Who are HTTP?

The Havering Teacher Training Partnership

The Havering Teacher Training Partnership comprises a group of schools working together to provide training for secondary teaching. Currently Abbs Cross, The Albany, Brittons, The Chafford, Coopers Coborn, Emerson Park, Gaynes, Hall Mead, Drapers’ Academy, Marshalls Park, Royal Liberty, Redden Court, Sacred Heart and Sanders Draper Schools form the partnership.

A large percentage of our places are for the shortage subjects Maths, Science, Modern Foreign Languages, Music, ICT, Design and Technology) but we can provide for the full range of secondary subjects (except Citizenship, Psychology, Sociology and Media).

Training teachers are employed in a lead school where most of their training will take place but there will be experience in a second school for six weeks during Term Two. The course lasts for one academic year.

Much of the experience will be practical and trainees gradually take responsibility for teaching classes as their experience develops.
The programme will provide trainees with the opportunity to develop their knowledge and acquire the skills necessary for teaching their subject at Key Stage 3 & 4. By the end of term one the minimum teaching requirement is 30% of a normal timetable, increasing in term two to 50% and finally trainees are expected to teach 75% of a full timetable in term three.

There is a continuous programme of training activities designed to prepare training teachers for the profession and for verification to achieve Qualified Teacher Status. Graduate Trainees are released for generic cohort training on Tuesday afternoons and meet centrally at one of the partner schools. In addition Subject Leaders will deliver subject specific “twilight” sessions.

The Graduate Teacher Programme is an apprenticeship model and trainees are expected to take responsibility for their own learning. However, considerable support will be on offer both from the partner school and HTTP Management Group.

There has been a huge interest in this route into teaching and it is essential that potential candidates have current experience of secondary school life. For example

• Gain a placement in a Secondary School working in your subject department

• Gain employment as a Teaching Assistant

• Observe lessons

• Work with young people in other contexts

• Coach Sports Teams

Experience of primary or sixth form education is also beneficial.

For assistance go to – www.tda.gov.uk - School Experience Programme (SEP)

Trainees are employed on the unqualified teacher scale and at current rates this means an annual salary of approximately £18,789 including outer London Allowance.

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