PGCE Primary (Lead Partners)

• 2:1 degree (or above)
• GCSE grade C or above in English Language, Maths and Science.
• A pass in the Professional Skills Tests in Literacy and Numeracy.
• Although not essential, you may find it useful to have recent experience working with children and/or observing teaching in a school setting, ideally relating to the age range/subject you wish to teach. When writing your application you should try to reflect on your experience and tell us what you learnt.
• Please consult our Education at Leicester website to find detailed explanations of our recruitment and selection processes and criteria.

For fees and funding options, please visit website to find out more.

There are a number of possible sources of funding: loans and grants, bursaries and scholarships.

Many Lead Partners students secure their first teaching post within one of their Alliance's schools. We will support you in applying for teaching posts by guiding and supporting you through the whole process including workshops run by head teachers and recruitment specialists. The workshop content includes writing letters of application; interview techniques; teaching sample lessons and one-to-one coaching and mock interviews. We know that this approach is highly successful every year and, and Ofsted noted, 'Former trainees from this provider are highly prized locally and demand often outstrips the number of NQT positions available'.

We foster your continued relationship with Education at Leicester once you become an NQT by supporting your career development in a number of ways, including running a successful NQT Conference each spring.

The PGCE Primary covers the following three taught strands:

• Professional Studies Strand
• Curriculum Strand
• Specialist Studies Strand