Cromwell Community College Mathematics (39K8)

Postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) with qualified teacher status (QTS)

• Accredited body: University of Bedfordshire
• Financial support: Scholarships or bursaries, as well as student finance, are available if you’re eligible
• Qualification:
  PGCE with QTS

  A postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) with qualified teacher status (QTS) will allow you to teach in state schools in England and may 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.

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

• Age range: 11 to 18 - secondary
• Course length: 1 year - full time
• Date you can apply from: 11 October 2022
• Date course starts: September 2023
• Website: http://www.cromwellcc.org.uk

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Course summary

Completion of this course will provide you with a PGCE and Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).

This course provides you with placements in two schools.

One day a week will be spent at The University of Bedfordshire in Bedford where you will complete your professional studies.

You will have a mentor in school and a mentor at university.

School placements

Your first two weeks are spent on the University campus.

Thereafter, most of your training weeks involve 4 days a week in your placement school teaching, planning and observing and one day a week at university in Bedford to access their professional studies programme.

Secondary candidates will need to organise their own primary placement experience school as part of this course.

This course is an A-B-A model.

Locations

You can select one of the following locations to indicate a preferred placement when you apply.

Location	Vacancies
Abbey College Abbey Road, Ramsey, Cambs, PE26 1DG	Yes
Littleport & East Cambs Academy Camel Road, Littleport, Cambs, CB6 1EW	No
Main Site (Cromwell Community College) Wenny Road, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, PE16 6UU	Yes
Neale Wade Academy Wimblington Road, March, Cambs, PE15 9PX	Yes
Sir Harry Smith Eastrea Road, Whittlesey, Cambs, PE7 1XB	No

Entry requirements

Qualifications needed

An undergraduate degree, or equivalent.

Your degree subject should be in mathematics or a similar subject. Otherwise you’ll need to prove your subject knowledge in some other way.

Grade 4 (C) or above in English and maths, or equivalent qualification.

We will not consider candidates with pending GCSEs.

We will not consider candidates who need to take a GCSE equivalency test.

Personal qualities

You will need to be prepared to work hard and be flexible and resilient.

Other requirements

You will need to complete a DBS check and will need to be in good general health.

This course requires a commitment to travel to Bedford.

Fees and financial support

The course fees for UK students in 2023 to 2024 are £9,250.

About the training provider

Cromwell Community College has decades of experience in teacher training. We are a Lead School at the heart of our community. We offer a unique teacher training course which will help you realise your potential as a secondary school teacher.

Teaching is a vibrant, fast-paced and exciting career and we’d love you to train with us here at Cromwell. We have a friendly, experienced team who work with our trainees at the very start of their journey in order to ensure that our trainees get the very best teacher training around. When you make your application to train to teach through us we’ll make sure you learn with us and our partner schools in the local area.

We have a dedicated and well-equipped training room specifically reserved for our trainee teachers. This provides you with a quiet and secure base where you can work, meet to exchange ideas and experiences with others or simply make a coffee and have a biscuit.

In addition to providing the highest standards and quality of training, Cromwell also provides all trainees with a laptop and a dedicated continuing professional development library. In addition to the Professional Studies course provided by our partners at the University of Bedfordshire, Cromwell delivers bespoke in house training from an experienced team of teachers and leaders. This rigorous and energising teacher training programme has helped us to achieve 100% employment for all Cromwell trainees in recent years.

For more information, reach out to us and we’ll be in touch.

Interview process

You will interview twice.

Once with The University of Bedfordshire and again on a separate occasion with the Professional Tutor at Cromwell Community College.

The University of Bedfordshire will provide details about their interview process once shortlisted.

For your interview at Cromwell you will be asked to complete the following tasks:

• Share your views about why you’d like to be a teacher as a written task.
• Complete a face to face interview with a panel.
• Complete a classroom based exercise, where you will be observed interacting with children or young people or teaching a portion of a lesson.

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

We support applications from learners with a range of backgrounds and needs, including:

• dyslexia
• physical, hearing and visual impairments
• mental health conditions

Please reach out to us if you have any questions and we’ll be happy to help.

Contact this training provider

• Email: lwilliams@cromwell.cambs.sch.uk
• Telephone: 01354 697495
• Website: http://www.cromwellcc.org.uk
• Address: Cromwell Community College; Wenny Road; Chatteris; Cambridgeshire; PE16 6UU

Support and advice

You can speak to a teacher training adviser for free, dedicated advice. They are all experienced teachers who can give you one-to-one support with your application. They can also help you get school experience, and find events where you can speak to training providers and teachers.

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).

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