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.

You will be placed in one of our training schools within Kent. In addition to this you will undertake a contrasting placement in a different school setting within one of our partner schools. In each school you will have access to a high quality mentor who has been trained to the highest standards. Placement schools will be decided in negotiation with our schools and in response to your needs, taking into account your travel arrangements.

School placements

We work with the following schools to provide your school placements.

• Coopers School
  Hawkwood Lane, Chislehurst, Kent, BR7 5PS                                                                            www.coopersschool.com
• Eden Park High School
  Balmoral Avenue, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3RD                                                                  www.edenparkhigh.com
• The Ravensbourne School                                                                                                                                     Hayes Lane, Bromley, Kent BR2 9EH                                                                                   www.ravensbourne.info

• Ravensworth Primary School                                                                                                                  Ravensworth Road, London SE9 4LW                                                                        www.ravensworthprimary.co.uk
• Spires Academy                                                                                                                                                  Bredlands Ln, Canterbury CT2 0HD                                                                                        www.spiresacademy.com
• Scotts Park Primary School                                                                                                                                Orchard Road, Bromley BR1 2PR                                                                                www.scottsparkprimaryschool.co.uk
• Blenheim Primary School                                                                                                                            Blenheim Road, Orpington, BR6 9BH                                                                                      www.blenheimprimary.com
• Mead Road Infant School                                                                                                                                   Mead Rd, Chislehurst BR7 6AD                                                                                www.meadroadinfantschool.co.uk

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