Your training programme will be hard work, but very satisfying. You will spend a year in school training, 5 days a week. You will experience what life in a local school is like, just like a qualified teacher, unlike some university based ITT where you a parachuted into schools for periods of placement. One day a week will be set aside for an on-line Professional Studies programme provided by TES Institute. On the secondary programme on Wednesday afternoon’s we have Face 2 Face workshops where all of the trainees, from all our schools, come together to develop their knowledge and skills. (It’s also a great chance to meet with other trainees to share experiences, ideas, highs and lows.) Much of this training will happen this year at ZincArts Theatre in Ongar (https://zincarts.org.uk/). The primary hubs have a slightly different, more bespoke programme. You will gradually build-up the amount of time that you spend leading from the front of the classroom. There are guidelines for this, but they are adapted to suit each trainee. There will be lots of opportunities for you to observe experienced teachers in your own subject / phase and in others so that you can build up your toolkit of strategies and skills. You will each have an in-school mentor who will meet with you every week and a TES Pathway tutor who will monitor your on-line work and meet with you for half a day each term, in school to guide and chart your progress.