A Lancaster-based teacher training provider has been judged ‘exceptional’ in its latest Ofsted inspection.
Ripley Initial Teacher Training (ITT) received the highest possible assessment for achievement, curriculum, teaching and training, inclusion, leadership, and professional behaviours, personal development and wellbeing, in the report published on August 11.
Compliance standards, including safeguarding, were also met.
Inspectors also described Ripley ITT’s approach to preparing trainees for the demands of the profession as exemplary.
“To be judged exceptional across every area of both primary and secondary provision is a tremendous achievement and reflects the work of the Ripley ITT team, as well as South Cumbria ITT, our partner schools and our wider partnership in ensuring that trainees receive a world class experience," said Felicity Ackroyd, Director of Ripley ITT.
“For a relatively small multi-academy trust, the scale and reach of this work is remarkable. Ripley ITT is strengthening the teaching workforce across the North and supporting schools in communities where excellent teaching has a huge impact on opportunity and social mobility.
Sara Smallman, a secondary drama trainee, said: “The support I received from Ripley ITT was exceptional. The team took the time to understand me as an individual, challenged me to become the best teacher I could be and gave me the confidence to believe in what I was capable of achieving.”
A spokesperson from one of Ripley ITT’s partner schools, said: “Ripley ITT is a true partnership. Schools are listened to, involved in shaping the training and supported throughout the process. The partnership is helping schools across our region develop and retain the excellent teachers our communities need.”
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