Introduction

Welcome to London West Alliance Initial Teacher Training (LWA ITT). We are a secondary teacher training provider with 20 years of experience training outstanding practitioners in the south west London area. We pride ourselves on creating an ethos of community-led improvement by developing excellent teachers and putting them into our thriving partnership of exceptional schools.

Whether you are a university graduate considering a career in teaching or someone already in the world of work looking for a change in career, we look forward to supporting you with your application and working with you on your journey to becoming a member of the teaching profession. 

We offer two school based initial teacher training routes in partnership with Roehampton University:

• Salaried school based training
• Tuition fee school based training

These school based training routes consist of 4 days a week immersing yourself into school life, learning and developing your practice in your placement school setting, and 1 day a week utilising the excellent pedagogical provision at Roehampton University. To find out more about what our course is like, as well as reading testimonials from current and past trainees, please visit our Routes page.

Subjects available 2025/26

11-16 with KS5 experience: Art, Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Design & Technology, Drama, English, Geography, Maths, History, Modern Foreign Languages, Music, Physics, Physical Education, and Religious Studies.
14-19: Dance, Economics and Business Studies, Psychology, Social Sciences.

To find out more about our routes into teaching and the requirements for salaried and tuition fee based training, please visit our Routes page.