Initial Teacher Training
Essa Academy offers a range of Initial Teacher Training opportunities working in partnership with The Alliance for Learning, Teach First, Rivington School Direct, Turton School Direct, Manchester Metropolitan University, The University of Manchester, and Liverpool John Moores University. Essa Academy has an excellent record of securing employment into teaching at either the Academy itself, other partnership schools and schools outside the partnership.
Teach First
‘We find, train and support people to become brilliant teachers, inspiring the young people who need them the most’. Click the logo (below) for more information.
Rivington School Direct
School Direct is an initiative that allows trainees to train across an excellent alliance of schools, and trainees will have a greater opportunity to develop much closer links with those schools during and after their training. It also gives them a high probability of success in achieving their first teaching post.
Rivington School Direct is a partnership of twelve secondary schools in Bolton and one North West University supported by primary and secondary special schools and the Bolton Pupil Referral Service to deliver Initial Teacher Training.
Essa Academy, Ladybridge High School, Mount St Joseph Buisness and Enterprise College, Rivington and Blackrod High School, St Joseph's RC High School, Sharples School, Thornleigh Salesain College, Turton School, Bolton St Catherine's Academy, Harper Green School, Rumworth School and Westhoughton High School are the twelve Secondary schools in the partnership with the Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) our partner University. Firwood High School, our Secondary and Ladywood Special School, our Primary school are our supporting special schools.
Trainees will have the opportunity to experience a wide variety of alternative school settings, follow a unique Foundation Leadership course and gain a PGCE with Masters Accreditation through the Manchester Metropolitan University (which has been graded as Outstanding for all areas of initial Teacher Training).
So if you are interested in this exciting new development in initial teacher training, please contact Diane Green at schooldirect@rbhs.co.uk for more details. Please email for 2019-2020 updates or go to the link www.education.gov.uk/get-into-teaching where you will be given details on how to apply.
