Insight to Partnerships: Second School Placement

INSIGHT TO PARTNERSHIPS The bridge between e-Qualitas and schools to ensure trainees thrive to become high quality teachers to the profession.

Programme Delivery Partnerships

Season's Greetings! As we sprint towards the final week of term, I would like to take the opportunity to share some of the many highlights of the half term with you.

Claire Delaney, Director of Partnerships

Programme Delivery Partnerships Wellbeing for All

Our focus this year

School Partnerships on the Board

School Partnerships on the Board We are delighted to have school representatives join us on our SCITT Board and Curriculum & Quality Assurance Board. The Board meetings have benefited from discussions and feedback on the programme design and delivery, quality assurance plans, improvement plan targets and wellbeing updates.

Thank you to the following schools for your insight and time.

Mulberry School Avanti School Trust Royal Harbour Academy Beechen Cliff Bushey Meads School Lewisham Midsomer Norton School

Hylands School St Pauls RC Primary School Brookfield Copthorne Preparatory Drapers Brookside Zenith Multi Academy Trust

We’re delighted that TKAT Director David Linsell joined us as the Visiting Fellow on the Elective, ‘A Champion for every child – Crossing the divide for disadvantaged pupils’ Trainees were given a presentation by David on the ACE programme and the ways in which it can be used to support relationship building in schools. Trainees were able to discuss the ways in which education research is constructed and David shared the impact evaluation report.

A further drop in on December 6th was available for trainees to return and discuss ways in which they had taken forward the enquiry question that David had posed.

We heard from trainees who had embarked on relationship building strategies with pupils and the positive impact this had on behaviour and engagement. Thank you to TKAT. Mulberry School have worked closely with Joanna Igoe, our Subject Lead, on organising the Science Disciplinary Days.

We welcome this level of partnership working as it will hugely benefit trainees to have a science lab to work in on these training days. Thank you to Mulberry.

Wellbeing for All e-Qualitas is committed to working with partnership schools to promote the positive mental and emotional health and wellbeing of trainees, mentors, and tutors and to provide appropriate support and guidance wherever it is needed. Visit our Wellbeing page to learn more or, read the latest ‘Winter Wellness Newsletter’, linked here.

Our Focus This Year Autumn Half term - Highlights on the Programme Throughout the term our trainees have joined us for training days and sessions, both face-to-face and virtually. Click the play buttons to view training day highlights.

Secondary English Training Day

Primary Phonics Training Day Secondary Science Training Day

Primary Maths Training Day

Improve trainee outcomes Sustain percentage of Trainees gaining QTS above 91% for the third consecutive year Improve trainee completion Improve completion rate of Male and BAME Trainees in line with National Agenda Improve completion rate of the Apprenticeship Assessment Improve the quality of design and delivery of the Programme.

Ensure 90% of trainees rate their experience on the programme as good Improve the trainee experience on the Programme to ensure all trainees receive high quality support Ensure 90% trainees rate the support received from mentors and tutors as good/very good

SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON...

Second School Placement - 5 Ways To Ensure a Successful Placement For Trainees

The Role of the ‘Home’ School

Second School Placement Guidance

Second School Placement Induction pack for Mentors

Communication of Second School Placement Details Working together

The Role of the ‘Home’ School Please ensure you are familiar with the responsibilities for the second school placement.

It is the responsibility of the trainee's 'home' school to arrange for the trainee teacher to teach in a contrasting school for a 6-week placement in the first Spring half term.

Manage the second school placement to ensure that it is a productive experience which enables the trainee teacher to broaden his or her experience.

Work with the mentor at the second school to ensure they understand their role and responsibilities.

Host trainee teachers from other schools on second school placements (where applicable). Provide support and training to these placement trainee teachers as for the School’s own trainees and give effective feedback and reports. e-Qualitas Partnership Agreement 2022-24 p5 The Lead Trainer will arrange for second school placements and visits for trainees from other schools, as requested and if appropriate; and manage the trainees’ experience and training to make it as productive a placement as possible. e-Qualitas Partnership Agreement 2022-24 p19 The Mentor will liaise with the second school, to ensure that this is a productive experience that enables the trainee to broaden his or her experience. e-Qualitas Partnership Agreement 2022-24 p21 The second school placement is subject to approval by eQualitas. If e-Qualitas considers the school identified for the second placement is not suitable, the School will work with eQualitas to find another, suitable school.

Communication of Second School Placement Details Communication of the second school placement details to the central team is essential as it enables: e-Qualitas to report the DfE ITT criteria in respect to the second placement is met Provides a central record for second school placement details Ensures relevant support information reaches the Second School Placement ahead of trainees in January Thank you to those who submitted the details of the second school placements. If you have not already done so, it is essential the task is completed before the end of term.

The online form for submitting the information is available here. It will take approximately 10 minutes.

Second School Placement Induction pack for Mentors: Mentors at the Second School Placement will receive an Induction pack to the eQ Curriculum from us at eQ. This will include: A video message from the Director of Curriculum and Director of Partnerships.

An example mentor bulletin - explaining how they can use it within support meetings Rubrics The Half Termly Report Lesson Observation form Mentor Elements Curriculum on a page eQ curriculum on a page Please ensure the details of the Placement have been communicated to E-Qualitas to ensure the information is received by the right person.

Working Together

Second School Placement Guidance Trainees received a copy of the Second School Guidance to support them during their placement.

This is a helpful document which sets out clearly the objectives of the placement. You can access this via this link.

We would like to extend our gratitude for the time and effort in arranging the Second School Placement for your trainee(s) ahead of the Spring Term. The cohesion of schools working together to enable trainees to be on placement at the same time, is appreciated. It provides a trainee with a valuable experience for developing their practice further – so thank you for putting plans in place.