The DFE have announced the new funding approach for National Professional Qualifications from Autumn 2024.

The following NPQ programmes will be fully-funded for all state funded schools and eligible nursery settings:

• NPQH and the Early Headship Coaching Offer
• NPQ for Leading Primary Maths
• NEW NPQ for SEND
   

All other NPQs will be funded for schools considered to be serving disadvantaged communities. The criteria for assessing this will be:

• Schools in the top 50% of schools with the highest proportion of pupils who attract pupil premium funding;
• 16 to 19 settings identified as having high disadvantage; or
• highly disadvantaged early years settings. 

Education Endowment Fund Recruiting for programmes and trials

The EEF have announced the range of programmes and trials which they are now recruiting for. These programmes support national and regional priorities and they offer schools opportunities to be among the first to trial promising approaches including receiving programmes at a subsidised cost or free, or if in the control group, get paid to take part. Ultimately you and your school can contribute to the evidence base on what works in education.  Click here to take part in an EEF project

Ambition’s Steplab and ECT teams will be running a series of training sessions to help you utilise Steplab even better with training sessions relevant to your role.  Each session will be 30-45 minutes and there will be several opportunities to join over a three-week period.   Please click to download dates, times, and Zoom links for the training sessions here and click to join the training!

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An exciting fully funded programme is available for primary schools in Walsall.

The project will support schools in raising KS2 pupil outcomes in reading and writing and has 20 FREE places on the programme. There is both intensive face to face development for your English Leader and virtual twilight sessions for other staff that you might select to enable the development to be implemented widely across your school.

Click here for more information and to express interest contact acliff@manormat.com before Jan 8th 2024.

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Local English Hubs are running numerous DfE Reading Framework webinars throughout Nov and Dec 2023 – click here to make a booking

The Department for Education portal for registering ECTs and mentors for January and April starters is open

Click here for the latest guidance video to help your through this process.

This page gives you an overview of the whole process. How to set up training for early career teachers - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are a school completely new to ECTs or just new to Manor as your delivery partner then let us know that you want to be with us as a provider of ECF CPD (through Ambition Institute) and/or Statutory Induction (AB) Services. You can use this link or email info@manorteachingschoolhub.com to talk to Liz Marson.

Manor TSH has a number of information sessions planned – all of which you can book on by clicking here

Info session for Induction Tutors on key AB and ECF actions for the forthcoming months - 8th December 2023 - 8.30am to 9.30am

Info session on NPQs for January 24 recruitment – 9th January - 9.30am to 10.30 am

Spotlight on ITT session for School Leaders who want to support the recruitment and training of new teachers in our area - Thursday 14th December

Registration for NPQs - Registration is now open for February 2024 cohorts of all NPQs – click here to express your interest in a programme.

Initial Teacher Education in our area.

TSHs have a new role in deepening engagement with ITT in our local area, connecting schools and ITT providers and developing news ways to highlight initial teacher training opportunities and increase the flow of excellent teachers into our schools.

Want to get your school more involved in ITT?  Join one of our Spotlight on ITT sessions for a short briefing and to ask questions on either Thursday 16th November    (08:00 – 08:45)    or Thursday 16th November (16:00 – 16:45). Click here to register for one of these virtual sessions.

We have also launched a Survey to ask Headteachers about engagement with ITT so that we can work out how we can further support local schools – click here to respond to the survey.

Good News for Small Schools - Is your school less than 600 pupils? Then you can get ADDITIONAL Support Funding to retain and train your staff.  In addition to the full scholarship funding for all state-maintained schools and academies, the DfE are providing additional payments to small schools to help support your leaders to undertake NPQs.

We know that smaller schools often don’t have the resources to promote top talent, but we know that staff value your commitment to their progression and training and that this can help retention. So take the opportunity to access an additional grant payment of £200 (or £800) for each employed teacher or leader who participates in an NPQ*. This is funding that you can use in any way to make engagement more possible, e.g. cover costs.

*The latest funding can be found on the DFE site and offers £800 to schools smaller than 150 pupils, £200 to all primary schools and £200 to secondary schools less than 600 pupils. 

Teacher Training - Huge congratulations to the Teacher Training institutions in the West Midlands who have been reaccredited to continue building teacher training provision locally – Click here for the full National List. This includes Strategic Partners of the TSH and you can find out more about their provision here.

National Professional Qualifications - The next cohorts of NPQs are recruiting fast and the application deadline for February 2023 is January 12th.  All programme are fully funded - All teachers and leaders employed in state funded schools in England can access these National Professional Qualifications at no cost.

Leading Teaching
Leading Literacy
Leading Behaviour and Culture
Leading Teacher Development
Senior Leadership
Early Years Leadership.

Provisional schedules and Information on each course can be found here. And to express your interest click here.