North Manchester ITT Partnership
Physics (2SS8)

PGCE with QTS full time

• Financial support: Scholarship, bursary or student finance if you’re eligible
• Qualification:
  PGCE with QTS

  A postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) with qualified teacher status (QTS) allows you to teach in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It’s also recognised internationally.

  Many PGCE courses include credits that count toward a Master’s degree.

• Course length: 1 year
• Date you can apply from: 8 October 2019
• Date course starts: September 2020
• Website: http://www.teachnorthmanchester.com

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About the course

North Manchester ITT Partnership works with mainly 3 Manchester Secondary Schools. Physics provides you with an outstanding teaching and learning experience in KS3 and KS4 across the ability and 11- 16 age range. You will have also experience in KS2, Post 16 and Special Education.

You will have teaching experience in your subject specialism in 2 complementary placements, demonstrating how your curriculum and assessment processes work.

You may also wish to have Mathematics at KS3 on your timetable as part of your training.

We aim to give you 140 days in school.

Interview process

Your interview process will consist of the following:

• usually a morning with North Manchester ITT Partnership
• time for questions and answers
• a tour of North Manchester ITT Partnership
• for 2020 - we will include a literacy and numeracy test
• 20 minute teaching task
• Subject knowledge tasks
• school scenarios
• formal interview

We aim to give you the result of the interview within 24 hours.

How school placements work

We are partnered with 3 main Secondary schools based in Manchester. We also work with associate schools in the North West area.

You will have to complete 2 main teaching placements.

Overall we give you 140 days in school.

Fees

The course fees for 2020 are as follows:

UK students	£9,000
EU students	£9,000

Financial support

You could be eligible for either:

• a scholarship of £28,000
• a bursary of £26,000

With a scholarship or bursary, you’ll also get early career payments of £2,000 in your second, third and fourth years of teaching (£3,000 in some areas of England).

To qualify for a scholarship you’ll need a degree of 2:1 or above in Physics or a related subject. For a bursary you’ll need a 2:2 or above in any subject.

You can’t claim both a bursary and a scholarship - you can only claim one.

Find out how to apply for a scholarship. You don’t need to apply for a bursary - if you’re eligible, you’ll automatically start receiving it once you begin your course. Find out how you’ll be paid.

You may also be eligible for a loan while you study - note that you'll have to apply for undergraduate student finance.

Find out about financial support if you’re from outside the UK.

Requirements

Qualifications

English Language and Mathematics GCSE level 4/grade C equivalent or above.

A level in the specialist subject - minimum grade C

First degree

Subject enhancement may be a requirement.

About the training provider

North Manchester ITT Partnership has been training teachers since 2014. We have achieved "Good" at Ofsted across all areas in December 2017 who commented particularly on our personalised provision and "wrap around care".

North Manchester ITT Partnership achieved 100% retention and over 93% of trainees are now teaching in the Manchester area.

North Manchester ITT Partnership works with three main Manchester High Schools and at present nine Primary Schools.

We offer the following:

• post- 16 enhancement
• alternative provision enhancement
• SEND enhancement
• continued subject knowledge enhancement
• continued Newly Qualified Teacher support and training

Training with disabilities and other needs

Please contact us if you have any queries.

Contact details

• Email: teachertraining@mca.manchester.sch.uk
• Telephone: 0161 202 0161
• Website: http://www.teachnorthmanchester.com
• Address: Parkstead Drive; Harpurhey; Manchester; Greater Manchester; M9 5QN

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Location	Vacancies	Code
Main Site Silchester Drive, Harpurhey, Manchester, M40 8NT	Yes	-

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