Training

It is recognised that Continued Professional Development is essential for teachers and support staff in permanent jobs. It is even more vital for supply teachers to access regular CPD. Principal Teachers focuses on regular opportunities for training for our staff to help them keep their knowledge and skills up-to-date. This also ensures that the professional standard of their qualifications and registrations is maintained.

We provide CPD opportunities for FREE training to our teachers and teaching assistants on a termly basis, such as Teamteach, Thrive and Behaviour Management.

QAT Course

Our exclusive team of teachers and support staff are rigorously screened and inducted through our online Quality Assured Training programme. This comprehensive induction course outlines and briefs new recruits in our PT Code of Practice, our set of mandatory standards for our supply staff. This course, exclusive to PT, is designed to give our supply teachers and TA’s the tools to work as excellent practitioners. This means we can assure schools that we provide the highest calibre of supply teachers and are committed to driving up the Quality of teaching and learning.

Continued Professional Development

We have high expectations of ourselves and of the supply staff we provide. As a result, we ensure that our office staff and teachers complete relevant and up to date training. All our consultants are qualified in, or working towards the REC Certificate In Recruitment Practice and many have teaching and education qualifications.

We also aim to offer all our teachers and support staff relevant and pertinent training. This includes insisting that staff undertake up to date safeguarding training and read Keeping Children Safe In Education – Statutory guidance for schools and colleges (DfE) before being placed in schools.