1. Sussex IT Partnership Forum for Professional Tutors

2. Wednesday 11 th November 2014 4.15pm – 6.15pm JUBILEE 155, University of Sussex 4.10 Registration and refreshments 4.30 Welcome and Updates (Jo Tregenza and Sally Dudley) 5.00 Break Out Groups: Option 1: SD – Secondary School Direct Leads and Professional Tutors – Sharing Good Practice in Recruiting and Selecting Trainees - come with ideas, examples or/and questions! Option 2: Primary Professional Tutors - sharing of good practice Option 3: How to improve Quality of mentor’s feedback: written and oral Option 4 How to improve trainees’ confidence in Assessing pupils and Working with parents 5.50 Feedback from each group (3 headlines – 2 minutes each!) 6.00 Evaluations and expense forms

3. Updates: A quick review of last year: We started the year with …. Sir John Jones coming back on 27 th May And finished the year with ….Partnership Conference with Greg Burke in the Creativity Zone

4. How did we do last year? Recruitment target PGCE 223 SD Training 146 SD Salaried 45 TOTAL 414 % grade 1 PGCE 54% SD Training 60% SD Salaried 43% TOTAL 56% Recruited PGCE 135 SD Training 81 SD Salaried 26 TOTAL 242 % grade 2 PGCE 40% SD Training 36% SD Salaried 48% TOTAL 39% % Graduated with QTS PGCE 94% SD Training 90% SD Salaried 88% TOTAL 92% % grade 3 PGCE 6% SD Training 4% SD Salaried 0% TOTAL 5% % TWD PGCE 4% SD Training 6% SD Salaried 4% TOTAL 5% % distinction PGCE 35% SD Training 34% SD Salaried 53% TOTAL 36% % PWD PGCE 1% SD Training 4% SD Salaried 12% TOTAL 3.3% % merit PGCE 39% SD Training 37% SD Salaried 20% TOTAL 37% % employed PGCE 96% SD Training 86% SD Salaried 100% TOTAL 93% % passPGCE 24% SD Training 27% SD Salaried 27% TOTAL 26 % English and computer science cohorts of 1 that each took PWD

5. What has happened so far this year: Everybody turned up all 314 of them! NQT support conference – 60 attendees Early Years conference: Retention: 2 PWD Primary with maths PGCE + oversees 4 TWD SD music, SD English, SD Maths and Primary PGCE(health reasons)

6. Recruitment Figures for this year Subject and route Recruited Subject and route Recruited Subject and route Recruite d Art and Design SD 3 History PGCE 4 PE SD 2 Classics PGCE 11 History SD 12 Primary PGCE 22 7-14 Computer Science PGCE 4 History Sal 4 Primary SD 30 Computer Science SD 2 Maths 7-14 PGCE 7 Primary Sal 4 Computer Science Sal 2 Maths PGCE 26 Primary Early Years PGCE 16 Design and Tech SD 1 Maths SD 8 Primary with Maths PGCE 10 Design and Tech Sal 1 Maths Sal 4 Psychology PGCE 7 Drama PGCE 18 Media Studies PGCE 1 RE SD 1 Drama SD 4 Media Studies SD 1 RE Sal 2 Drama Sal 1 MFL PGCE 17 Science – Biology PGCE 9 English PGCE 5 MFL SD 3 Science – Biology SD 1 English SD 10 MFL Sal 1 Science – Chemistry PGCE 12 English Sal 4 Music PGCE 12 Science – Chemistry SD 1 Geography PGCE 6 Music SD 1 Science - Physics PGCE 17 Geography SD 4 Music Sal 1 Science - Physics SD 1 Geography Sal 1 This years totals: 314

7. Thinking forwards: Guest speaker to open next year: any ideas? OFSTED Supporting the Mentors Communication Recruitment and a shifting landscape

8. OFSTED New two stage inspection: Summer term University: Autumn term: Schools (with our NQTs) Main focus of NQT visit is impact on pupil progress Some things we need to think about: we are clear about how the enhancing placement gives an alternative experience OFSTED feedback from last year: Quality of mentor written feedback, tracking of trainees and action planning Everyone always needs to think about EAL and diversity We could be any time but probably not until next year

9. Supporting the Mentors Catch up meeting Take a look at the progress trackers https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_6yw66NTPH2R5F9xZr8UTV ChF9GAnJIi6r3hTamIGx8/edit

10. Communication Regular newsletter

11. Recruitment nationally – some changes School Direct Partnerships, School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITTs) and universities (HEIs)registered with NCTL in July for approval to recruit to as many courses as they wish and to give indicative numbers NCTL have worked out the target numbers of trainees needed in each subject and phase, allocated protected target numbers for SD and SCITT places and HEIs can recruit the remainder for Core PGCE. Once UCAS open all School Direct, SCITT and Core PGCE providers recruit as many trainees as they wish …….UNTIL….. NCTL apply ‘controls’ when 1. universities go over their quota nationally and 2. For SD and SCITTS when/if the national target in that subject is reached Some individual HEIs and SCITTs will be ‘capped’ earlier if NCTL perceives from the data that they are ‘taking over the market’ in their area

12. Why? and what does this mean for our partnership? To remove barriers to providers being able to recruit more trainees than their original allocation NCTL are using this approach to channel a larger proportion of candidates through SD and SCITT route Some subjects didn’t meet their recruitment reserve nationally (e.g. Computer Studies, Maths, Science, MFL) so unlikely to be capped Others e.g. Primary, History, PE, are likely to be controlled – especially for HEIs but also for SD so……… More of a race than ever before against other providers to get good candidates quickly

13. Sussex process very similar to last year PRIMARY screened by primary team and interviews for SD organised by tutors to take place in SD and PGCE schools SECONDARY SCIENCE, MFL, SCIENCE AND ALL SALARIEDS invited to interview at University first SECONDARY ALL OTHER SUBJECTS Sussex Tutor team screen all applications - feedback and recommendations sent to Lead School schools then interview using university schedule (unchanged from last year) and make offers For all secondary SD places schools generate offer letter from our template and return Admissions Record to iteadmissions.

14. Secondary Interview days Wed 18th Nov Friday 4th Dec These are the ‘set days’ Wed 16th Dec tutors will also organise their own Wed 13th Jan where they need to be more responsive Fri 29th Jan to applications arriving Wed 10th Feb Fri 4th March Wed 16th March Wed 13th April Fri 29th April Wed 11th May

15. New for 2016-2017 Website page for schools with all recruitment, selection and admissions documentation and information Website page for candidates once they have accepted their offer with all admissions information and documentation

16. Upcoming Recruitment events – please advertise on your websites! TUE 17/11/15NCTL Hove Park School 4.30-7.30pm Thur 26/11/15SESTA TSA at Reigate School SAT 28/11/15NCTL Belfast 10-3pm WED 9/12/15NCTL Ashford 4.30-7.30pm WED 27/01/16NCTL Hastings 4.30-7.30pm SAT 6/02/16NCTL London Westminster 9.30-4pm THUR 3/3-16NCTL Crawley 5-8pm

17. Thank you for all your hard work on recruitment!