Whatever your honours degree subject(s), you can change a young person's life.  Come and talk to us about primary teaching, it could be the best choice that you will ever make. UCAS applications are now open for our 2019-20 cohort and we have already begun interviewing. We advise an early application as in previous years we have filled our places. We are delighted to be offering a 2 year flexible route and we have an increased number of schools in Central Staffordshire who are now working with us.
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Assessment Only Route

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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Our Local Research School

We are delighted to be part of The Stoke-on-Trent Research School.   Subscribe to our newsletter, follow us on twitter, visit our website or download our Staffordshire or Stoke on Trent schools courses booklets.

Apply for 2019 Entry

Read our course brochure.   Look out for our innovative Primary Pedagogy and SEND course.  Search for us on UCAS using 24j

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What Makes Us Different?

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. We have a teaching base at Keele University, Seabridge School and from September 2019 we will have a hub in Central Staffordshire.

We Want Our Teachers To Be:

  • 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