Orion Education

School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT)

School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT)

please note that the closing date for 25-26 is monday 30 june 2025.

 

Orion Education is working in partnership with Teach First to provide School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) where you will gain Qualified Teacher Status and a PGCE.  

Our one-year, research-led training will give you plenty of experience and allows you to train to teach in a school Bromley. Our curriculum focuses on supporting you to put learning into practice to have an impact on pupils during a four day a week school placement from September to July. You will have one day a week to engage in training and development to support your teaching practice, as well as six weeks gaining broader school experience in other educational settings.

The programme balances developing your subject knowledge and expertise alongside giving you a deep understanding of effective teaching methods and techniques to manage your workload and wellbeing.

At the start of the programme in September, you’ll have two weeks of intensive training which will focus on the core areas of teaching such as behaviour management and lesson planning. You will have a further two separate weeks of intensive training later in the year.

In your school, you will spend time with other expert teachers, observing their lessons and learning how to teach and plan lessons and throughout the year practise your own teaching. You will work closely with a highly skilled and knowledgeable mentor, who will also receive support and training from Orion Education.

Your weekly training day is designed in collaboration with Teach First’s expert curriculum designers and sequenced to make sure you are focused on the areas of teaching that are most relevant to that point in the year. The training will include a mixture of online and face-to-face elements and will ensure that you develop the knowledge and skills you need to become a great teacher, gain your QTS and your PGCE.

The programme also includes six weeks in another school, starting in January. You will spend time working with children of a different setting, this may mean spending time in a nursery, a primary school, a secondary school or in post-16, depending on your specialism. These experiences will ensure you have a broad experience and further prepare you for your future career as a teacher.

At the end of the programme, you will have the foundational knowledge and skills to become an effective  teacher alongside achieving a PGCE and Qualified Teacher Status.

About the training provider

Orion Education is a multi-Academy Trust of 8 schools (4 primaries and 4 secondaries) based in Bromley and the Southeast. Our mission is to improve outcomes, transform lives and enable social mobility. Our work is underpinned by our values of trust, kindness and endeavour and we create a strong network of schools which transform the lives of students by enabling them to achieve high educational and personal goals, regardless of their background. We succeed through a clear backbone, a strong culture, academic rigour and smart systems. All of our schools are graded as at least Ofsted Good and outcomes have improved significantly over the last 3 years.

We have an extensive range of experience supporting trainees from the earliest stages in their teaching career through to participation in NPQ programmes and beyond. We invest heavily in our staff through an extensive CPD programme, instructional coaching for all and 1-1 mentoring which you will have access to. Our Initial Teacher Training programme, in partnership with Teach First is led by our best practitioners within our Trust and schools and all who have made demonstrable impact on improving outcomes for pupils.

We are delighted to be partnering with Strive4 Academy Trust and therefore adding two training schools to our profile: Ray Lodge and Farnham Green Primary Schools in Ilford. If you are interested in training with us and being based at a school in Ilford, we would be delighted to receive your application. Here is some further information about Strive4 Academy Trust. 

Strive4 was established in September 2017 and  was founded to make a difference to children's lives; enabling all schools, and children and staff within them, to strive to be the very best they can be. Every day is an opportunity to be better than the last; knowing that the future is being shaped.Strive4 aims to deliver school to school improvement and exceptional learning experiences for both children and staff. Its aim is to develop a ‘family’ of schools where communities are striving for excellence; knowing that every day is a day to be even better than the day before, where going that extra mile for all the children is part of the fabric. Strive4 is passionate that all children are able to achieve; it challenges the myths that only some can. The Trust believes, that in terms of learning, every second counts.

We look forward to working with you. 

 

About the accredited provider

Teach First is a charity that believes education is the most  powerful tool to help a child fulfil their potential. They develop teachers and school leaders and support schools facing the toughest challenges. They have been training teachers for 20 years and are the largest initial teacher training provider in the country. Teach First’s initial teacher training is rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted.

 

 

 

APPLY FOR THIS COURSE HERE