Principal Teachers News Archive

Welcome to the Principal Teachers news archive. All items of news will be kept here for you to view.


A big thank you to all our teachers and school representatives who were able to attend our end of term summer ceilidh at the Catterick Bridge Hotel last Saturday. It was lovely to meet, eat, dance and catch up! Thank you again to all our teachers and teaching assistants who have worked so hard this year. We hope you have a relaxing summer and look forward to catching up with you all in the new academic year.

A big thank you to all our teachers and school representatives who were able to attend our end of term summer ceilidh at the Catterick Bridge Hotel last Saturday. It was lovely to meet, eat, dance and catch up!

Thank you again to all our teachers and teaching assistants who have worked so hard this year. We hope you have a relaxing summer and look forward to catching up with you all in the new academic year.


We are urgently looking to recruit teachers to fill immediately available ad-hoc placements aswell as long and short-term placements. We will pay you 25 pounds for each teacher you refer to us (and we recruit). We are particularly interested in hearing from teachers in the Ripon, Harrogate and Leeds area.


We marked the 7th Birthday of Principal Teachers with afternoon tea (and lots of cake!) last Friday. We really enjoyed seeing all our teachers and school colleagues - thank you for your help over the last 7 years!


www.principalteachers.co.uk has just got even better! You can now login to view your diary, update your contact details and adjust your availability whenever you like! This exciting new feature of the website is also available for schools... call us on 01748 831919 for more information.


In November 2006 we were awarded the DfES Quality Mark for our recruitment and supply teaching practices. It provides complete peace of mind to schools that we work in an ethical, professional manner that is focussed on the safe recruitment of teachers for your school. You can be confident that the teachers we provide will always be of the highest calibre, fully checked and ready to provide an excellent standard of teaching in your school.

In November 2006 we were awarded the DfES Quality Mark for our recruitment and supply teaching practices. It provides complete peace of mind to schools that we work in an ethical, professional manner that is focussed on the safe recruitment of teachers for your school.

You can be confident that the teachers we provide will always be of the highest calibre, fully checked and ready to provide an excellent standard of teaching in your school.


Thank you to everyone who came to our Summer Party in July. It was a lovely evening and we really enjoyed celebrating the end of year with you all. We were also delighted to see so many photographs in the Darlington and Stockton Times' Social and Personal section ... we hope to add a few more photos to the website in the near future.


We are celebrating The Department for Children, Schools and families' decision to renew our Quality Mark! This Quality Mark acknowledges our stringent recruitment procedure and is only awarded to agencies that go over and above the required checks. We are the first agency based in North Yorkshire to get 100% in every audit!


A very big thank you to all those children and schools who entered our Art competition. It has been like Santa's workshop here in our office, with sackfuls of entries arriving daily. Ben Hall is very excited about starting the judging process, look out for ebulletins in early January for further updates. In the meantime, we will be uploading a page so you can preview all the entries, perhaps you can spot the potential winner?...

A very big thank you to all those children and schools who entered our Art competition. It has been like Santa's workshop here in our office, with sackfuls of entries arriving daily.

Ben Hall is very excited about starting the judging process, look out for ebulletins in early January for further updates.

In the meantime, we will be uploading a page so you can preview all the entries, perhaps you can spot the potential winner?...


We are very excited to announce that judging of our cartoon competition has now taken place and we have three amazing winners and five fantastic runners up. These can now be viewed online here. Each of the winners will receive a brilliant webcam which are made from natural raw materials with easily recyclable bodies and are produced in a fair trade environment. Plus the school of the winning entries will receive a cartoon workshop where a professional animator (Ben Hall) will bring the winning entry to life. If you are not a winning school and would like to book a cartoon workshop, please see our specialist day information for further details.

We are very excited to announce that judging of our cartoon competition has now taken place and we have three amazing winners and five fantastic runners up. These can now be viewed online here.

Each of the winners will receive a brilliant webcam which are made from natural raw materials with easily recyclable bodies and are produced in a fair trade environment. Plus the school of the winning entries will receive a cartoon workshop where a professional animator (Ben Hall) will bring the winning entry to life. If you are not a winning school and would like to book a cartoon workshop, please see our specialist day information for further details.


We are very excited to announce the opening of our new office in the York Eco Business Centre on Clifton Moor. Thank you to all those who attended our recent open day in our new home. If you couldn't make it and would like further details of our services, please telephone 01904 693587.


We are so excited to be able to unveil the final results of our cartoon competition. The winners were chosen from over 1000 entries and have now been made into a professional show reel. Please click here to see the winning entries come to life. All winning entries won a fantastic webcam and an animation workshop for their school. Well done to all those who took part!


We are very excited to announce our new competition. We are appealing to children from primary and secondary schools across the region to write the words to a song. We will arrange for a professional songwriter to work with children from the winning school and record the song which will be sold in aid of school funds. If you would like an application form for the competition, please contact us.


We would like to wish a Happy New Year to all of our school and teachers. We are looking forward to working with you in 2010. Currently we have now received all the entries for our recent 'XY Factor' competition and the judging is taking place shortly. Winners will be announced within the next few weeks.


Megan Cordelle (from Applegarth School) beat hundreds of other entries in our XY Factor competition with her anti-bullying song 'its another day'. Megan and some of her fellow pupils at Applegarth have now successfully recorded the final version of her anti-bullying song, copies of which can be obtained from Principal Teachers and Applegarth School. Megan's story has also been publicised on several local news channels. Well done again to Megan.

Megan Cordelle (from Applegarth School) beat hundreds of other entries in our XY Factor competition with her anti-bullying song 'its another day'.

Megan and some of her fellow pupils at Applegarth have now successfully recorded the final version of her anti-bullying song, copies of which can be obtained from Principal Teachers and Applegarth School. Megan's story has also been publicised on several local news channels. Well done again to Megan.


This year instead of sending Christmas cards and gifts to our schools and teachers, we have made a substantial donation to Oxfam who are building a library behalf of Principal Teachers in Afghanistan. The money donated will not only build the library but also train staff to run it and help children to make the most of it by filling it with books and set them up with computers...basically, everything that helps to make a library fine (so to speak).

This year instead of sending Christmas cards and gifts to our schools and teachers, we have made a substantial donation to Oxfam who are building a library behalf of Principal Teachers in Afghanistan.

The money donated will not only build the library but also train staff to run it and help children to make the most of it by filling it with books and set them up with computers...basically, everything that helps to make a library fine (so to speak).


PT celebrates its 9th birthday this month. We are now in our 10th year of trading and are moving onwards and upwards, continuing to be the leading provider of teacher supply in North Yorkshire. The York office is gathering momentum and here at PT Headquarters we are extremely busy.


To celebrate the end of the term and to say thank you to all our loyal teachers and schools, we are holding a ceilidh at Catterick Bridge hotel on 17th July. If you and a guest would like to join us for some great fun, a hog roast and a couple of drinks, please email us to add you name to the list.

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