Help us improve the lives of local children
Thank you for considering Inspiration Teacher Training to start your career in teaching. Teaching is a wonderful profession and one that is uniquely rewarding. We take an innovative and dynamic approach to becoming a teacher, matching real school experience at our placement schools with in depth subject knowledge training from our team of renowned subject and curriculum experts. As part of the Inspiration Trust one of the country's top performing academy groups - we offer a unique chance to develop in a diverse range of schools across Norfolk and north Suffolk. In this prospectus you will get a flavour of our approach and the courses we offer. We look forward to helping you get started in the classroom and making a difference to our young people.
Carmel Greene Director of Inspiration Teacher Training
Chris Moon - Geography Lead Nikki McGee - Religious Education Lead
We offer fee-paying courses where you pay for the year at the same level as university tuition fees. There are three types of funding available for teacher training. Depending on your circumstances, you could receive all three:
Find out more about which bursaries and scholarships you could receive by visiting
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your passion for your subject, and we want to help you share it with the next generation.
Make a real difference to the lives of local children Inspiration Teacher Training has been born out of the Inspiration Trust, a multi-academy trust that transforms schools in Norfolk. Our mission is to make a real difference to the lives of local children and we are proudly committed to improving the standards of education in the East of England. As a trainee teacher you will be changing lives by sharing your knowledge and passion with the next generation.
You'll spend on average one day a week in our Teaching School Hub in Norwich and four in your first placement school. You will be learning about your subject, how it is taught, how pupils learn your subject, how it is assessed and much more. You will also have training on behaviour management and teaching children with special educational needs and disabilities. In school, you will begin teaching straight away, teaching part of a lesson (with support) in your first week. Every week you will meet your mentor for one-to-one support. In the second half of term your teaching will increase, reaching around 8-10 hours per week by the end of term.
By the time you start your second placement, your teaching practice will have developed significantly. Although your teaching hours might ease at first to help you find your feet in your new school, you will quickly build these back up and take on more. You will continue to have days in the Teaching School Hub, but these will drop to once a fortnight, reflecting your increasing teaching load. Towards the end of term you'll spend a week in a different school, perhaps switching from secondary to primary (or vice versa), or visiting a special school or sixth form college. We’ll help you begin applying for jobs, with tips on applications, interview days, and observed lessons.
You will be in school full-time, teaching around 15-20 hours a week. Your mentor will tailor training targets to ensure that you are on track to qualify, and prepare you for working as an Early Career Teacher. At the end of term you will submit your teaching file and your mentor and course lead will recommend you for the award of Qualified Teacher Status.
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Learn how to manage a class and work with teaching assistants and support staff. Understand that some children face specific challenges: you will study these special educational needs in detail, and learn strategies that experienced teachers use to meet them. Experience school placements which will give you the opportunity to teach, to observe, to practise, to experiment, and to innovate. Reflect on your practice and, through ongoing discussions with your mentor, identify the ways you need to develop, building a highly personalised programme in which you develop your teaching style, practice, and ideas in a bespoke way.
£24,000
We welcome candidates who have a degree with substantial science content. This degree should either have some chemistry content or candidates should possess a chemistry A-level. We welcome candidates at all stages of their working life. The goal of our science curriculum is to enable pupils to become part of the international scientific community, and to teach them the required knowledge to leave school with an accurate understanding of science, helping them to make informed decisions in life.
This course is for people who love literature and know that the study of literature can be transformative. Candidates come from a wide variety of backgrounds, but what unites them is a shared understanding that the teaching of English is utterly essential, exciting, and valuable to secondary students. Literature enables our students to break out of the present and encounter the thoughts and struggles of different ages, and we as teachers are their guides into this fascinating work. Reflecting this, you will focus primarily on literature from the past which has had a significant ongoing influence. The course will aim to build your own areas of particular expertise.
Our vision for English departments is that they should be composed of teachers with a strong overall grasp of both the literary and the linguistic elements of the subject, alongside a deep understanding of particular topics. You will cover a thorough foundation in grammatical concepts, enabling you to bring them to life for your students as a rich framework of ideas that shape meaning.
£15,000
£24,000 This course is for physicists who are keen to empower young people in a society increasingly driven by science. We welcome candidates who have a degree with substantial science content. This degree should either have some physics content, or candidates should possess a physics A-level.
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Geography
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£15,000
As a geography teacher, you will be passionate about developing young people into global citizens with a rich knowledge of our ever-changing world. You will learn how to design and deliver a knowledge-rich Geography curriculum based on the most up-to-date, evidenceinformed practice. You will learn the conceptual basis of the subject and how to build students’ knowledge of locations, places, human and physical processes and fieldwork. Throughout the course, you will understand how to embed key concepts like humanenvironment interactions, varying
viewpoints and sustainability within your teaching. We believe in developing teachers who give students the highest quality geographical education, teaching powerful geographical knowledge which will allow them to take full part in salient contemporary debates and live lives with a greater understanding of the world.
Biology with Science £10,000 This course is for biologists who are keen to empower young people in a society increasingly driven by science. We welcome candidates who have a degree with substantial science content. This degree should either have some biology content, or candidates should possess a biology A-level. The ability to think scientifically is necessary for pupils to fluently interpret the world and solve problems. Above all else, in-depth knowledge of biology equips pupils with the ability to appreciate the wonderful natural world around them, understand how humans interact with it and recognise our responsibility to care for it. With a clear focus on cognitive psychology and knowledge-rich curricula, you will develop a highly effective teaching style. We want you centre stage, enthusing about biology, carefully selecting the key knowledge and using a variety
of teaching and assessment techniques to transform the understanding of the pupils. We want to help you ensure that pupils not only understand biology but remember it for all time. You will learn to lead exciting class practicals and demonstrations with precision, and be trained in a purpose-built lab before taking your skills to schools. You will complete the course ready to join the wider teaching and scientific community as an able practitioner, researchlead and confident in your work.
Religious Education As a teacher of religious education, you will be passionate about developing religiously literate young people; this means enabling them to have intelligent and informed conversations about the changing religious landscape across the globe. You will learn how to design and deliver a knowledge-rich RE curriculum based on the most upto-date, evidence-informed practice. You will benefit from working with our groundbreaking curriculum, which embraces worldviews and multidisciplinary approach. You will learn how to enable students to build a deep understanding of religious and non-religious worldviews using the disciplines of history, theology, philosophy and the social sciences. You will build a broad knowledge base that will include Greek and modern philosophy, the Dharmic
and Abrahamic traditions and key scholars from the social sciences. In addition, you will learn how to guide your students towards understanding that religion is hugely diverse. Therefore, it is important to both teach classical ideas and challenge those ideas from a diverse range of voices. Those diverse voices include Black and Womanist Theologies and Ambedkar's Buddhist Dalit movement. Finally, you will guide your students to a growing realisation that religious worldviews often do not fit the boxes created by European scholars in the 19th century.
Our Teaching School Hub is in Norwich,
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To apply, you will need to submit an application via the GOV.uk service, Apply for teacher training. Our provider code is ‘2H7' (fee-paying). You will find additional guidance on what to include in your application and how to write your personal statement on the Get Into Teaching website. If your application is shortlisted you will be invited to a selection day. The selection day will be based at the Inspiration Teaching School Hub, Norwich. You will complete a number of tasks during the day. The day will give you an insight into what it will be like to work in schools, along with the opportunity to ask questions and meet members of our team.
* We consider degree criteria on an individual basis.