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The Ogden Trust is inviting applications for its Early Career Teacher Development programme, which offers free mentoring and support for early career physics teachers from initial teacher training through to their fifth year of teaching.

There are two strands within the programme to offer the support needed as teachers progress through their early teaching career:

• Teaching Core Physics programme - provides half termly coaching in local peer groups for secondary (or middle school) teachers in their first or second year of teaching physics at any level
• Developing Physics Specialisms programme - offers individual mentoring for second to fifth year teachers teaching GCSE and/or A Level physics

Priority will be given to applications that meet one or more of the following criteria:

• applicant school’s free school meals % above national average (27%)
• applicant school is Ofsted 3 or 4 rated
• applicant teacher is lone physics specialist, or
• applicant teacher is a non-physics specialist teaching post-16 physics and employed as a physics teacher.
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All those who successfully apply for the Early Career programme will be invited to a fully funded two-day festival in August, where they can build networks, share practice and develop skills.

Applications must be submitted by the 4th July 2025.