Alliance for Learning SCITT Primary (3-7) (G844)

PGCE with QTS full time

• Financial support: Student finance 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.

• Course length: 1 year
• Date you can apply from: 13 October 2020
• Date course starts: September 2021
• Website: http://allianceforlearning.co.uk/

Contents

About the course

This course is designed to enable you to become a successful teacher of early years pupils aged 3 – 7 (nursery, reception and Key Stage 1).

Over 12 days of the course will be spent in schools working alongside highly professional and well qualified colleagues. Specific subject knowledge training will enable you to build up a strong knowledge of the full curriculum for EYFS and key stage 1.

Trainee timetables progressive in design. However, trainees are supported at all times to ensure a balance between challenge and support is met.

Progress is monitored by subject mentors and SCITT moderation will take place throughout the year. Trainees reflect on progress on a weekly basis, culminating in termly written reports produced jointly with mentors.

Throughout the course, trainees engage with professional development training, this training takes an evidence-informed approach to teaching and learning. Whilst the majority of training takes place at Altrincham Grammar School for Girls, some training will take place in partner schools across Greater Manchester and Lancashire.

Applicants enrolled on the PGCE programme are expected to complete four written assignments leading to 60 M level credits.

“The high quality face-to-face training, assignments and placements combine to give trainees a firm basis on which to develop their skills and knowledge” Ofsted 2017

“Employers of trainees comment very favourably on the significant improvements in trainees’ expertise and knowledge, brought about by their training” Ofsted 2017

School placements

This course leads to qualified teacher status (3-7 years).

All trainees will undertake a short nursery placement, as well as undertaking a reception and key stage 1 placement. The timing for each placement is bespoke for each trainee.

Placement schools are chosen through a number of factors, including trainee prior experience, training needs and location

Professional development sessions are timetable and often take place on a Thursday or a Friday.

Interview process

Following an application that meets our criteria, the SCITT will arrange an interview. Interviews could be in person within a partner setting, or via an on-line platform.

The interview: you will asked to prepare and or complete:

• A short lesson planning activity, which you will talk through/ teach lasting around 15 minutes
• An formal interview with staff from the SCITT
• A written communication task

You might also be asked to complete a subject knowledge audit.

Fees

The course fees for 2021 to 2022 are as follows:

UK students	£9,250
International students	£9,250

Financial support

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

A UK degree of classification 2.2 or higher (we may consider experienced applicants with a 3rd class degree for a QTS only programme).

There is no specific approved subject list.

At least 3 GCSEs grade A*-C (4 or better) with GCSE grade C or above in English, mathematics and science (or equivalent qualifications)

Personal qualities

• A passion for the subject you wish to teach
• The potential to train to teach
• Excellent subject knowledge
• Resilience
• Enthusiasm

Other requirements

All applicants must undergo a suitability to teach check: this includes a disclosure and barring service check and a fitness to teach check.

About the training provider

The Alliance for Learning Teaching School is a partnership of primary and secondary schools, colleges, universities and organisations from across the North-West, who share their knowledge, skills, expertise and experience to achieve a common goal of continuous educational improvement.

The Alliance for Learning SCITT aims to promote excellence in all aspects of education through focused, central and school-based training activities. Trainees are based in our partner schools for the duration of the programme.

We believe that every child deserves the very best start in life, irrespective of background or circumstance. We are committed to training teachers who can provide the next generation with the opportunity to develop happy and successful futures.

Trainees who complete our programme are “regarded as an asset by employment schools because they are well prepared to begin their career in teaching” (Ofsted 2017). On average 95% of trainees gain employment at the end of the programme and are able to make a difference to young people in schools across the country.

Key elements of our training programme

• Training in school from the first day
• Two contrasting schools experiences to prepare you for employment
• A trained, dedicated mentor
• Face to face subject knowledge training
• Leads to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
• Post Graduate Certificate of Education delivered by our partner, the University of Manchester

Find out more about the Alliance for Learning SCITT

Training with disabilities and other needs

It is the goal of the Alliance for Learning SCITT to recruit people of outstanding potential, irrespective of their background and to ensure that the admission process is transparent, has minimal barriers to entry, is based on merit and potential, is fair with regards to diversity.

The Alliance for Learning SCITT will not discriminate against a disabled person on the grounds of disability -

• in the arrangements i.e. application form, interview or arrangements for selection for determining to whom a place should be offered; or
• by refusing to offer, or deliberately not offering the disabled person a place for reasons connected with their disability.

Wherever possible, The Alliance for Learning SCITT will make reasonable adjustments to hallways, passages and doors in order to provide and improve means of access for disabled candidates. However, this may not always be feasible, if circumstances render such adjustments as being beyond what is reasonable.

We are committed to taking positive action to welcome people with disabilities who have met the requirements, and to enable them to meet their full potential

Consideration will be given to all planned activities, resource allocation and procedures to ensure that we can enable disabled trainees full participation in all aspects of the academic, work-based and social activities of the course.

Read our Equal Opportunities Policy

Contact details

• Email: admin@allianceforlearning.co.uk
• Telephone: 0161 912 5912
• Website: http://allianceforlearning.co.uk/
• Address: c/o AGGS; Cavendish Road; Bowdon; Altrincham; WA14 2NL

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Choose a training location

You’ll also need to choose a training location – select the relevant location name on the application form.

Location	Vacancies	Code
Main Site The Alliance for Learning, Cavendish Road, Bowdon, Altrincham, WA14 2NL	Yes	-

Support and advice

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