TEACHER INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME 2023

By Mr J Thomas

The Cherwell School were delighted to welcome 13 undergraduate students for 3 weeks to be part of the Teacher Internship Programme 2023. This programme is a Department for Education scheme which is aimed to give current university students considering a career in teaching, first hand experience in a school setting.

The programme was rich and varied and included visits to The Swan School and New Marston Primary School. Specialist Training sessions on Social Wellbeing, Behaviour for Learning, Building Positive Relationships with Students, Teaching & Learning and Safeguarding were extremely well received by the interns and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. By the second and third week, interns were delivering teaching segments to put into practice the skills they were developing as a result of the Internship Programme.

Interns left the programme with a wide range of examples, experiences and information to support an application into teacher training. A representative from the Department for Education visited and was in awe with the programme put together, the opportunities given to the interns and the comradery between the interns themselves.

If you are interested in finding out more about the Internship Programme (which will run again next year), please do not hesitate to contact the Teacher Internship Lead - James Thomas (jthomas@cherwellschool.org) who will be happy to share more information with you.