Our School Direct Programme

School Direct is a school-led teacher training route, where participating schools recruit and select their own trainees. Brooke Weston Teaching School Alliance is delighted to be working in partnership with University of Leicester and University of Northampton, for our secondary and primary training respectively. Through this partnership, we have harnessed the best and most innovative expertise from Universities and schools within the Alliance to provide a training programme of the highest standards. Almost all of the trainees that we have recruited onto our School Direct programme has secured employment within the Alliance; an indicator for the quality of our programme and of our commitment to providing high exemplary training and support for our trainees.

All of our School Direct places will lead to QTS status and PGCE accreditation.

Across the Teaching School Alliance, we have a wide variety of different schools, enabling trainees to experience a wide range of different contexts, ensuring that all trainees are well prepared for their future career.

And, there’s more

Our Professional Development Programme offers a wide range of training programmes to support you from the initial stages of teacher training through to leadership at every level , providing you with a clear pathway of progression.

We are recruiting for School Direct 2020/2021 We have School Direct accredited with PGCE places available for 2020/21 in the following subject areas: Biology, Chemistry, English, Geography, History, Mathematics, Modern Languages, Physics, RE and Primary General.

School Direct Training Requirements

To apply for this route you must meet the statutory requirements for initial teacher training. For secondary phase training, your degree should be at least 50% in the subject are in which you wish you teach, although in some cases we will also consider degrees that are closely linked e.g. an engineering degree for a science training place.

For more details of the statutory requirements, please visit the following website:

getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/explore-my-options/teacher-training-routes/school-led-training/school-direct

For information about the financial support available, please visit:

education.gov.uk/get-into-teaching/funding/postgraduate-funding

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-itt-bursary-funding-manual/initial-teacher-training-bursaries-funding-manual-2021-to-2022-academic-year