Teacher Training

We are a Lead School for Teacher Training with 18 years experience of school based training, and as from next year will be working closely with our colleagues at Colchester Teacher Training Consortium.

We train around 15 teachers each year here and in our partner schools which are mainly in NE and Mid Essex, although as a growing multi-academy trust we have schools in Tendring, Colchester, Witham, Chelmsford and Braintree.

Schools are carefully selected so that trainees get the support they need during the training year. Each trainee will be placed with an experienced teacher, who is quite often their mentor too, and will also have the services of a Lead Mentor from St Thomas More’s. The schools we work with have lots of experience with ITT and many of the staff will have taken similar school based routes into teaching.

St Thomas More’s has been a Teaching School until the recent introduction of the Teaching School Hubs and currently leads and manages Venn Essex Maths Hub, and as such will offer additional training opportunities and networking.  We continue to work closely with the Teaching School Hub network.

For further information, please visit the Colchester Teacher Training Consortium and Get Into Teaching websites.  Applications for teacher training can be made on the GOV.UK website.