Central London Teaching School Hub

Paddington Academy has Teaching School Hub status

Teaching school hubs are school-led centres of excellence for teacher and leadership training and development. There are 87 hubs across the country and are made up of some of the best schools and multi-academy trusts in the country.

The Central London Teaching School Hub is based at Paddington Academy and serves schools across the boroughs of Camden, Islington, Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster. We provide programmes across our multi-academy trust, United Learning. We are proud to provide high-quality professional development to teachers at all stages of their careers.

We offer programmes to teachers at all stages of their careers:

• school-based initial teacher training (ITT)
• the early career framework which launched this September
• the new specialist national professional qualifications (NPQ)
• leadership NPQs
• appropriate body services for early career teachers - schools that are not currently appropriate bodies will need to register as an appropriate body after becoming teaching school hubs

Teaching school hubs also promote and deliver other high-quality evidence-based professional development to school leaders and teachers. At the heart of this development is our students; we want to ensure that students in this country receive the best educational opportunities, and that means investing and supporting the continued professional development of our teachers.