Damian Chubb Head

of Teaching School East SILC John Jamieson School

Recruitment workshop

 Our model – in overview 

• All Alliance schools offer placements

•  Headteachers of individual schools request places for their school

•  Alliance staff deliver Professional Studies Programme

•  Placements include Alternative setting, Out of phase and Special

• All delivered in Leeds

•  Special, Mainstream, Primary and Secondary form a single cohort

•  Programme devised in partnership with HEI – Bradford College

South SILC North West SILC West SILC Temple Moor High School David Young Community Academy Kippax Ash Tree Primary School Roundhay St John’s Primary School Whitkirk Primary School Medical Needs Teaching Service Leeds City College East SILC

Chellow Heights Special School Ampleforth College Brigshaw High School and Language College Harehills Primary School Kippax North Junior, Infant and Nursery School Lady Elizabeth Hastings CofE Primary School, Ledston TLC (North) St Bartholomew’s CofE Primary School, Armley Cockburn School

Middleton Primary School Corpus Christi Primary School Meanwood CofE Primary School Allerton Grange High School Alwoodley Primary School Manston St James Primary Academy The Cooperative Academy of Leeds Kippax Greenfield Primary School St Theresa’s Primary School Bardsey Primary School Royds Hall High School High Park School, Bradford

Royds School St John’s School for the Deaf Burley Park Centre Farsley Springbank Junior School Allerton High School Westroyd Infant School & Nursery Lighthouse School St Chad’s CofE Primary School Allerton Bywater Primary School Methley Primary School Swillington Primary School Oakbank School New Bewerley Community School Haworth Primary School Oakworth Primary School Nessfield Primary School

91 places allocated

 Marketing – attracting interest

• Web site

• Last year

•  HEI support – strategy, expertise, resources

•  Events – personal contact, student link, data capture

• ‘Guides’ and publications

•  Personal contact – from the start, follow up, student link

•  Grow your own – known, newsletters, word of mouth

•  SEP

•  Budget

 Applicants to (outstanding) trainees

• Recruitment & Selection process

• SKE

• ‘Home’ school hand holding

• Recycling and feedback

• Personal contact – from the start, follow up, student link

• Mentors

 Future developments

• SCITT

• Enhancements to the programme – Attachment awareness

• Marketing strategy evaluation – focus on no thank you…

• SEN ITT Pilot

•  Aspiring Teachers Programme

• Targeting universities

What we have learned…

“When you are up to your neck in alligators it is very easy to forget that the original objective was to drain the swamp.”

“Your proposal is innovative. Unfortunately we won’t be able to use it because we’ve never tried something like this before.”