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The professional development team from Aldridge Education. Delivery Partner with Teach First for the Early Career Framework, NPQs and school centred initial teacher training. Grow your career: grow their futures.
Yesterday, our Aldridge Education SCITT Trainees took part in subject seminars 🏃 🧪 ➕ 📚 🥐 ✝️ 🗺️
We use online facilitation to ensure trainees access experts wherever they are 💻 🗺️
Come see us on Wed 25th Feb at the Brighton Careers Fair to find out how you could be a qualified teacher by July 2027 🎉
A special celebration for Aldridge Education came with this set of results, as we had our 100th (and 101st!) pass for a staff member at an Aldridge Education school. We love our national network on these courses!
🔥 Celebrating success with the NPQs 🔥
It is always a proud moment when we receive a new set of NPQ results! We have another slew of fantastic Teach First participants who can now say they have achieved their specialist qualification.
#NPQs #specialist #Congratulations #TeachFirst
We’re exhibiting at #IncludEd2026! Don’t miss your chance to join us & others in London on 10.01. Start 2026 focused on #inclusion & connecting with committed professionals. Chat to us about how our bespoke CPD offer can support your community! bit.ly/IncludEd2026 @thedifferenceed.bsky.social
🎟️ 'The new NPQs have changed professional development landscape, but their impact is flatlining'
@growing-together.bsky.social lead, Poppy Nobes
I love delivering the NPQs. However, the current course structure leaves many participants without the chance to take the theoretical and make it practical.
My debut piece in Schools Week calls upon the DfE to consider this during the evolution of the NPQ frameworks 🌱
#GrowingTogether #NPQs
Today we brought our 2025 SCITT cohort together for their first conference of the course 👩🏫 🏫
Why not join our next cohort?
🎉 Applications for our 2026 programme open TOMORROW Secondary subjects in #Salford #Warrington #Darwen #Tottenham #Brighton 🎉
Click here - www.gov.uk/apply-for-te... ✅
#GrowingTogether #NPQ #TeachFirst #LeadershipDevelopment #EducationLeadership #ProfessionalDevelopment #SchoolLeadership #FutureLeaders
🌱 Grow your leadership. Shape the future.
We’re proud to deliver NPQs with Teach First - equipping teachers & leaders with skills, confidence & networks to make lasting impact.
📅 Apply by 16 Oct 2025!
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🌱 Day 5 – Senior Leader View | Behaviour Awareness Week 2025
Culture starts with leadership. Embedding therapeutic practice means staff training, reflection & shared time.
👉 What sustainable change could support staff & pupils?
#BehaviourAwarenessWeek #SchoolLeadership #StaffWellbeing
📊 Day 4 – Middle Leader | #BehaviourAwarenessWeek
Audit your data. How often are sanctions used vs restorative approaches?
Even small shifts influence culture.
👉 What pattern in your data could you address this term?
#MiddleLeadership #BehaviourCulture #RestorativePractice
📋 Day 3 – ECT | #BehaviourAwarenessWeek
Most disruption happens in the “in-between” moments.
Routines & cues make transitions predictable & calm.
👉 Which classroom transition could you refine this week?
#ECTSupport #TeachingPractice #BehaviourStrategies
#RelationshipsMatter #TraineeTeachers #TeachingPractice #BehaviourMatters
🤝Day 2 – Trainee Teacher| #BehaviourAwarenessWeek
Greeting pupils individually shows they are seen & valued.
Strong relationships reduce behaviour challenges more than sanctions.
👉How do you show pupils they matter beyond lesson content?
👂 Day 1 – TA Perspective | #BehaviourAwarenessWeek
Behaviour = communication. A calm “You look upset, need a break?” can open dialogue & reduce tension.
👉 What small strategies help you show pupils you are listening?
#TeachingAssistants #SEND #TraumaInformed #BehaviourMatters
🌟 Behaviour Awareness Week 2025 🌟
We’re joining @GreatMindsTogether to rethink behaviour in schools - not to manage, but to understand.
Each day: 👂TAs 🤝Trainees 📋ECTs 📊Middle Leaders 🌱Senior Leaders.
Let’s build schools where staff & pupils thrive.
#BehaviourAwarenessWeek
Final slide: “You are more prepared than you think ✨ Good luck with your NPQ assessment – you’ve got this!” With Aldridge Education website link.
You're more prepared than you think!
Tip 5: “Use your support network – you’re not alone!” Resources: Brightspace module, TF ‘Writing your response’, GT webinars & drop-ins, Peer/colleague discussions.
Tip 5 - Use your support network
Tip 4: “Manage your time – pace yourself in the 8-day window.” Suggested schedule: Days 1–2 Read & Plan, Days 3–4 Draft, Days 5–6 Refine, Days 7–8 Edit & Submit.
Tip 4 - Manage your time
Tip 3: “Use your NPQ learning – make links explicit.” Sources: Brightspace readings and frameworks, Seminar notes, Examples from your school.
Tip 3 - Use your NPQ Learning
Tip 2: “Plan your structure.” Frame your response around 4 steps: Problems, Solutions, Rationale (research), Implementation (EEF cycle). Diagram shows Explore → Prepare → Deliver → Sustain.
Tip 2 - Plan your structure
Tip 1: “Understand the format – it’s not an essay, it’s an applied leadership case study.” Bullet points: Diagnose the issue(s), Use evidence, Plan implementation, Show impact. 1,500-word limit.
Tip 1 - Understand the format
Preparing for your NPQ Assessment – 5 Practical Tips for the 8-Day Window. Includes guidance on structure, using NPQ learning, time management, and support networks. Blue background with Growing Together logo.
Nervous about your NPQ assessment? Here are 5 tips for the 8-day window:
1) Understand the format
2) Plan structure
3) Use NPQ learning
4) Manage time
5) Use support network
✨ You’re more prepared than you think!
More: aldridgeeducation.org/News/Prepari...
#NPQ #GrowingTogether #Leadership
Wishing all of our school colleagues a happy Summer holiday🏝️
We've had a brilliant year working with you and have been blown away by your commitment to your own learning and to the pupils in your schools 👩🏫
We're also taking some leave over, but please email and we'll respond as soon as we can
🎉 Huge congrats to all ECTs finishing your 2-year induction across Aldridge Education! You've shown passion, resilience & heart. Enjoy your break, you've earned it! 🌿☀️ #ECT #ECF #TogetherWeGrow
🎓 We're so proud of our 2024 SCITT cohort!
We can't wait to follow your careers as ECTs and beyond, lots of you in your SCITT school 🎉
A massive well done from all of us in the Growing Together team, and a huge thanks to all of your mentors across Aldridge Education 🥳
@teachfirst.bsky.social
📝 Today’s a good day to say it loud: Thank you, teachers.
For the patience, the passion, the extra hours, and the belief in us when we needed it most—you matter.💙
#ThankATeacher #Gratitude #EducationMatters
If you have any questions about the role before applying, please take a look at the job pack and drop us an email to GrowingTogether@aldridgeeducation.org.
🚨 We are hiring!🚨 Are you passionate about professional development? Do you have experience leading or facilitating on the NPQs? Do you want to have impact on a national scale? Trust Lead for Professional Development (NPQ Lead) could be for you!
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#joinus
👀Still looking for an ECT Programme?👀
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(Like Jodeth!)👇
💪 Structured Support
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