About Us

About The Sheffield SCITT

The Sheffield SCITT (school-centred initial teacher training) is owned and operated by St Clare’s Multi Academy Trust and is led jointly by Notre Dame High School and St Catherine’s Primary School, Sheffield.

What sets us apart is our school-centred approach. From day one you will be emersed in school life, experiencing the full calendar cycle of the academic year and supported at every stage by expert teachers. We pride ourselves on the strong relationships we have with our local partner schools that are all placed within South Yorkshire and Chesterfield including schools in Sheffield, Doncaster, Barnsley and Rotherham.

Our partnership schools see The Sheffield SCITT as the best way to find and develop their own future teachers. We aim to supply most of the Early Career Teacher needs of our partnership of schools and our high-quality training is trusted by the schools we work with.

What makes us unique?

We remain small enough to know every trainee as an individual and give every partner school a voice in the running of the SCITT, but large enough to offer our trainees a diverse and bespoke experience of a different schools within the partnership - including Academies, Maintained Community Schools, Church Schools, those in multicultural inner cities, secondary schools with large sixth forms and primary schools with Early Years Centres.

Local partnerships

Our robust curriculum is ambitious. We don’t only provide training on the core ITTECF curriculum, we pride ourselves that our curriculum goes beyond this to prepare our trainees for their future careers. Our curriculum is contextual as we know the schools and the communities they serve.

We don’t just teach the theory; our trainees experience it and are given the chance to apply it from day one, working with expert mentors and teachers who know how to put theory into practice.

We follow an A-B-A approach to our teaching placements with trainees starting their journey at one of our partner schools for the first term. They will then complete their second placement at a contrasting school, before returning to their first school. Our curriculum is tailored to complement this journey and allow trainees to develop their skills.

Curriculum

What makes us unique is that our trainees are supported and trained by people who are experts within their field. Our weekly hub sessions are led by a range of experts who share their expertise and experiences whilst providing high quality research-led tuition.

Expert training

The Sheffield SCITT School Network

The Sheffield SCITT course is delivered through our network of partner schools and our Training Partners. Whether you enrol directly with us or with one of our Training Partners, you will receive the Sheffield SCITT programme.

Lead Schools

If you choose to enrol directly with us our lead schools are:

Notre Dame

St Catherine’s

To complete your Sheffield SCITT training, you will be placed in at least two of our partner schools.

We work with a range of schools across Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Barnsley and Chesterfield and we are always keen to expand our partnership to include new schools in our local area.

Below is a list of the schools the Sheffield SCITT partnership have worked with during 2025-2026 academic year. Our internship programme also works with a wide network of schools across the South Yorkshire and Chesterfield area.

Primary Partners

Bradfield Dungworth

Barnby Dun

Dobcroft Infant School

Emmaus

Holy Family Catholic Primary

Holy Rood Catholic Primary School

Our Lady and St Joseph’s

Sacred Heart, Sheffield

St Joseph’s, Rawmarsh

St Marie’s School

St Mary’s Catholic Primary School

St Mary’s Primary School

St Wilfrid’s Catholic Primary School

Tornedale Infant Academy

Nether Edge Primary

Hunter’s Bar Infant School

St Gerard’s Catholic Primary School

St Catherine’s

St John Fisher Primary

St Helen’s

St Thomas of Canterbury

St Thomas More

Secondary Partners

All Saints Catholic High School

Doncaster UTC

Hungerhill School

King Ecgbert School

Notre Dame High School

St Bernard’s Catholic High School

St Mary’s Catholic High School

Stocksbridge High School

The McAuley Catholic High School

Work with us as a Partner School

We are always keen to hear from schools who would like to host trainee teachers for their teaching placements. If you are a primary or secondary school within our locality, get in touch with us admin@sheffieldscitt.org.uk

Our partner schools work with us year after year and view hosting our trainees as a valuable experience that adds value to their schools and the wider profession.