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Melrose Learning Trust is committed to developing and nurturing trainees and supporting teachers as they move through their career. We are dedicated to developing our own teachers from the early stages of their career within a trust that believes in ‘growing together in life in all its fullness’. We are very proud of the fact that Melrose Learning Trust benefits from having a strong team of highly experienced staff with expertise in both Initial Teacher Training and the induction of Early Career Teachers.
We work in partnership with Sunderland University to train the next generation of teachers within a school-based primary setting. Our school-based teacher training is an ideal route to gain the skills and qualifications you need to become a teacher, a one-year programme where you can make a difference from day one.
Trainee teachers are immersed in the school environment from the outset, meaning that you will ‘live and breathe’ real-life teaching from day one. Every trainee is carefully matched to a single class in a ‘host school’ where you work and train for most of the year, becoming a real and valued part of the school team. During the first half of the Spring Term, all trainees are given the opportunity to experience an alternate key stage in a different school, after which you return to your host school for the remainder of the programme.
Every trainee is linked with a trained school-based mentor who will oversee and monitor your development and act as your trainer within school for the year. As a trainee teacher you will work alongside your mentor to develop and support you in learning effective classroom strategies. Your mentor will provide you with high quality feedback and set you training targets to enable you to reflect on your learning and ensure you make progress, providing a truly personalised programme. Over the year, further responsibility and an increased percentage of teaching is gradually passed over to you as you gain in confidence and experience.
Additionally, you will have a university-based mentor who works closely with you and your school mentor. They will give further support and assess your progress towards the Foundational Concepts and finally, by the end of the course, Teachers’ Standards.
For further details regarding the course please follow the link to University of Sunderland below:
PGCE Primary Education with QTS (School Based) | The University of Sunderland
Autumn term
The majority of the autumn term is spent within your host school with weekly attendance at Sunderland University. During this term you will supported to complete classroom-based tasks and begin to deliver lessons in accordance with your personalised targets. By the end of the Autumn term the expectation is that your teaching commitment will gradually build up to approximately 50% of the week.
Spring term
The Spring term begins with an opportunity for you to experience a different school setting within Melrose Learning Trust or one of our partner schools. You will spend 5 weeks developing your classroom practice with pupils in a different key stage and learn from experienced teachers within that school. You will continue to regularly attend Sunderland University. By the end of the term, you will have returned to your host school and will begin your final teaching practice.
Summer term
The Summer term sees the completion of your assessed teaching practice. At this stage, the expectation is that you will demonstrate that you can plan an appropriate sequence of work across the full range of the curriculum. You will build up to teaching 80% of the weekly timetable, including the preparation of teaching resources, engaging marking and feedback activities and fulfilling the main requirements of a classroom teacher. This will prepare you for entry into the profession as a qualified teacher.
Enrichment days are built into our core programme to further enhance your training, equipping you with a broader knowledge, skills and understanding to teach in a wide range of contexts.
To apply for Melrose Learning Trust School Based PGCE please visit the Department for Education Apply website
As a growing trust, we would be open to a discussion with any school or schools interested in joining Melrose Learning Trust.
We believe we have a great deal to offer schools who would like to share in a successful, supportive and collaborative educational organisation.
