The Sheffield SCITT
Primary with Mathematics (2XR8)

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: https://www.sheffieldscitt.org.uk/information-and-events/

Contents

About the course

The Sheffield SCITT is committed to providing quality first teacher training. We continually develop and review our programme of study to make it current and relevant.

This course will entail 4 days in school. During time in school you will be guided by an experienced mentor. One day per week you will join other teacher trainees. You will receive high quality training on all aspects of the Teacher Standards including: teacher presence and behaviour management, planning and teaching effective lessons, and how to really stretch and challenge students.

There are three formally assessed teaching practices throughout the year. You will begin, and spend the majority of the year, in your ‘Home School’ and there will be the opportunity to complete one teaching practice in a contrasting primary school, in an alternate Key Stage.

We are a QTS provider but we also offer a PGCE through the University of Hull. If you study for QTS plus PGCE - you will also spend approx. 3 days over the year with your tutors from the University of Hull.

Interview process

The interview process for the SCITT involves a formal interview, questions from a subject specialist and a 15 minute teaching activity. We also ask you to sit mock numeracy and literacy papers to help us identify if you will need support to pass your skills tests. We also ask you to reflect on your teaching activity.

How school placements work

You will spend most of the training year in your Home School and these schools are central to the selection process and our school based interview system. You can express a preference for your Home School based on location, preference for the type of school or a personal connection to a community you want to serve but we cannot guarantee to meet everyone’s preference.

There is also a short alternative placement in a contrasting alliance school in the middle of the training year and a brief experience in the phase (primary or secondary) you are not training to teach in. It would be sensible for trainees to base themselves within commutable distance of their Home School so these are finalised with you before the summer holidays to allow you to arrange your accommodation. We make every attempt to make sure the alternative placement school is in an accessible location but it may involve a few weeks of travelling further to get that all important contrasting experience in the right school for you.

Fees

The course fees for UK students in 2021 to 2022 are £9,250

There are Student Loans available to pay the fees.

If you decide to pay privately then the payment schedule is

• Term 1 : £2,625
• Term 2 : £2,625
• Term 3 : £4,000

With each amount being due on the first day of each term.

You will have to pay the cost of the Enhanced Criminal Record Check in advance of starting the course.

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.

Financial support from the training provider

We are not able to offer any monetary financial support to trainees. However,

• We will support you with the Student Finance Application process.
• We will keep you informed as to whether you are eligible for a government funded Train to Teach Bursary.
• We will also make you aware of any national scholarships that may be available for the subject you are training to teach.
• We also provide free membership of the Westfield Healthy Extras emotional wellness support package to support you during your ITT year.

Requirements

Qualifications

In order to be considered for the Sheffield SCITT. You would need

• A relevant degree - if you do not have a relevant degree you will need to have an A level in the subject you want to teach.
• GCSE grade C or 4 in Maths, English and Science.
• If your qualifications are from overseas you will have to provide a NARIC certificate of comparability to UK qualifications.

If you have any questions about qualifications – please contact [admin@sheffieldscitt.org.uk] and we can offer support.

Personal qualities

We are looking for the next generation of outstanding teachers and future school leaders. They will be passionate about children and education but also care about our schools and the communities they serve and the special ethos each of those schools have.

They will have experience of working with young people - ideally some of this will be school based giving them a good awareness of how schools operate and teachers work. Whatever their experience our applicants need to demonstrate how they have engaged, communicated with and inspired the young people they have worked with.

Other requirements

You will need to pass an Enhanced Criminal Record Check. Ideally you will have some experience working with children in a school or another organisation e.g. nursery, playgroups, scouts etc. As we are not allowed to hold a licence to sponsor visa applications you will need to be a UK citizen. Citizen’s of the European Economic Area or Switzerland will need to check their residency status at the time of application. You will be asked to provide official confirmation of your residency status on application.

About the training provider

The Sheffield SCITT is owned and run by Notre Dame High School, Sheffield. Notre Dame has been judged ‘Outstanding in all areas’ by OFSTED and The Sheffield SCITT was recently judged ‘Good’ by OFSTED for the quality of its teacher training. Our partnership schools all see The Sheffield SCITT as the best way to find and develop their own future teachers. The Sheffield SCITT aims to supply most of the Newly Qualified Teacher needs of our partnership of schools. Whilst we cannot guarantee jobs for all trainees at the end of the course, the vast majority of trainees secure jobs within our partnership. We remain small enough to know every trainee as an individual and give every partner school a voice in the running of the SCITT, but large enough to offer our trainees a diverse and bespoke experience of a different schools within the partnership - including Academies, Maintained Community Schools, Church Schools, those in multicultural inner cities, secondary schools with large sixth forms and primary schools with early years centres. Our course includes the opportunity to study for a PGCE in Secondary Education (PGCSE) during your ITT year. The PGCE is offered through The University of Hull.

Training with disabilities and other needs

Our aim is to meet the unique needs of every trainee, specifically by taking reasonable steps to ensure that disabled trainees and applicants are not put at a substantial disadvantage by comparison with trainees and applicants who are not disabled.

We cannot do this unless we know you have a disability. We encourage all our applicants to discuss their requirements with us at interview. While disabled access to our schools is good we can only place trainees at the most suitable school to meet their needs if we know what those needs are.

In addition to one to one support from your mentors and subject leaders we currently offer all our trainees access to free basic membership of the Westfield Health Foresight scheme which provides various benefits. The Sheffield SCITT has a ‘Reasonable Adjustments Policy and Procedure’ which underpins this approach and is available on request by emailing admin@sheffieldscitt.org.uk

Contact details

• Email: admin@sheffieldscitt.org.uk
• Telephone: 01142302536
• Website: https://www.sheffieldscitt.org.uk/information-and-events/
• Address: Notre Dame High School; Fulwood Road; Sheffield; South Yorkshire; S10 3BT

Apply

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
Dobcroft Infant School Pingle Rd, Sheffield, S7 2LN	Yes	F
Highgate Primary Academy Nicholas Lane, Goldthorpe, Rotherham, S63 9AS	Yes	W
Hunters Bar Infant School Sharrow Vale Rd, Sheffield, S11 8ZG	Yes	E
Mundella Primary School Mundella Place, Sheffield, S8 8SJ	Yes	3
Our Lady and St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School Fitzwilliam St, Rotherham, S63 7HG	Yes	T
Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Voluntary Academy Mere Street, Armthorpe, Doncaster, South Yorkshire , DN3 2DB	Yes	9
St Ann’s Catholic Primary School McIntyre Road, Stocksbridge, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S36 1DE	Yes	8
St Catherine’s Catholic Primary School Firshill Crescent, Sheffield, S4 7BX	Yes	A
St Joseph’s Catholic Primary 131 Green Lane, Rawmarsh, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S62 6JY	Yes	0
St Marie’s Catholic Primary School Fulwood Rd, Sheffield, S10 3DQ	Yes	B
St Mary’s Primary School, High Green Pack Horse La, Sheffield, S35 3HY	Yes	U
St Patrick’s Catholic Voluntary Academy Barnsley Road, Sheffield, S5 0QF	Yes	2
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School Creswick Lane, Grenoside, Sheffield, S35 8NN	Yes	J

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