About Primary SCITT
The Suffolk and Norfolk PGCE Primary SCITT programme aims to bring together the very best of school centred and academic training. The training is provided by a partnership of just over 100 schools from Suffolk and Norfolk, together with University Campus Suffolk,(UCS), and Suffolk and Norfolk local authorities. You will be taking part, not only in an intellectually stimulating course but also in one that provides an in-depth experience of the classroom environment and its associated issues. This is a one-year, full time course in which 60% of the time is spent in schools and 40% in training centres. You will have the opportunity to observe good teachers at work and be able to work alongside them, gradually developing your own teaching skills. You will receive high quality mentoring, together with support from the SCITT team to enable you to develop into a competent and confident newly qualified teacher.
The partnership schools cover a wide range of primary practice from infant, junior, primary and middle schools. The schools vary in curriculum approaches, size and location, from large urban schools to small village schools. Classes may be discrete year groups or mixed year groups. Trainees are placed in schools with the aim of giving them a varied and balanced experience of educational contexts. By your final placement you will have developed your teaching skills to be able to assume much of the role of the class teacher. The Programme Leaders keep in close contact with all trainees by visiting schools. As well as this there is a Primary SCITT online learning community for sharing information and ideas.
Suffolk and Norfolk Primary Consultants, Advisers and ASTs, as well as the SCITT team undertake much of the training. This enables excellent continuity for the many trainees who subsequently take up their first teaching appointments in these counties. Now the programme has been running for over six years some ex-trainees are now taking on the role of mentoring new trainees.
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