from high-quality mentor training from the University of Derby, exploring how to use instructional coaching and reflective models to support trainees’ developing practice.
We work closely with successful candidates to organise their placements once they have accepted a place on the programme. This provides an opportunity for them to visit school in spring, in preparation for the start of the course. Would you like to indicate an interest in offering a school placement in September 2025? Contact itt@potentiatsh.co.uk
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Secondary PGCE Placements from September 2025
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As we mentioned in the September newsletter, plans are in place to offer a secondary ITT programme with University of Derby from September 2025. This will be the school-based, provider-led route. From January 2025, we will be seeking support from secondary schools to support with interviews and with placements.
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Several colleagues have already been in touch to indicate that they would like to be involved in this process. If you would like to be involved and have not yet contacted us, please do so at itt@potentiatsh.co.uk
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National Professional Qualifications (NPQs)
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We are now a Delivery Partner for Teach First for our NPQ programmes, which have now started. To find out more about Teach First as an organisation, you can either go to their website - teachfirst.org.uk or watch this short video to find out more.
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Here is a quote from the above video clip above to explain Teach First as an organisation.
"One in four children in the UK live in poverty. They don’t get the opportunities they need to thrive in school. And when they leave, they’re more likely to end up out of work or further training. Teach First are here to help them fulfil their potential. Since 2003, they have been improving the life chances and choices for children experiencing poverty. They train talented teachers and equip school leaders working in some of the poorest areas of the country – to give children with the fewest opportunities access to a great education. They are a community working inside the classroom and beyond. To bring an end to educational inequality. Because a child’s future shouldn’t depend on their postcode".
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Our October 2024 cohort of NPQs are now underway with Teach First, and we are delighted to announce we are running the following NPQS with these facilitators -
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Missed out on an NPQ this time? Complete our EOI for an April 2025 start!
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To express an interest in starting a NPQ with us for the next cohort due to start in April 2025. Please register your interest using this EOI form or scan the QR code opposite.
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Contact Jan Pierce on npq@potentiatsh.co.uk for any further information.
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Early Career Teachers (ECTs)
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The Induction Period for ECTs, Mentors and Induction Tutors
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All ECTs should now be registered for their induction period – if you have an ECT working in your school, and you’ve not registered them on the DfE or ECT Manager, please email ect@potentiatsh.co.uk, and we can support you with this.
Below is an infographic for ECTs and Mentors and the requirements for both induction and ECF this Autumn Term.
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To support the progress / assessment writing process we are holding a webinar for all induction tutors.
Thursday 28th November 3:30 – 4:15pm
Invitations for this will be sent to all Heads and Induction Tutors via ECT Manager, nearer to the time.
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Exciting Maths Project for ECTs
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The local Maths Hubs have a project on offer to support Year 1 and Year 2 ECTs in Maths (Primary and Secondary level).
“This?project offers high-quality subject knowledge and pedagogy maths support for ECTs, recognising the requirements of the ECF”
To find out more, please have a look at the flyers:
Primary
Secondary
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Contact details for all Early Career Teacher queries ect@potentiatsh.co.uk
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An introduction to your local computing hub - Secondary and Post-16 provision
North Midlands Computing Hub is your local, DfE funded, subject specialism hub. Our role is to support you with delivering an effective computing curriculum from KS3 to KS5.
CPD
There are a wide range of free face-to-face and live-remote courses available. For the full list visit Teach Computing. Each school can claim up to two subsidies of £205 per academic year for any course that is related to the KS3 and GCSE Computing Subject Knowledge Certificate. These subsidies are to help pay for supply cover costs.
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Preparing for Ofsted in secondary computing - short course 6th November online
Teaching GCSE computer science: improving student engagement 7th November online
Boolean logic in A Level computer science 18th November, Stoke 6th Form
Foundation knowledge of computer science for KS3 and GCSE 25th November, Stoke 6th Form
Systems architecture in A Level computer science – 28th November, Stoke 6th Form
Physical Computing
Class sets of micro:bits, Data Loggers, Raspberry Pi Bs with Sense Hats and Raspberry Pi Picos are available to loan for half a term to support physical computing provision. We also run free 90-minute courses to help you get the most from your physical computing kits.
Curriculum Support
If you would like support reviewing your curriculum and provision, we can support you with this. Please get in touch.
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For further information, please contact your Secondary Lead Neil Crumpton via ncrumpton@potteries.ac.uk
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In this month's coffee break we would like to share with you the Carneige School of Education 'A guide to attuned authentic coaching for teachers (AACT)'
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AACT was co-created by a group of teachers, teacher educators and coaches as a response to the surge in teacher coaching.
AACT is based on cycles of engagement and participation enabling co-enquiry between the coach and the teacher.It is an emergent model. As the initial work of the co-creation group ended, they invited colleagues working in and with schools to play with the approach, to deduce its potential, and to adapt it to suit their contexts.
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If you would like to know more, you can download the AACT guide.
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