SCITT & ITE Dulwich College continues to support the growth of school-centred teacher training programmes, particularly in target subjects, writes Elsa Tatevossian, SCITT Administrator D uring the 2023–24 academic year, we enriched our partnership with the University of Roehampton, and now offer teacher training in Biology, Business Studies (with Economics), and Chemistry and Comput- ing, in addition to Modern Languages, Maths and Phys- ics through our SCITT (School Centred Initial Teacher Training) providers. We are enabling more trainees to gain qualified teacher status (with a PGCE) in these target subjects, thereby supporting schools in London and more widely across the South East. Lead Partner Route is a new government-led initia- tive that seeks to place schools at the centre of Initial Teacher Education (ITE). Working with the University of Roehampton, we take a leading role in recruiting trainee teachers and in designing and delivering the train- ing programme. This is a similar model to our SCITT programmes, where we are the South London hub lead school for both the National Modern Languages and the National Maths and Physics SCITTS.
contemporary France, Germany and Spain. The breadth and engagement demonstrated by these talks has been fantastic, allowing us to spotlight the work of many suc- cessful LGBTQ+ people in society. The Sports Department took the lead on our Rainbow Laces campaign during DC PRIDE, which has helped to challenge some of the harmful stereotypes that can create barriers to LGBTQ+ people participating in sports. These barriers simply cannot exist given the overwhelming evidence of the benefits of exercise for people’s mental and physical health. The campaign culminated in many of our pupils sporting their Rainbow Laces during a Saturday fixture block against Harrow School. In the Junior School, DC PRIDE was marked through the themes of equality and diversity, with a focus on cele- brating our individual uniqueness. In History lessons, pu- pils investigated some of the elements of the identities of key figures that may be missed out in mainstream texts. In DUCKS, pupils celebrated what distinguishes ‘me from you and you from me’ through stories such as The Same But Different Too by Karl Newson and Love Makes a Family by Sophie Beer. DC PRIDE also provided the perfect opportunity to improve understanding in our staff body of the impor- tance of pronouns to a person’s identity. We provided colleagues with a template email signature that includes a space for pronouns, and invited them to use it if they wished. This tied in well to the Trans Awareness training that took place after half term. We have been delighted with the engagement in our first DC PRIDE. It has prompted a great number of meaningful conversations around the College and we very much look forward to building on our work throughout the remainder of this year and into DC PRIDE 2025 . ◉
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