Primary Postgraduate Initial Teacher Education (Primary PG ITE) Mentor Training

To access your Placement Documentation for Primary, please click here. You will also find on this page any placement-specific mentor training materials and videos.

The Primary PG ITE Mentor Curriculum

The mentor curriculum has been designed to support you in your role as a Reading Partnership mentor. There are a few core sessions if you have a RPT for a placement, all others are optional but available should you wish to complete them. For any modules completed, please ensure you complete the form to show engagement as this year, there will be funding available to claim directly from the DfE at the end of the year for each module completed and your forms will demonstrate engagement and completion. For those who complete all the training, we will be able to award you Mentor Certification at the end of the year.

If you plan to complete all the modules for Mentor Certification, please complete the Mentor Prior Knowledge form. This is matched to the full curriculum and will enable you to still receive your full certification without necessarily completing all the modules. Our Lead Mentors will be in touch to let you know which modules you do not need to complete.

Please ensure you download the Primary PG Mentor Handbook and ITTECF here to support your training:

Mentor Curriculum Modules

Core content for all who mentor this academic year, including certified mentors*, per placement
Item	How?
Curriculum and Placement Familiarisation	Live online mentor training prior to the placement, including reading handbook. Please see placement documentation page for these sessions: Placement Documentation
Tutor Visit during placement (Interim / Progress Review)	Agree date with tutor during window – online and face to face
Engagement with mentor bulletins	Emailed out fortnightly

*  Please note, certificated mentors are those who gained our new certification in 2024-25 or who held Level 3 certification under our old scheme. Alternatively, if you have completed training as an ECT mentor, or gained an NPQLTD or completed mentor training in 2024-25 with another ITE provider, then you are certificated via that route.

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Content for new and non- certificated mentors
Item	How?	Completion form:
Module 1.3: Understanding trainee knowledge and development – Meeting your RPT	Scripts using handbook	N/A – Part of first meeting with mentor following placement handbook
Module 2.1: Implementing the ITE Curriculum – Target setting and observing	Pre-recorded video	https://forms.office.com/e/c9Vj39T7CY
Module 2.3: Mentor knowledge and skills: Observation feedback and constructive conversations	Pre-recorded video	https://forms.office.com/e/MfMkyg3fjm
Mentor 4.2: Mentor knowledge and skills: Stretching your RPT	Pre-recorded video	https://forms.office.com/e/YvfVTDaaBL

Optional content for new mentors
Item	How?	Completion form:
Module 1.1: Mentor knowledge and skills – Developing a professional identity	Pre-recorded video	https://forms.office.com/e/uGuaTbDqtm
Module 1.4: Understanding trainee knowledge and development – Being a mentor in your school	Document to read – see below	https://forms.office.com/e/3RV1aKLTTM
Module 3.2: Mentor knowledge and skills: The impact cycle	Pre-recorded video	https://forms.office.com/e/G1cpXEFSyB

Content for those wishing to gain mentor certification Please complete all modules in the ‘Content for new and non-certified mentors’ and ‘Optional content for new mentors’ tables above in addition to the modules below
Item	How?	Completion form:
Module 1.1: Mentor audit and reflection Module 1.1: Prior learning form (Please complete this form if you have prior experience / mentor training and you would like to receive your mentor certification. We will then be in touch to let you know what modules you do not need to complete.)	Self-study	Audit and reflection: https://forms.office.com/e/VinZ69MgVR Prior learning: https://forms.office.com/e/As37Vq3PRc
Module 4.6: Mentor Reflection Completion of 500-word online reflection.	Necessary to gain certification. This is the final form for you to complete and summarises your key learning from the complete mentor curriculum against the Mentor Standards.	https://forms.office.com/e/2bXj7zhMFG

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Mentor Training Materials

1.1: Mentor knowledge and skills: Developing a professional identity and establishing a mentor-trainee relationship

1.3: Understanding trainee knowledge and development – Meeting your RPT

Using the checklist in your handbook (also below) to support you in your first meeting with your RPT.

1.4: Understanding trainee knowledge and development – Being a Mentor

2.1: Implementing the ITE curriculum  – target setting and observing

2.3: Mentor knowledge and skills: Observation, feedback and constructive conversations

Please see supporting clips below that are referenced in the training. Slide 16 refers to clip 1, and slide 44 refers to clip 2.

3.2: Mentor knowledge and skills: The Impact Cycle

4.2: Mentor knowledge and skills: Stretching your RPT: