Winter 2025 Newsletter
Updated ECF Programme - ECTP 2025 - up and running.
Spring ECT Events: Booking open for ECT Clinics 2 and 5
Appropriate Body: January 2025 Registrations open for new ECTs.
Ambition NPQs: All Ambition programmes now underway!
Best Practice NPQs: All Best Practice programme events starting in January 2026.
Ambition Teacher Training: Now recruiting for September 2026
London North East Maths Hub: Signposting and updates.
New Wave English Hub: Signposting and updates.
East London Research School: Contacts and updates.
East London Brighter Start Stronger Practice Hub: How to get in touch.
RISE London: Update and Open Schools Fortnight
Early Career Teacher Programme
MENTOR CURRICULUM MAP
TERM 1
Mentor conference 1
This session covers essentials for mentors' and ECTs' success. It includes:
An overview of the ITTECF and Ambition Institute’s high-quality training
Research and best practices shaping the ECT programme, including the science of learning and instructional coaching benefits.
A detailed look at the instructional coaching model, its importance for mentoring, and its use in performance and task-based modelling Mentors will practise each stage and receive feedback.
TERM 2
Mentor conference 2
Building on mentor conference 1, this session helps mentors enhance their instructional coaching by adapting to ECTs’ growing expertise. It covers: Research on flexible knowledge and adaptive expertise.
Strategies for adapting the coaching model to support ECTs. Mentors will practise these strategies and receive feedback
TERM 3
Mentor Clinic
Building on mentor conference 2, this session helps mentors understand adaptive expertise and introduces a new strategy they can use. Mentors will practise and receive feedback on this strategy. There are three clinic options, each focusing on a different strategy Facilitators will choose the most appropriate strategy for the session.
Optional and additional support
Mentoring and coaching development area
An optional online self-study course for mentors focuses on instructional coaching and their interests Modules enhance knowledge, offer targeted practice, and cover the mentor's role in ITTECF.
Coaching for mentors
Delivery partners can offer additional support sessions for mentors to receive tailored practice and feedback on instructional coaching. Sessions focus on areas of need in mentoring practice, prioritising effective modelling and practice.
Appropriate Body Training: January Registrations now open!
ECT Manager: Click here to register new ECTs
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
Website and Handbook
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.
The DfE has confirmed that there will only be one cohort of NPQs from now on.
We believe there will be scholarship funding for Autumn 2026.
There will NOT be an April 2026 cohort of NPQs.
Ambition Institute NPQs
We are proud to announce that we have at least one cohort of every Ambition NPQ up and running.
We had over 300 participants starting Ambition NPQs this term. We even have small cohorts of NPQ Leading Primary Maths and Leading Literacy - which other Hubs struggle to fill. THANK YOU to all schools who have allowed their teachers and leaders to access this evidence-based professional development. We know that these programmes are having an impact in schools and on pupils from all the feedback we get from stakeholders.
Best Practice NPQs
We have our first three Best Practice Network NPQs cohorts starting in January.
We have cohorts of NPQH, NPQSL and NPQSEND running. Thank you to everyone who has shown interest in these programmes. We know lots of schools access BPN training locally, so it’s really good to have some groups running through the LDE. .
If you have any questions please email: martin.redfern@londondistricteast.org
Initial Teacher Training
Use this Zoom link to register for the MonthlyTeach Meet: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/AKLSiEg6TVKc1gFOVD8D9w
London District East Teacher Training Contact: rosetta.robinson@londondistricteast.org
Director of Teacher Training
London District East Teaching School Hub
About the Programme
The programme aims to improve maths attainment of children in an early years setting by training a Maths Champion and Deputy Maths Champion (MC and DMC) in key mathematical concepts and increasing staff confidence.
After completing a live induction and online training modules the MC will lead on completing a staff confidence and nursery environment audit and action plan to improve the mathematical learning environment and confidence of all staff
They will also lead on implementing 10 or more core activities with children that build on the key areas of maths learning. MCs will then be able to revisit their audits and review the outcomes of the core activities
Throughout the 12 months the MC and DMC will have access to ongoing one-to-one support from an Early Years Expert as well as regular webinars on arising topics.
Click here to find out more information!
Meet the LDE Team!
Put a name to the face - meet the LDE TSH Team!
https://londondistricteast.org/about-us/our-team/
LDE Teaching School Hub is designated to Tollgate Primary School.
The LDE offices are at: Tollgate Primary School Barclay Road Plaistow London E13 8SA.
https://tollgate.boleyntrust.org/
If you would like to come and visit us - please let us know.
https://londondistricteast.org/
We are part of The Boleyn Trust family of schools.
https://boleyntrust.org/