GITEP SCITT
The GITEP SCITT Partnership Board has a strategic role in the leadership and management of GITEP SCITT. The Partnership Board comprises headteachers and teachers from various schools in the county, as well as representatives from our PGCE partner (currently the University of Bristol) and Gloucestershire’s teaching school hubs. The current board members are:
- Dominic Burke (Chair), Headteacher, Balcarras School
- Richard Johnson (Vice-Chair), Headteacher, Severn Vale School
- Richard Gilpin, Headteacher, Pittville School
- Steve Jefferies, Headteacher, Cheltenham Bournside School
- Gwennan Jeremiah, Principal, Wyedean School and Sixth Form Centre
- Kevin McDermott, Headteacher, St Peter’s High School
- Liz Cullis, Director, Balcarras Teaching School Hub
- Chris Nicholas, Director, Odyssey Teaching School Hub
- Jon James, GITEP PGCE Programme Co-Director, University of Bristol
- Nicola Warren-Lee, GITEP PGCE Programme Co-Director, University of Bristol
- Claire Murphy, Trust Education Projects and CPD Manager, SAND Academies Trust
- Becky Rose, Director, GITEP SCITT
All the members of the partnership board share a long experience with, and commitment to, initial teacher training. The partnership board reports on teacher training at all meetings of Gloucestershire Association of Secondary School Leaders, ensuring that all schools are fully involved in teacher training.
Gloucestershire Association of Secondary School Leaders (GASSL) Ltd
Gloucestershire is unique in having an association of school leaders with its own charitable business, GASSL Ltd, dedicated to teacher training and professional development. GITEP SCITT benefits from strong links to the business, with some of the trustees of GASSL Ltd also members of the partnership board of GITEP SCITT.
Current GASLL Ltd Trustees are:
- Gwennan Jeremiah, Principal, Wyedean School and Sixth Form Centre (Chair)
- Dominic Burke, Headteacher, Balcarras School
- James Richardson, Headteacher, Pate’s Grammar School
- Will Morgan, Principal, The Cotswold School
- Helen Wood, Headteacher, High School Leckhampton
