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SCITT applications are received through the UCAS system. Further details can be found on their website:
http://www.ucas.com/apply/teacher-training
In order to apply for a place on our SCITT course, you must have (or be in the process of completing):
Mid Essex ITT has been training teachers within local secondary schools in Essex since 1994, making it one of the oldest SCITTs in the country. We are excited to be launching a new course, starting in September 2025, in partnership with local schools offering specialist provision for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.
The course will run alongside Mid Essex ITT’s existing outstanding teacher training course with the following benefits and differences:
To be eligible to train as a teacher, you will need the following qualifications:
Candidates must be eligible to study in the UK. We are unable to sponsor student route visas.
You can read more about the eligibility requirements here.
The final deadline to apply is Monday 30th June 2025, though we recommend submitting an application as soon as possible. If you are shortlisted, you will be invited for an interview and there is a choice of two days - either Friday 27th June or Tuesday 8th July. Successful candidates will be asked to attend our three days of induction training on Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th July + one other date TBC. You can apply to up to four courses here.
Tuition fees of £9,535 are payable by the candidate to Mid Essex ITT. A loan from Student Finance England is available for trainee teachers and you can find out more here.
Trainee can also access maintenance loans / grants from Student Finance England visit Support with living costs from gov.uk to find out how much you could borrow.
Whilst you are training, you will receive a bursary, the same as the other secondary trainees. Bursary payments are tax-free and paid to you in ten, equal monthly instalments. Bursaries range from £5,000 - £29,000 depending on your subject, and you can find a list below.
Further information about the bursaries can be found here.
Candidates are advised to check their eligibility for the bursaries.
Mid Essex ITT is a secondary teacher training provider, so you will be training part of the week in a secondary school. You will need to choose a subject specialism to teach in both of your placements. To be eligible you should ideally have a degree in this subject, or a related subject or an A Level (grade C or above). You can find the list of subjects below, and the funding that is available.
You apply through the Department for Education’s Apply for teacher training website:
https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-teacher-training
You can will need to provide details of your qualifications, paid/unpaid work experience and write a personal statement. You will also need to provide details of two referees who will only be contacted if you are offered a place. You can find out more about the application process here.
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Secondary Subject |
Bursary available |
Course to Apply to |
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Art & Design |
£10,000 |
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Biology |
£26,000 |
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Chemistry |
£29,000 |
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Computing |
£29,000 |
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Design & Technology |
£26,000 |
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English |
£5,000 |
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Geography |
£26,000 |
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Maths |
£29,000 |
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Music |
£10,000 |
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Physics |
£29,000 |
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Religious Education |
£10,000 |
Our new course has been put together in partnership with the SEAX Trust. The SEAX Trust is a multi academy trust of five academies, each with their unique style and specialism. The SEAX schools are:
Our final deadline to apply is Monday 30th June 2025. However, we strongly recommend making an early application as places are limited.
The course runs from 1st September 2025 – 30th June 2026.You will need to attend our two days of induction training, before the summer, on Monday 15th and Tuesday 15th July 2025.
Upon successful completion of the course, you will receive Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and a PGCE from Anglia Ruskin University. You can read more about the PGCE course here.
The eight additional training days will take place at different special schools, where you will have a chance to have a tour of the school, meet staff and students and receive training from expert colleagues. The training will cover topics such as:
Mid Essex ITT have developed this new course in conjunction with senior leaders from special schools in Essex to ensure it meets the needs of the children and schools in the area. It has been underpinned by the latest guidance from the Department for Education regarding ITT and special schools, ensures fidelity with the ITTECF and ensures compliance with the ITT criteria and supporting advice. If you have any questions about the course content, please contact our Director, Sophie Allchin who would be happy to help.
Are you interested in ...?
If so, we are holding some free events which will be perfect for you! Mid Essex ITT have been training teachers for 30 years and have recently been awarded their second Outstanding judgement by Ofsted (February 2024).
Please register your interest here so we know to expect you at the event of your choice.
All events will include a presentation from Mid Essex ITT staff, and there will be the chance to have your questions answered!
For in-person events, Notley High School has plenty of free parking on site and the venue is fully accessible. The address is: Notley High School, Notley Road, Braintree, Essex, CM7 1WY.
Refreshments will be provided for guests.
Please note that, unfortunately, Mid Essex ITT cannot sponsor visas.
If you can't make any of these dates, don't worry! You can always book in a one-to-one chat with our Director here at a day and time that suits you.
You can also book in a chat with our course administrator, Julie Rickards, here.
What makes Mid Essex Initial Teacher Training so special?
For our September 2021 intake, we have space for 60 trainee teachers. Would you like to be one of them?
If you would like to find out more, please
Here are some of the reasons why you should choose Mid Essex for your teacher training:
You can follow Mid Essex ITT on Social Media here:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/meitt
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/MidEssexITT
Wordpress blog: https://midessexitt.wordpress.com/
The links below also may of interest to you:
Get Into Teaching - www.getintoteaching.education.gov.uk
UCAS - www.ucas.com
The Department for Education - www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education
Ofsted - www.ofsted.gov.uk
You can also call the Get Into Teaching Line for more information about becoming a teacher:
Freephone: 0800 389 2500
At Mid Essex ITT, we believe that trainee well-being is one of the most essential aspects of the training year, and this is why we continue to make this our highest priority.
We believe that it is important to support our trainees in any way that we can in order to make them resilient, empathetic and robust individuals. We employ a range of strategies that we believe allow our trainees to focus on the demands of the training and academic rigour. You can read about these in detail by downloading our Well-being Booklet.
We also undertake regular training where possible. In late 2023 and early 2024 members of the leadership team underwent training in understanding the Menopause run by the National College, and also in Mental Health First Aid, by taking a course accredited by Mental Health First Aid England.
We have listed some useful well-being links and resources for you here:
Headspace can be used as a tool to help you to practise mindfulness, meditation, or you can listen to one of their recordings designed to help you sleep, focus on work or exercise. You will just need a photo of your school ID badge (or similar) to prove you are an ‘educator’: www.headspace.com
Click on the link below to release a “Happiness calendar” each month which you might like for yourselves or to use at tutor time.
https://www.actionforhappiness.org/calendars
The Essex Wellbeing Service provides practical, emotional, health and wellbeing advice, support and signposting – supporting families to adapt to the 'new normal'. Please do make use of this service.
Mental health resources for children, students, parents, carers and school/college staff:
https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/
https://www.nasbtt.org.uk/temz/wellbeing/
Here's what some of our trainees have to say about how they felt supported during their training:
"They have carefully planned the course and activities so that they are manageable, as well as making sure every question is answered and every query listened to, and it is apparent all the work they do behind the scenes to look after all of us."
"MEITT tutor regularly checks in on welfare. Makes it clear they are always available to support. Listens to concerns and always responds to emails and queries in a timely fashion. I have felt incredibly well supported by Holly. "
"Provide well-being sessions at core training with advice on how to redcude stress and workload. Additionally, the notices every week have further wellbeing tips and the course tutors regularly check in on us one-to-one.
"There are so many options for us- such as wellbeing breakfast, and most importantly, I feel like I could approach anyone at mid Essex for support ."
"Wellbeing core training sessions and tips are very helpful. Also the support from the mid-Essex team, especially Holly as my course tutor, for being amazing with the personal and approachable touch, always giving me support where necessary."
"Integrating well-being check-ins during trainees' weekly mentor meetings, Organising a monthly well-being breakfast to catch up on trainees' experiences, Scheduling training sessions focused on teaching trainees how to look after their well-being."
"For myself specifically my course tutor has taken the time to discuss with me my employment options and offered guidance for applying and reaching out to potential employment school. As a cohort there are frequent opportunities to leave feedback and address concerns via surveys, we are also encouraged to email or speak to one of the course leaders if there is anything we would like to discuss whether this be regarding workload, well-being, planning, PGCE, etc. "
"Any time I have had a wellbeing concern I have felt like I can approach my course tutor."
"MEITT are always there to support us. That may be through well-being drop ins before every training session or face to face conversations. I am really grateful for this."
"Excellent support from the MEITT team including course tutors, other trainees, etc."
Trainee Teacher 2022-2023
"MEITT has always been very helpful in supporting the well-being by organising well-being drop ins with our course tutor every Thursday before the training. It really helped me when I had an issue."
"I think that MEITT have been great in supporting my well-being. If a problem has arisen, they are there to give the right support to help you through it and I have been very grateful for that this year."
"Absolutely outstanding, support and encouragement always available. I feel like my well being issues were dealt with in a professional and caring manner. If it wasn’t for the support provided from the Mid Essex , I’m not sure I would have been able to complete the course. They have been superstars!"
"During my training year MEITT have been incredibly supportive and put the well-being of its students first, particularly during such a turbulent year. They were always very approachable and made you feel comfortable going to them with any issues or questions. They listened to the needs of the cohort and ensured that the programme evolved with the ongoing pandemic and its implications so that the trainees always felt supported, mentally and emotionally."
"Mid Essex has been nothing but kind and supportive during my time here. Teacher training was challenging at times for me and Mid Essex had so many options in place to support me. The support changed my life and I cannot thank them enough for it."
"MEITT have consistently supported my well-being during this training year. As a single mother of three children, MEITT have always offered an open-door policy to advise and discuss any potential issues. They have considered my needs as an individual and adapted things to help to support my well-being.
"MEITT have also offered a referral to external advice and support for me during an extremely difficult training year through this pandemic. I am grateful for all the support and guidance I have received."
The overarching intent of the Mid Essex curriculum is to produce committed, optimistic, research-engaged and effective secondary teachers. Our curriculum map and assessment indicators show how the content has been judiciously chosen to reflect these core values.
Our curriculum fully incorporates the five core areas of the CCF - behaviour management, pedagogy, curriculum, assessment and professional behaviours - which mirror the eight Teachers’ Standards. We have also introduced our own components to the curriculum, going beyond the CCF.
Trainees are assessed against our Assessment Indicators during the course and then assessed against the Teachers’ Standards at the end of the course.
Much of the curriculum has been designed with the intention that knowledge and experience are blended and developed through classroom practice. Trainees are taught the essential declarative knowledge (‘learnt that...’ statements) they need to know at our core training.
In addition, trainees are set both School-Based and Stage-Based tasks. Each subject discipline has its own identity, which is informed through content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge.
Our curriculum has been judiciously chosen and sequenced so that it flows coherently and is divided into distinct stages. Our three compulsory days of induction training in July provide trainees with a firm grounding in the professionalism component of the CCF, as well as providing them with all statutory training to ensure that they are ready to start in their placement schools.
In the early stages of training - ‘Secure Foundations’ - our curriculum is front loaded with high expectations and behaviour, moving on to pedagogy and later on to curriculum and assessment. Our spiralised curriculum ensures these are revisited during the ‘Revisit and Practise’ stage, when trainees are at their B placement, and again in the final term.
As trainees develop their general and subject-specific pedagogical knowledge and combine this with the opportunity to apply this knowledge in school, more challenging content and a broader range of topics are introduced.
This is combined with an increasing teaching load so that trainees have more opportunities to apply what they have learnt in core training in the classroom. In addition, each subject discipline has its own identity which is informed through both content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge.
Each subject has its own subject handbook to reflect this and its own curriculum determined by the Lead Subject Tutor.
In addition, trainees are set both School-Based and Stage-Based tasks relating to applying the ‘Learn How’ to statements from the Core Content Framework in their teaching. Furthermore. Each subject discipline has its own curriculum intent and identity and is lead by a Lead Subject Tutor who provides weekly Subject Expert Training deconstructing the mornings core training through a subject lens.
Our curriculum has been judiciously chosen and sequenced so that it flows coherently and is divided into distinct stages. Our two compulsory days of induction training in July provide trainees with a firm grounding in the professionalism component of the CCF, as well as providing them with all statutory training to ensure that they are ready to start in their placement schools from September.
Having trained with Mid Essex ITT in 2007, I feel that this has given me a solid grounding on which to build a successful teaching career. Over the course of the last 11 years, I have had many exciting opportunities and roles. I started my career based in the English department at Notley High School & Braintree Sixth Form where I was then promoted to a Lead Teacher. This experience afforded me with the opportunity to become a Head of Year where I was fortunate enough to watch the most wonderful year group of students become independent, talented and ambitious young adults. During this time, I also completed my Masters in Educational Research. This has made me see the importance of reflecting on your own practice throughout your career, not just during your formative years. After seeing my year group leave, I became Assistant Headtecaher and the Head of Braintree Sixth Form, which has now lead me to this role.
I feel extremely fortunate to be in a position by which by I can play a part in developing our future teachers. I am excited to work with the talented and experienced team already in place at Mid Essex ITT and look forward to building on the success of the previous Programme Manager. I am joining Mid Essex ITT at an exciting time following our recent outstanding Ofsted report and I also look forward to further developing relationships with the Mid Essex ITT partnership schools.
There has never been a more exciting time to step in to the world of teaching and I can't think of a better place to train than with Mid Essex ITT and their plethora of outstanding host schools.
Mid Essex ITT really do value the contributions that our Mentors make, and the pivotal role they play in supporting our trainees on their journey to becoming qualified teachers.
Over the course of the academic year, we ensure that we offer a wide range of developmental opportunities for our Mentors. Being a Mentor is not only a hugely-rewarding experience, but is also great CPD for future positions.
We offer our Mentors:
Below is a lovely testimonial from one of our Mentors:
"Being a mentor was one of the most enjoyable experiences of my teaching career to date. I was able to nurture and support my trainee as they progressed over the course of the year. I was incredibly proud to watch the teacher that they have become and to know that I was a part of this. I was also provided with ample support from Mid Essex ITT, and this opportunity certainly provided me with some key skills that have been beneficial when applying for my next middle leadership post" – English Mentor, Notley High School.
If you are interested in being a mentor for a future trainee teacher, please contact our course tutor Holly Sutton, who oversees our Mentor contingent, by emailing her at
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