The AO route is intended for very experienced graduate teachers without QTS. Applicants will have a wealth of prior teaching experience.

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Read our course brochure.   Look out for our innovative  SEND pathway. We also now have a primary Art and Design specialism.   Search for us on UCAS using 24j

We are a small provider, with a nurturing ethos and an amazing partnership of schools. Our vision ‘Rooted In Evidence, Reaching for Excellence’; underpins our offer of a distinctive combination of subject specialisms rather than a purely generalist training combined with a strong emphasis on high quality school-based input; an expectation to exceed the Teachers’ Standards; a partnership which is made up of primary, special and middle schools and comprises a mixture of large and small, urban and rural, faith schools, local authority and academy settings. Our schools are predominately located in Stoke-on-Trent, and across Staffordshire, not just the north of the county.

• passionate about the transformative power of the primary phase of education
• reflective and resilient
• well-organised and relate well to others
• able to work collaboratively with groups of fellow trainees and schools
• ambitious to be the best teacher they aspire to be
• knowledgeable and inspirational about their specialism
• caring in relation to both caring about rigour and caring about enabling children to thrive