ITAP (Intensive Training and Practice) Week
Our teacher training course focuses strongly on subject specificity, with distinctive weekly subject pathway sessions and an extra four weeks set aside for intensive training and practice. These additional sessions…
Trainees get stuck into subject pathway
Subject pathway is an element of the GITEP course we are particularly proud of as it allows our trainees to really engage with subject teaching whilst being embedded in their…
Applications for Teacher Training Now OPEN!
If you are interested in a career in teaching, applications for teacher training in the 2024-2025 academic year are now open. Visit the Get Into Teaching website and see our webpage on…
GITEP ITAP Weeks
Schools from across Gloucestershire hosted the first GITEP ITAP Weeks – Intensive Training and Practice weeks supported by lectures and workshops provided by local experts. This was the first of…
GITEP rated by Ofsted as ‘Outstanding’ again!
Ofsted carried out their inspection of GITEP SCITT back in May. Until now we’ve had to keep their findings to ourselves but now their report has been published. We are…
Practical makes perfect
Our trainee science Teachers enjoyed a great pathway session exploring practical work. This session was aimed at developing domain and procedural knowledge to build understanding and skill from observation and…
A taster of Cheltenham Bournside School
We were pleased to be part of a Teacher Taster Day at Cheltenham Bournside School & Sixth Form Centre on Friday 18th November 2022 and have the opportunity to meet some excellent…
History in the making
Our schools need history teachers who will inspire in their pupils a curiosity and joy of learning about the past and show them how learning about our history can help…
Science subject pathway
Trainee teachers of Biology, Chemistry and Physics all follow the Science Subject Pathway, guided by Subject Lead Emmaline Fletcher-Sykes. As the majority of secondary school science teachers will need to teach elements of all three…
Design Technology Trainees
Design Technology teachers have to cover a number of different skills/topics in their classes so while we ask our trainees to be masters of one particular area, they still need…
MFL Trainees on their subject pathway
The trainees about to set off on a £5 challenge to find something to use in a lesson Our MFL Trainees are now six weeks into their training and are enjoying the…
Helping students to become teachers
Each year Cirencester Deer Park School and Cirencester Kingshill School join together to create an exciting careers event that aims to increase their pupils’ understanding of the world of work…
Big thanks to Henley Bank High
Henley Bank High School in Gloucester hosted GITEP’s trainees for two brilliant days of sessions, delivered by staff from some of our fantastic partnership schools, including Henley Bank High School,…
Great to get together again!
Earlier this month, we got together with all of the Training Managers from our partnership schools and our Subject Leaders for a network meeting. A big thanks to Cleeve School for providing…
Congratulations to our partner schools in Sunday Times Parent Power Schools Guide
We are very fortunate that GITEP SCITT is able to work with so many wonderful schools. The latest Sunday Times Parent Power Schools Guide highlights the excellent performance of a…
Professional Studies September 2021
Wishing all of our GITEP SCITT trainees every success as they begin their first school placements. We had a fantastic three weeks of Professional Studies with them. They were introduced…
Subject Pathway September 2021
GITEP SCITT trainees have had a brilliant first 3 weeks of Subject Pathway sessions getting to know each other, establishing key subject content and concepts, and learning new skills. We…
Balcarras wins The Sunday Times South West State Secondary School of the Decade Award
We are proud of all of our partnership schools which, combined, offer what Ofsted described as ‘the richest possible mix of different settings’ and we are fortunate to work with…
Back in schools in bubbles
It has been brilliant to welcome our 2020/21 trainees and we have thoroughly enjoyed being able to teach our professional studies sessions face-to-face. We are extremely grateful to partnership schools…
Zoom-ing through interviews and inductions!
While lockdown has been a quiet time for many, it has turned out to be an incredibly busy time for GITEP. It appears to have given many people the time…