At KITE, we understand how busy you will be during your year of training and also appreciate that individuals may have other commitments at home. As a result, we aim to ensure that trainees are placed no more than a forty-minute drive from their home, although it is often less!

Placement schools are often situated within Kernow Learning Trust. However, we also work with a number of partner schools across Cornwall. We ensure that school-based colleagues are excellent practitioners and are excited at the prospect of having a trainee teacher and being part of your journey.

During the academic year, trainees will have placements in two contrasting schools in two different phases. 

Placement Organisation:

Autumn Term 2024: Trainees will have one main placement for the whole of the autumn term. 

Spring Term 2025: Trainees will spend the spring term in a contrasting school placement, in a different phase. 

Summer Term 2025: Trainees will return to the same class in their main placement school for the summer term.
 

For those who are on the 3-7 programme, you will have a placement in a reception class and a placement in either year 1 or year 2.

For those who are on the 5-11 programme, you will have a placement in key stage 1 (year 1 or 2) and another placement in key stage 2 (year 3-6).