Our Partners
Our ITT programme is accredited by Bright Futures SCITT.
The Bright Futures SCITT is a dynamic, high-quality teacher training provider who act as Accredited Provider for our teacher training programmes in Early Years, Primary and Secondary. They are part of the Bright Futures Teaching School Hub, one of the UKs 87 centres of excellence for teacher training and development.
Their work supports schools and trusts by investing in their workforce to grow, recruit, develop and retain the very best teachers, support staff and leaders.
Judged by Ofsted as ‘Good’, Bright Futures SCITT has a proven track record of providing outstanding teacher training for over 10 years.
Find out more about Bright Futures SCITT
We partner with The University of Derby for our PGCE element.
They strive for excellence through their high expectations from recruitment, through training, and into employment to empower the future generations of teachers. The University of Derby is rated GOLD in the recent Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) outcomes released in September 2023, placing the university in the top 20% of universities in the country.
Our PGCE programme is a blended model with the university providing a lecturer team who comes to Manchester to host face-to-face sessions at the start of each of the three modules.
We work with the university to produce teachers who are:
- Competent and confident professionals who learn from research, direct experience, their peers, and other sources of knowledge;
- Epistemic agents, acting as independent thinkers, who learn to search for theories and research that can underpin, challenge or illuminate their practice. Our trainees learn to analyse and interrogate evidence and arguments, drawing critically and self-critically from a wide range of evidence to make informed decisions in the course of their practice;
- Able to engage in inquiry-rich practice and are encouraged to be intellectually curious about their work with the capacity to be innovative, creative, and receptive to new ideas;
- Responsible professionals who embody high standards of professional ethics, who act with integrity and recognise the social responsibilities of education, working towards a socially just and sustainable world
Find out more about The University of Derby
Bradford For Teaching
Bradford for Teaching is a Teaching School Hub campaign to promote the benefits of schools engaging with Initial Teacher Training.
Co-op Academies Trust are proud to work with other ITT providers that want Bradford to be the first choice career destination for talented individuals who want to train or build a career as a teacher.
Our fundamental mission revolves around three exciting ambitions:
- Collaboratively enhancing our city's reputation as an exceptional hub for training, teaching, and career advancement.
- Championing the recruitment and retention of top-tier educators to Bradford's schools.
- Empowering schools to flourish as beacons of excellence, fostering the development of outstanding teachers.