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Starting your training with Teach West London means you’ll never be on this journey alone. We provide:

Dedicated mentor support – regular check-ins and personalised coaching.
Expert-led professional development – sessions designed to build your confidence and skills.
Wellbeing and pastoral care – a network to support both your personal and professional growth.
Career progression opportunities – access to Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) to support your journey from trainee to middle and senior leadership opportunities.

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Our teacher training programme blends expert-led guidance, hands-on experience and continuous professional development to help you thrive, whether you're training to teach in secondary or primary education.

Primary Trainees

Teach across a range of subjects, building the confidence to support pupils at all stages of their learning.
Develop strategies for inclusive classrooms, supported by Eden Academy Trust and Gill Smith, our Primary Special School lead.
Receive expert-led training in outstanding schools across our partnership.
Mosaic learning platform and subject knowledge audits help you track learning and set personal goals.

Watch our video: Why Teach Primary?

Secondary Trainees

Work closely with a subject mentor, an expert in your chosen subject, throughout your placement.
Each Monday afternoon, attend sessions led by your Subject Lead, where you’ll explore how theory translates into classroom practice.
Learn through demonstration, observation and targeted subject tasks that build your skills and confidence.
Use subject knowledge audits and the Mosaic online platform to assess your progress and refine your teaching.

Hear from Secondary teachers:

Want to know what your week could look like?

Whether you're training in a primary or secondary school, here's how your time is structured to maximise learning, reflection and practical teaching

ITT Team

Liza Hooper

Director of ITT - Primary Programmes

Liza has over 25 years of teaching, learning and leadership experience in London schools, Liza is a highly experienced ITT Primary mentor and instructional coach.

Nicola Fish

Director of ITT - Secondary Programmes

Nicola has worked in ITT since 2019 with schools across London. Previously, Nicola has supported early career teachers through her work in secondary schools in Hillingdon where she taught Science.

Ann Bowen-Breslin

Primary Lead Mentor & Quality Assurer

Former headteacher of a primary school in Hillingdon and Head of a Teaching School where she worked with local partners to support training of teachers on the SCITT. Ofsted inspector and receives regular CPD related to Education Inspection Framework.

Zahrah Obaydi

Primary Quality Assurer

Zahrah is a former Assistant Headteacher in Brent and a school governor at a primary school in Harrow. With significant experience in staff development, Zahrah has provided CPD and training across schools. Zahrah is a trained coach.

Gill Smith

Primary Special School Lead

Gill is an experienced practitioner specialising in pupils with severe or profound learning disabilities. She now specialises in Teacher Development & initial teacher training. Gill is passionate about ensuring all pupils make the best possible progress.

Becky Knowles

ITT Secondary Quality Assurer and Lead Mentor

Becky has been mentoring and lecturing in ITT at St Mary’s University since 2019 for the PGCE Secondary course. She is a secondary History specialist and has 20 years of teaching and learning experience.

Florence Glanfield

Secondary Quality Assurer and Lead Mentor

Jo Fazel

ITT Administrator

Jo supports the recruitment of Initial Teacher Trainees from enquiry through to recruitment and beyond. She has extensive HR Recruitment & Training experience within sectors such as the NHS, Communications & Media Production.

Rachael Fletcher

ITT Delivery and TSH Administrator

Rachael joined the team in 2025.

ITT Secondary Subject Team

Kat Sullivan

Art

Head of Art at Ada Lovelace CofE High School

Nick Mayne

Computing

Trust Lead Computing at Ada Lovelace CofE High School

Liz Gould

English

Head of English at Ada Lovelace CofE High School

Jack Doyle

Geography

Head of Geography at Ada Lovelace CofE High School

Russell Coombes

History

Head of History at Ealing Fields CofE High School

Luke Moores

Maths

Head of Maths at Ealing Fields CofE High School

Ellie Moran

PE

Head of PE at Ada Lovelace CofE High School

Kumal Alyas

RE

Head of RE at Ealing Fields CofE High School

Felix Hall

Science

Science Teacher at Ada Lovelace CofE High School

Sheena Mcloughlin

Social Sciences

Curriculum Leader of Social Sciences at Ruislip High School

Jason Lobo

MFL

MFL Teacher at Ada Lovelace CofE High School

Teaching is one of the most fulfilling careers you can pursue. Our trainees go on to transform lives every day. Here’s what some of our Teach West London-trained teachers had to say about their experiences:

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Questions? Contact our team at ITT@teachwestlondon.org.uk.

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We can’t wait to see you thrive at Teach West London!

We've carefully curated reading lists to help give you a strong, informed start to the academic year. Whether you're training in a primary or secondary setting, these books and articles will help build your confidence, deepen your understanding of pedagogy and spark ideas for your classroom practice. View our recommended Primary reading list here and Secondary list here.