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Hales Valley Teaching Hub began its work in 2012 when our base school, Lutley Primary School, took on extensive school to school support with Lapal Primary School. In addition to this we wrote the primary School Direct ITT programme for Worcester University and began our ITT journey training those new to the profession.

Since 2012 we have gone from strength to strength. We successfully train a cohort of teachers every year and have 100% employment success rate, following our training, and 100% have stayed in teaching beyond 2 years. We are also now Multi Academy Trust which has 5 Dudley primary schools in our Trust family and we continue to improve life chances and academic outcomes at all 5 schools. We have recently completed an 18 month project improving EYFS outcomes fro 40 schools and over 3000 children across all 4 Black Country Authorities which has been a huge success for all involved. In addition to this we have been part of a 2 year EEF study maximising the impact of teaching assistants (MITA). What this has shown is the importance of the role of the teaching assistant and how they can positively impact on the outcomes for pupils when they work in partnership with their colleagues as a seamless approach to teaching and learning. This is why we are passionate about delivering the HLTA programme as we know the impact that HLTAs have within school when the are able to access the right training and support so they can support our young people in schools.