Blog

Mankind owes the child the best that it has to give (The Geneva Declaration 1924)

Are you a collector? A diary writer? A journal keeper? We do this to record and capture happy and challenging times. I keep a journal of quotes or lyrics that mean or have meant something to me. I enjoy…

Image by rawpixel.com

I work with an amazing group of colleagues without whom our school could not function – the Teaching Assistants (TAs).  They prompt, clue, model and correct all day long to support teachers to deliver the curriculum, as well as everything else. What does their day…

I am just now starting Week 5 of the KNSTE Initial Teacher Training, and it has gone so quick! I was in my first placement school for a week right at the beginning of the school term where I could focus on observing how my class teacher set expectations, got to know the children, and established…

Image by rawpixel.com

Are you thinking of training to teach?

Have you always wanted to be working in a classroom environment?

Are you looking for a change in career for the 23/24 academic year?

You may be wondering what you need to do first to get your application…

A voice for everyone

Teachers from Summerbank Primary Academy had early misgivings about Philosophy for Children (P4C). Back in 2018 they joined colleagues from across The Societas Trust (a multi-academy trust in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent) – for Level 1 training. Summerbank had, and…

Our 22-23 cohort have had a busy year to date! Since starting with us last September there has been so much happening both in the Bungalow and in their placement schools!

Right at the beginning of the year, on the first day of term, placement 1 begins and our trainees are starting in…

Every teacher is a language teacher – supporting EAL learners in the classroom

Since the nineteenth century Britain has been a multicultural country, greatly benefitting from diversity in its people, cultures and communities. Today, many British cities are what is described as…

Why KNSTE chose to engage with apprenticeships

At  Keele and North Staffordshire Teacher Education (KNSTE) our vision statement is ‘rooted in evidence, reaching for excellence’ (www.knste-shaw.org.uk) With this mind we are continually looking to develop our capabilities in a way that…

Regularly, our perceived biggest problem is our obsession with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes and the guilty feeling that we are not getting enough done. We must control the ultimate time management problem – how best to get everything done.

Let’s put this into perspective.…

If you could bottle something nebulous, what would it be? In the KNSTE office there is an image of a bottle of Human Kindness, but you might wish to bottle the essence of a loved one, a ray of sunshine for those dark, cold, wintry nights we’re facing (with the central heating turned down low) or a…

This blog post is from a previous trainee. He has had his article published in 'Primary History' and it is about the monument he found whilst on Placement 1 with us here at Keele and North Staffordshire Teacher Education.

Many thanks to James for allowing us to share his article on our…

Music is a real passion of mine and this quote from Plato absolutely resonates with me. I have been singing for as long as I can remember and I have been playing the clarinet for around 50 years. I still play in a local orchestra as well as playing piano at my church and my degree is in music too.…