SCITT Booklet

7 SCITT AT ST EDWARD’S

Dear Applicant , Thank you for considering St Edward’s as the place to start your career in teaching. Back in 2005, I was lucky enough to train as one of the first participants on the Teach First programme. When I joined, the scheme was less than two years’ old and no trainees had yet completed the two-year programme. Training ‘on the job’ suited me perfectly. Every day had its fair share of triumphs and disasters, but the thing I remember the most was the camaraderie of the teachers’ Common Room and the brilliant mentoring that I received. Fast forward more than 15 years and I am delighted that St Edward’s is offering a similar opportunity to you. I have worked with

SCITT trainees at close quarters in South London for the last five years, marvelling at the energy and fresh approaches that they have bought to the classrooms. The scheme is a fantastic example of partnership at its best: between the government visionaries and grassroots teachers, between the state and independent sectors and between different St Edward’s is a remarkable place to learn your craft. I hope that, as you read on, you will be inspired to come to learn here too. DAVID FLOWER, SUB WARDEN (DEPUTY HEAD) ACADEMIC parts of the country, even the world. Teaching is very much a vocation and

Our vision is for a fully co-educational school, taking full advantage of its location in Oxford, to which access

is broad and balanced, in which staff and pupils together make up a diverse and mutually supportive community of learners, in which pupils develop self-agency through opportunity, in which there is a culture of service, from which pupils graduate with values for life and skills for the 21st century, and in which the estate and all operational structures facilitate sustainable excellence. ALASTAIR CHIRNSIDE, WARDEN