Saffron Teaching School Hub extends a warm welcome to colleagues old and new, and our best wishes for the year ahead. We're here to serve schools, leaders and teachers across our region and would love to find out how we can help you achieve your goals this year. You can find information about...

The 'Class of 2023' trainees with our Lead Partners CTSN SCITT, Mid Essex ITT and West Essex SCITT have been awarded QTS and have enjoyed some well deserved celebrations. Congratulations from Saffron Teaching School Hub and good luck to all as they embark on their new roles as fully qua...

UCL are conducting a longitudinal study to evaluate the impact of the statutory framework for ECT induction introduced in September 2021. The new framework intends to support the retention of teachers and to improve teaching practice. The second interim report was published this year, focu...

Engaging in an NPQ represents an investment of time, resources and expertise from programme members, school leaders and specialist facilitators alike.  So, what is the return on that investment?   

New Vision English Hub, one of 34 English Hubs nationwide, supports schools in achieving excellence in teaching reading and early language development, and provides funding and free support to schools in Essex and North East London.  We asked two schools in the Saffron Teaching School Hub ar...

Having completed a substantial amount of CPD around metacognition over the last two years, we recently revisited the importance of modelling and shared writing from EYFS to the end of KS2 in our setting. Improving outcomes in writing continues to be a high priority element of our School Development...

On Wednesday 22 May 2024, the East of England Teaching School Hubs hosted an online 'ITT into ECT' conference for trainee teachers who will become ECTs in September. Resources from this event are now available online.

The Appropriate Body (AB) service has been reformed by DfE and from September 2024 Teaching School Hubs will become the main provider of AB services. 

School and Music leaders from Primary and Secondary schools across Essex met on Monday 29 April at Saffron Teaching School Hub for a day to focus on creating their Music Education Development Plans, a requirement for all schools to have in place as part of the National Plan for Music Educa...

Registration is now open for Saffron Teaching School Hub's free online Summer Term Early Years seminar on Tuesday 4 June 5-6pm.

From September 2024, the Lead Provider for Saffron Teaching School Hub's Early Career programme will be Teach First.  We would like to thank our current Lead Provider, Education Development Trust (EDT), for the very positive relationship we have had with them. The EDT team have been appr...

Applications for fully funded NPQs starting in Autumn 2024 are now open.