The Portsmouth Teaching School Alliance is ready to go with a packed programme of free and low-cost CPD and Networks running throughout the year. To book your place, please see the links below for our September courses or visit www.portsmouthtsa.org

17th September                                       NPQSL
18th September                                       NQT Induction and Welcome meeting
18th September                                       Portsmouth English Network (Primary)
18th September                                       Portsmouth English Network (Secondary)
18th September                                       Recently Qualified Teachers (1-3 years after qualifying)
19th September                                       TA Skills Training
23rd September                                      More Able Network
24th September                                      Train to Teach Event
25th September                                      NQT Professional Mentors Briefing Session
25th September                                      NPQML

At the beginning of September we will be launching the first of our campaigns to encourage people to consider teaching in Portsmouth. The campaign will include the invitation to prospective teachers to register to gain school experience in a Portsmouth school.
We are therefore looking for host schools to take prospective teachers over the course of the 2019/20 school year, probably over 2-3 days, and allow them to:
– Sit in on a variety of lessons, working with pupils under the guidance of the teacher;
– Receive advice from the Head or CPD lead on routes into teaching;
– Talk to a newly or recently qualified teacher in the school about their experience.
We hope to be able to secure some funding from the Portsmouth Education Elementary Fund to contribute to the administrative costs to schools of providing quality school experiences which could be up to £1500 for a school (or group of schools) able to take up to 10 prospective teachers over the course of the year. www.teachportsmouth.co.uk
To express an initial interest in taking part please contact [email protected] by Tuesday 25 June.

Teach Portsmouth website and social media – the new Teach Portsmouth website and associated Facebook and Twitter social media platforms are live. Please look at the website and promote it through your networks, websites and social media. Like and follow our page on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, retweet us, use the hashtag #TeachPortsmouth. This collaborative approach will help us get started as we move towards the first Teach Portsmouth recruitment campaign. If you want us to share relevant good news stories or what you are doing which would encourage teachers/potential teachers or job vacancies, please email [email protected] or contact us through our social media. We are keen to keen the website and social media current, lively and dynamic!  www.teachportsmouth.co.uk

Teachers are invited to attend the Portsmouth Cultural Expo on Monday 18 March, 4-6pm at the D-Day Story Museum. It’s an opportunity for teachers to meet and have conversations with cultural and literacy organisations from across the city and learn how they can support and enhance teaching in heritage and culture. The expo will also serve as a launch for the popular Summer Reading Challenge – come along to hear how the Library Service are planning to increase participation amongst children on pupil premium or forces premium.

Exhibitors include Aspex Gallery, the New Theatre Royal, National Heritage, the Mary Rose Trust, Top Banana Circus, Groundlings, Funk Format and the Portsmouth Music Service, with more signing up each day.

Free refreshments, courtesy of the museum café, will be available to enjoy and at 6pm attendees will be welcome to join an optional tour of the newly refurbished D-Day Story Museum and see why it was nominated for this year’s prestigious European Museum of the Year award.

Register for a free place at: https://portsmouthculturalexpo2019.eventbrite.com

With the support of Stagecoach, Shaping Portsmouth, Portsmouth University, the Southern Universities Network and other partners we will be celebrating National Apprenticeship Week by taking the Apprenticeship Bus to visit local secondary schools on the 5th and 7th of March.
Full info: National Apprenticeship Week 2019