Welcome to the LDE Newsletter. Here is your April/May update from the Teaching School Hub!
News in Brief:
Updated ECF Programme - ECTE for Sept 2025 - new brochure.
Online ECT and ECT Mentor Clinics - coming up in Summer 2.
Appropriate Body Training: Cause for Concern ECTs
NPQs: Autumn 2025 NPQs - Update
NPQs: NPQSL Impact Case Study - Nilesh Hirani NPQSL
Ambition Teacher Training: Train to Teach Webinars/School Exp
ITT Strategic Role: Arrange a 1:1 meetings with the Hub Team?
DfE update: Secondary Reading Training in conjunction with Royal Holloway University
EY Stronger Practice Hub: Early Years Conference - May 2025
East London Research School: Early language webinar
Education Endowment Foundation (EEF): Join an EEF project
Maths Hub: A Maths Specialist in every Secondary School
Early Career Teacher Programme
Exciting changes to the ECT programme for September 2025.
ECT support will now be known as the ECTE - the Early Career Teacher Entitlement
Please see the new brochure from Ambition Institute on the ECT Programme for September 2025.
Early Career Teacher Programme
ECT Training in Summer Term
Year 1 ECTs in Summer Term
ECT Clinic 3:
Giving Effective Feedback to all Pupils
Online: 3:45 - 5pm
Dates and Zoom Links on My Ambition
Year
2 ECTs in Summer Term
ECT Clinic 6:
Effective implementation in class!
Online: 3:45 - 5pm
Dates and Zoom Links on My Ambition
All details can be found in My Ambition Events.
Early Career Teacher Programme
Engagement with Steplab
Induction Tutors can download a variety of data about their school and track all participants on the programme.
It is imperative that all coaching sessions are logged and action steps are chosen from Steplab. This ensures your school meets its statutory duty to expose ECTs to the full Early Career Framework.
Coaching for Mentors
We are able to offer any Mentors a 1:1 session to support with instructional coaching, using Steplab or .
1:1 Induction Tutor Coaching
We can also meet on Teams with Induction Tutors at any time support is needed.
Recorded Steplab Training Sessions are on the LDE website: https://londondistricteast.org/early-career-teachers/steplab-training/
Appropriate
Body Services
Appropriate Body Training
Tuesday 6 May 3:45pm th Cause for Concern ECTs
Full details on ECT Manager...
Sarah and Michelle will take you through ‘Cause for Concern’ ECTs. How you need to mark ECTs as ‘not on track’ if they know they are struggling and not leave their concerns to Term 5 or 6, when it might be too late!
Appropriate Body Team: - all email addresses and hotlines on our website.
Martin Redfern - Appropriate Body Lead + Barking and Dagenham
Sarah Bartley - Lead Appropriate Body Advisor: Newham, Hackney and Southend
Michelle Osborne - Senior Appropriate Body Advisor: Havering, Thurrock and Essex
Please do take a look at our website: https://londondistricteast.org/appropriate-body/ where there is a lot of useful information about our services.
ECTs can contact us!
It is also part of our role that ECTs can contact us directly, so please advise any ECTs who need us, that they can do that.
NPQs
Latest News
Autumn 2025 Cohorts
DfE is yet to confirmed scholarship funding for Autumn 2025 cohorts of NPQs. We will hear in June 2025, after the government spending review, whether any further NPQs will be funded. We are quietly confident! ��
We already have a waiting list for those who wish to apply for a scholarship funded NPQ to start in Autumn 2025.
To express your interest in Autumn 2025 NPQs, you can do so here: https://forms.office.com/e/KSxbstViSg
Congratulations!
Nilesh Hirani (Crownfield Infants), Emma Gent, Hattice Halil, Whitney Simon and Myles Mitchell (Tollgate Primary School) were all selected by he DfE to attend a Buckingham Palace Garden Party with HM King Charles III for their work participating in and promoting the reformed NPQS for the Department of Education.
Your pupils will develop and demonstrate good number sense
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You will develop teaching strategies to help all children build firm mathematical foundations
The Work Groups are fully funded by the Maths Hubs Programme, so are free to participating schools
Trial benefits
This programme focuses on the key knowledge and understanding needed in Reception, and progression through KS1 Lead Teachers in participating schools will receive training and will be part of an online community, to share practice and engage in critical reflection Teaching materials will be provided for four short sessions each week, aimed at developing children’s fluency and flexibility with number
Who can take part?
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Over half of the schools in England have participated in an EEF trial
Lead participants from Work Group schools will be three teachers – one each from Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 – known as Lead Teachers Some support will also be given to subject leaders and headteachers Where appropriate, Lead Teachers are expected to support the other teachers in their year group
Participating schools, working with their local Maths Hub, will be contributing to the evidence base for teaching approaches aiming to address children’s early mathematics development What is involved?
This programme and its Work Groups are open to all schools that have not yet engaged with the Mastering Number Programme
Find
out more
Search mastering number at reception and KS1 online or visit: ncetm.org.uk/mastering-number/reception-ks1
Some hubs in the network are offering this programme as part of an EEF trial in 2025/26 LNEMH has been chosen to be part of the trial For more information, see the School Information Sheet
SECONDARY MASTERY SPECIALIST
ELIGIBILITY: OPEN TO MATHS TEACHERS WITH QTS IN STATE-FUNDED SCHOOLS AND A MINIMUN OF TWO YEARS’ TEACHING EXPERIENCE.
COMMITMENT: 7.5 DAYS IN YEAR ONE AND 7.5 DAYS IN YEAR TWO TOTAL FUNDING £3000, HEADTEACHER ATTENDANCE AT AUTUMN LAUNCH REQUIRED
POST-16 GCSE/FSQ MASTERY SPECIALIST
ELIGIBILITY: FOR EXPERIENCED (2+ YEARS) POST-16 GCSE/FSQ MATHS TEACHERS REGULARLY TEACHING STUDENTS AGED 16–19.
COMMITMENT: 15 DAYS RELEASE TIME IN YEAR ONE AND 15 DAYS RELEASE TIME IN YEAR TWO TOTAL FUNDING £6000.
Email: projectlead@lneastmathshub org uk
Website: https://lneastmathshub.org.uk
X: @LNEMathsHub
Tel: 020 8472 1062 ext 1
Supporting reading in secondary school: Training for all secondary school staff
Description of the training
In spring 2025 the Department for Education are launching training developed by Professor Jessie Ricketts at Royal Holloway, University of London.
The short online training package is for all secondary school staff and will enable them to support reading in all secondary students It can be completed individually or in groups and takes a maximum of one hour to complete
The training was developed as part of the implementation of the 2023 Reading Framework, which emphasised the importance of supporting reading for all learners in secondary school.
There are two packages, one for secondary teachers and teaching assistants and one for school leaders (Box 1).
Each package comprises a set of videos with guidance and a workbook for reflecting and making notes Research-led videos were developed by Professor Ricketts and explain the underpinning theory and research on secondary reading. These videos build on 10 years of professional development with secondary school staff on reading.
Teacher-led videos were co-created with teachers and cover seven core strategies for supporting reading in the classroom and four considerations for developing a whole school reading culture The guidance provides examples to exemplify these strategies and considerations
The guidance provides information about the reading profiles that we are likely to see in secondary school and how to support students of all levels of reading ability.
Both packages provide opportunities to reflect at the beginning and end of the training, and to develop an action plan
Box 1 Summary of training packages for teachers and school leaders
Summary of findings from the pilot
The training was piloted in Spring 2024, demonstrating that the training was effective in promoting knowledge and confidence, and was feasible and accessible. It was also acceptable to school leaders and teachers who reported that it was needed, wanted, an efficient use of time and was already enabling them to reflect on how they might change their practice (Box 2). Pilot schools also provided feedback, which was used to finalise the training.
Box 2. Quotes from school leaders and teachers that indicate acceptability.
Quotes from school leaders:
‘As a literacy coordinator and reading lead the whole package can really boost a school in the right direction or taking 1 or a few core strategies to focus on, embedding, practicing and evaluating their effectiveness over time’
‘I think it would be really useful both as a refresher course for more experienced leads but also as really important training for colleagues who are new to leading literacy in schools.’
‘I think the idea of an accessible online one-shot training module on this subject is really needed.’
Quotes from teachers:
‘This is very interesting and useful training and has made me reflect on my own practice - I will make some amendments immediately to my lesson plans for tomorrow and am keen to see what impact this will have I am particularly keen on exploring a more joined-up approach of support for struggling readers across departments ’
‘This was great - as a non-English teacher, I feel that I have learnt so much Thank you’
‘Great resource Very practical and time efficient way of developing knowledge ’
Key messages from the training
• Reading can be defined in a range of ways and means different things to different people For example, it can be about knowledge and skills, enjoyment, engaging with new information or contexts, or building knowledge on a topic of interest.
• This CPD focuses on knowledge and skills, which is the first step to ensuring that students can benefit from opportunities to read to:
o Access the curriculum
o Read what they want to, when they want to
o Read when they need to (e g instruction manuals, health information)
• The training aligns with the Reading Framework in using the Simple View of Reading as a framework for defining the knowledge and skills that are necessary for successful reading namely, word reading and comprehension
• There are strategies that can be employed by any secondary teacher in any mainstream classroom to benefit all readers, including those with reading needs
• There are principles that all secondary schools can consider in order to develop a rich whole school reading culture
• Objective assessment is crucial for identifying reading needs, aligning those needs with both universal (wave 1) and targeted support, and evaluating the impact of support on pupils’ reading
• Secondary schools can expect to see a range of reading profiles amongst their students In addition to successful readers, they can expect to see students with mild reading needs, and students with more substantial needs relating to word reading, reading comprehension, and both word reading and reading comprehension.
• This training promotes knowledge and confidence amongst all secondary school staff so that they can support the needs of students with all reading profiles
WHO ARE NEW VISION ENGLISH HUB?
New Vision English Hub is based at Elmhurst Primary School in Newham
We are one of 34 English Hubs nationwide, funded by the Department for Education to support schools in achieving excellence in teaching reading and early language development.
We are passionate about reading and teaching all children to read fluently and for enjoyment.
We provide up to £6,000 of free funding and support to schools in North East London and Essex in the following regions:
Redbridge
Tower Hamlets
Newham
Islington
Barking and Dagenham
Uttlesford
Havering
Southend
Thurrock
Basildon
Braintree
Brentwood
Castle Point
Chelmsford
Epping Forest
Harlow
Maldon
Rochford
Contact us for more information or click here to complete a self referral form
Initial Teacher Training
Ambition Teacher Training
Delivered by: London District East Teaching School Hub
Accredited Providers: Ambition Institute (QTS)
PGCE Provider: Liverpool Hope University (PGCE)
Primary (5-11) PGCE with QTS (Full and Part time)
Secondary (12-16) PGCE with QTS (Full time)
Please click here to visit our website and APPLY
Teach Meet Webinars
We hold online Teach Meet sessions where we answer questions about our teacher training programme.
Summer Term 2025:
Tuesday 6th May 2025 5pm
Tuesday 20th May 2025 5pm
Tuesday 3rd June 2025 5pm
Tuesday 17th June 2025 5pm
Click on the link to register for train to teach event in Summer 2025.
In School Experience
If you would like to complete school experience at one of our partner schools: Tollgate Primary School (E13 8SA), please register via this link and we will arrange this for you.
Frequently raised issues about initial teacher training... The ITT landscape is confusing! We need help planning for trainees in our school but we don’t know where to start... How do we access teacher apprenticeships? What is PGTA or TDA? What are the various routes into teaching? Meet the team 1:1 online to unpick your school teacher training needs and we will give you all of the information you need to pick your perfect provider. Please contact: craig.lilleyman@londondistricteast.org
ITT Strategic Role
We need more trainee teacher placements across East London!
We are reaching out to schools to provide more placements in:
primary secondary shortage subjects across Barking & Dagenham, Havering and Newham. Please let us know if you have capacity to host more trainees with ANY provider and we will support you.
We are ‘A Brighter Start: East London’s Stronger Practice Hub’ led by Sheringham Nursery School and Children’s Centre. The hub is funded by the Department for Education. As an Early Years Stronger Practice Hub, we are here to provide advice, share good practice and offer evidence-based professional development for early years practitioners working with children from birth to 4 years old
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Showcases and webinars
Reading and resources on our website
Bespoke support and advice
Signposting to DfE/EEF programmes
Childminder stay and play
Networking opportunities
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Message from the closing London Computing Hub:
We just wanted to drop you a note to schools to thank you for your support over the last 4 years as our role as a local Computing Hub comes to an end We want to take a moment to thank you for being part of this incredible journey Over the years, we ’ ve had the privilege of supporting hundreds of teachers and school leaders in delivering high-quality computing education
While we may be saying goodbye, the National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) is here to stay - continuing to provide free, expert-led support to help schools/teachers grow as a computing educator They will still have access to:
✅ Online CPD to enhance their skills
✅ A vast library of free teaching resources, funded by the Department for Education
✅ I Belong programme to encourage more girls into computer science
✅ Isaac Computer Science to help students excel in their qualifications
✅ Computing Quality Framework to help them achieve excellence
