We provide a wide range of experiences through professional development to ensure our Initial Teacher Training (ITT) student teachers are exposed to a wealth of cultures, experiences and opportunities that broaden their understanding, build their confidence and social skills, promote tolerance, and provide opportunities for self reflection.
Recently our secondary ITT student teachers embarked on their subject knowledge immersion wellbeing day, where they visited London. This was to enhance their subject knowledge and also develop their curiosity as to how these unique experiences could help their future pupils to become immersed in their specific subject teaching and learning.
London rewards curiosity, as was discovered – immersive art at Frameless, vertiginous calm at the Sky Gardens and thoughtful creativity at the Design Museum. Frameless was the starting point.
Surrounded by moving images, layered sounds and responsive projections; paintings became environments, and viewers became participants. Van Gogh‘s brushstrokes rippled like water, Klimt’s gold glows with a cinematic twitch and the boundaries between viewer and artwork quietly dissolved, as we became immersed.
Watching people of all ages react by pointing, lingering, stepping closer – showing how technology can extend artistic expression rather than replace it.
Trainee Teacher