The course fees for UK students in 2022 to 2023 are £8,250.
Services for Education Primary (H047)
QTS full time
- Financial support
- Student finance if you’re eligible
- Qualification
-
QTS
Qualified teacher status (QTS) allows you to teach in state schools in England and may also allow you to teach in other parts of the UK.
It may also allow you to teach overseas, though you should always check what qualifications are needed in the country you’d like to teach in.
- Age range
- 5 to 11
- Course length
- 1 year
- Date you can apply from
- 12 October 2021
- Date course starts
- September 2022
- Website
- https://www.servicesforeducation.co.uk/scitt/?utm_source=gov&utm_medium=2021&utm_campaign=scitt
Apply
Courses are currently closed but you can still start or continue an application anyway.
You’ll be able to:
- find courses starting in the 2023 to 2024 academic year from 9am on 4 October 2022
- submit your application from 9am on 11 October 2022
Contents
- Course summary
- School placements
- Entry requirements
- About the training provider
- Fees and financial support
- Interview process
- International candidates
- Training with disabilities and other needs
- Contact this training provider
- Support and advice
Course summary
Services for Education Primary SCITT (ages 5-11) is a one year, full-time course which trains just a small number of trainees each year - meaning your experience is bespoke and personalised.
Our centre-based training sessions are delivered by experienced teachers and advisors - throughout the course, theory and practice are closely linked.
Trainees spend approximately 120 days in schools, putting the theory they have learned in centre-based training into practice. Trainees will experience at least two different schools, and are carefully matched with their placement schools to ensure their individual needs are met.
School placements
How school placements work
Services for Education Primary SCITT provides you with all of your placements, within our partner schools, enabling you, the trainee, to concentrate fully on achieving your QTS. Aside from the time you spend at your ‘home’ school, you will also spend 6 weeks at a contrasting partnership Primary school, in order to gain valuable experience.
At the beginning of the course you are allocated a Professional Tutor who will introduce you to school life and help you work your way through the teachers standards, allowing you to develop your lesson planning, teaching and evaluation and actively participating in classroom teaching working towards 80% teaching time in your final placement.
Entry requirements
Qualifications needed
An undergraduate degree, or equivalent.
Grade 4 (C) or above in English, maths and science, or equivalent qualification.
We’ll consider candidates with pending GCSEs.
We’ll consider candidates who need to take a GCSE equivalency test in English, maths or science.
Personal qualities
Teaching is a demanding but fulfilling profession. To succeed in it you need to possess and/or develop a number of key values, dispositions, skills and aptitudes. You must: -Have strong subject knowledge and understanding; -Have enthusiasm for teaching and a commitment to the educational process; -Be able to communicate sensitively and effectively with others and work constructively with them; -Have the will and capacity to engage in critical self-evaluation, learn from and with others, and engage in continuous professional development.
Other requirements
Statutory guidance requires that teacher training providers ensure that entrants on all routes have been subject to DBS criminal records checks. Applicants offered a place will need to complete a DBS application prior to commencement of the programme. Successful applicants will be asked to confirm in writing that neither they nor, as far as they are aware, members of their household are disqualified from teaching. Successful applicants will be required to complete a health questionnaire designed to ensure that trainees have the health and physical capacity to teach and will not put children and young people at risk of harm.
Fees and financial support
If you are from the UK, you should be eligible for a student loan to cover the cost of tuition fees, available through Student Finance England.
About the training provider
“SFE leaders and partnership schools share an ambition for excellence and demonstrate high levels of commitment and dedication to ensuring that trainees are thoroughly prepared for their careers in teaching.” Ofsted (2018)
Services For Education is an accredited provider of initial teacher training (ITT) working with a partnership of primary schools across the West Midlands providing high-quality Primary teacher training, leading to qualified teacher status (QTS).
Fees are set at £7500 for the 12 month training period.
Our programme was judged as ‘Good’ in our 2018 Ofsted inspection, with inspectors commenting: ‘The partnership ensures that trainees are superbly prepared for their careers in teaching’.
Interview process
We make our decisions to offer a place based on your enthusiasm, aptitude and commitment to teaching as demonstrated by your application form, qualifications, reference and performance at the interview.
Your Personal Statement forms a key part of the initial selection process. This not only provides you with an opportunity to evidence your ability to communicate clearly and accurately in writing, but also is where you can draw attention to those personal skills and qualities which you believe make you suitable for working within the Primary phase.
Successful applicants will initially be invited to attend an interview session with us at Services for Education. During the interview process candidates will receive further information about the course. Candidates will also be required to undertake a series of short tasks and a formal interview.
Whilst ensuring that we can provide the conditions and training required, trainees must be prepared to demonstrate their own suitability for an offer of a place. The SCITT has thorough and rigorous selection procedures to ensure that the strongest applicants are offered places on the programme. Applicants must demonstrate a potential to train as a primary teacher.
Any offer is conditional upon receipt of a satisfactory medical report, police clearance and sight of original qualification certificates.
International candidates
You’ll need the right to study in the UK. You already have this if, for example, you:
- are an Irish citizen
- have settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme (you may still be able to apply)
- have indefinite leave to remain in the UK
If you do not already have the right to study in the UK, you may need to apply for a visa. The main visa for fee-paying courses (those that you have to pay for) is the Student visa.
To apply for a Student visa, you’ll need to be sponsored by your training provider.
Sponsorship is not available for this course.
If you need a visa, filter your course search to find courses with visa sponsorship.
Alternatively, check if you’re eligible for a different type of visa, such as a Graduate or Family visa, that allows you to train to be a teacher without being sponsored.
Find out more about training to teach in England.
International qualifications
If your qualifications come from a non-UK institution, we may want to see a ‘statement of comparability’ from UK ENIC. This will show us how they compare to UK qualifications.
You can call Get Into Teaching on 0800 389 2500 for:
- guidance on the UK equivalents of your qualifications
- a free statement of comparability once you’ve submitted your application (if we ask you for this)
Training with disabilities and other needs
It is against the law for teacher training providers to discriminate against you because you’re disabled or have special educational needs. Under the Equality Act 2010, providers must make adjustments to help you do a course or go to an interview, providing your requests are reasonable. If the help you need is not covered by your provider making reasonable adjustments, you may also be able to get support from Access to Work. This could include a grant to help cover the costs of practical support in the workplace.
It’s up to you if you want to tell your school or training provider about your disability. The main advantage of doing this is to let them put support in place.Any information you give about your disability is protected under the Data Protection Act 2018.
If you’re offered a place on a teacher training course, you may have to complete a fitness questionnaire before starting. We ask relevant questions to make sure you’re able to teach.
Contact this training provider
- tricia.bunn@servicesforeducation.co.uk
- Telephone
- 07776599087
- Website
- https://www.servicesforeducation.co.uk/scitt/?utm_source=gov&utm_medium=2021&utm_campaign=scitt
- Address
-
Unit 3 Holt Court
Holt Street
Birmingham
B7 4AX
Support and advice
For support and advice, you can speak to a teacher training adviser for free. They’re all experienced teachers who can help you to prepare your application, book school experience, and access exclusive teaching events.
You can also call Get Into Teaching free of charge on 0800 389 2500, or chat online Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5.30pm (except public holidays).
Find out about the different ways to train if you do not have a degree, or are already an experienced teacher.
If there is something wrong with this course listing, contact us by email.
Apply
Courses are currently closed but you can still start or continue an application anyway.
You’ll be able to:
- find courses starting in the 2023 to 2024 academic year from 9am on 4 October 2022
- submit your application from 9am on 11 October 2022