Salaried Primary QTS 2PY5 Key Stage 1/Key Stage 2
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West London Teaching School Alliance (Primary) SCHOOL DIRECT TEACHER TRAINING 2017-18 UCAS Provider Code 1EL in partnership with UCAS Programme information for Course Code Salaried Primary QTS 2PY5 Key Stage 1/Key Stage 2 This programme is available at Barnes Primary School Colville Primary School Park Community School Park Walk Primary School Pield Heath House School (SEN) Queensmill School (SEN) St John XXIII Catholic Primary School Important Note: This is one of four WLTSA salaried primary programmes. We are aiming to recruit up to 14 trainees on this particular programme (2PY5) but WLTSA as a whole is permitted to recruit 13 salaried primary trainees across all four programmes. As soon as 13 offers have been made we will need to close recruitment for salaried primary whether or not this particular programme is full. At that time we will request more places from government but these are not guaranteed. Early application is therefore advised. Updates on our website will show the tally of offers at any one time. School Direct Training Programme - Salaried Contents Page 1 Why Train with Us? 2 1.1 Introduction 2 1.2 The West London Teaching School Alliance (WLTSA) 2 1.3 WLTSA School Direct Partner Schools & Vacancy Updates 3 1.4 Your Host School 4 1.5 Our University Partner – St Mary’s University, Twickenham 8 2 About this training programme 9 2.1 Introduction 9 2.2 Number of Places Available 9 2.3 Qualification Outcome –QTS Explained 10 2.4 Training 11 2.5 Salary 12 3 Entry Requirements 12 3.1 Academic Requirements 12 3.2 Work Experience 12 3.3 School Experience 13 3.4 Professional Skills Tests 13 3.5 Medical Fitness 13 3.6 DBS/Prohibition Checks 13 4 What we are looking for 13 4.1 Personal Requirements 13 5 How we select our trainees 15 5.1 Selection 15 5.2 Interviews 15 5.3 Rejections following interview 15 5.4 Offers 16 APPENDIX 1: ABOUT THE WLTSA This includes general information including our UCAS provider code; information about our partner universities and partner schools; childcare facilities; accommodation, disability access and where to find us. West London Teaching School Alliance September 2016 School Direct Training Programme - Salaried 1 Why Train with Us? 1.1 Introduction In considering why to train with us, it is important to understand the strengths of: The West London Teaching School Alliance; the host school where you would be located for the majority of your training; and our university partner for this programme. 1.2 The West London Teaching School Alliance (WLTSA) The West London Teaching School Alliance (WLTSA) is coordinated through Sacred Heart High School in Hammersmith, which is designated as a National Teaching School. The WLTSA covers both the primary and secondary sectors with a wide variety of partner schools including those in the mainstream across the 5-19 age range, as well as Faith Schools, Free Schools and Special Schools. We are an innovative and growing partnership, now expanding beyond our original focussed area of central West London, with member schools in the London Boroughs of Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster; Richmond; Ealing, Hillingdon and Merton. For 2017-8, we are seeking to fill 89 School Direct places across 45 of our schools and we are working with three different university providers to achieve this (St Mary’s University, Twickenham; University of Roehampton; and UCL (Institute of Education). Training with WLTSA schools gives you the unique opportunity to experience a broad range of teaching environments, with all our schools aiming to provide the highest quality teaching and learning for their pupils and the trainees they are developing. Our partnered schools all offer you the opportunity to train to teach with excellent, experienced teachers in dynamic learning environments that foster talent. Within WLTSA there are extensive opportunities for future professional leadership development including an excellent Masters Programme with St Mary’s. WLTSA has a commitment to achieving excellence in learning, teaching and school leadership. We aim to appoint the highest calibre of teachers in our schools: who are innovative in the teaching practices they adopt; seek to collaborate and support each other through strong partnerships; and engage in the intelligent use of research and development of pedagogy. Page 2 West London Teaching School Alliance September 2016 School Direct Training Programme - Salaried We continue to stay abreast of national and international educational research to inform our approach. We aim to inspire our teachers to be advocates of life- long learning who become outstanding practitioners, colleagues, managers and leaders in our schools, equipped to adapt to the needs of learners and schools of the future. We aim to provide a clear framework for career development to ensure high quality, relevant training to meet the needs of teaching staff at different stages of their careers, from career entry to headship in its increasingly various forms OUR VISION: A bright future for all learners through innovation, collaboration, engagement and success. 1.3 WLTSA School Direct Partner Schools & Vacancy Updates A full list of all our 45 School Direct Partner schools (with web-links and postcodes) is set out in Appendix 1. Each of our School Direct partner schools has requested to run a specific programme (or programmes) and you can see a full list of the programmes available at each of the 45 schools in the initial teacher training tab on our website wltsa.org.uk. These lists are regularly updated to show recruitment progress. Sometimes several of our schools wish to run the same programme and when you apply you will be able to select which specific school you wish to be considered by. Programmes remain ‘open’ on UCAS until places have been accepted by trainees. Sometimes we receive applications: when shortlisting at a specific school has already taken place; when interviews at a specific school are already underway; or when offers have already been made but not yet accepted. It is therefore advisable to check the latest status on our website but rest assured that if you apply for one of our programmes at a school that then becomes full we will email you and can transfer your application to another school of your choosing without the need for you to make any further UCAS application. Similarly, if you are interviewed by one of our schools with limited places and they cannot take you on but they consider you to be a worthy candidate, then we have flexibility to transfer your application to another school with the same programme or even to a different programme, subject to your agreement. You can also use our website to compare entry requirements of different programmes partnered with different universities. By clicking on the programme information button in our vacancies tables, you will be able to view the programme document (like this one). The structure of all the programme documents is identical to assist comparison. Page 3 West London Teaching School Alliance September 2016 School Direct Training Programme - Salaried If you have queries, please email us centrally at [email protected] rather than contacting our partner schools. The school (or schools) hosting this particular programme are described below. 1.4 Your Host School When you apply, you will be able select which school you want to be your host (employing) school where the majority of your training will take place. Each of our programmes also includes a much shorter second placement at another WLTSA school which we select during the training, to ensure that it provides a sufficiently contrasting experience. We have six WLTSA schools wishing to employ trainees on this particular salaried programme: Barnes Primary School, SW13 0QQ Old Oak Primary School, W12 0AS Park Community School, SW19 3EF Park Walk Primary School, SW10 0AY Pield Heath House School, UB8 3NW Queensmill School (SEN), W12 0NY See further details on each school below, including web-links to their school websites. Barnes Primary School SW13 OQQ Peter Mortimore, a distinguished academic and grandparent of a child at Barnes Primary School, captured the school’s ethos well in his book ‘Schools Under Siege’ (Policy Press, 2013) when he wrote: My grandson’s primary school has the motto ‘Learning, Love and Laughter’. This cleverly links the school’s main task – promoting learning – with affection and fun. What better combination could there be. Parents speak very highly of the school as the following selection of comments (2016 parent questionnaire) demonstrates: - we feel nothing but joy, when we see how happy they have been, day in and day out - … so much more than we had expected - . eight years of brilliance and wonder - …our children are in the best possible place they could be - . the best possible start in life - …there is not a day that goes by when I am not grateful that both of my girls are a part of BPS - the positive impact Barnes Primary has on its pupils is impossible to quantify. Page 4 West London Teaching School Alliance September 2016 School Direct Training Programme - Salaried Our school has the very highest of expectations of and for everyone involved in the school community - children, their teachers, their parents and senior leaders are asked to continually expect more. Core values that underpin Barnes Primary School are reflected in the seven personal qualities that their curriculum seeks to develop: Integrity, Self-sufficiency Creativity, Personal Responsibility, Empathy, Self-belief and Positivity. Barnes Primary School is a community of learners (including teacher trainees) where everyone can be successful and strive to continually improve on their personal best. Mark Hartley has been the Headteacher of Barnes for eleven years. Previous to that he worked as a School Improvement Advisor in Kensington and Chelsea.