Are you making use of your degree? Are you driven to shape lives and inspire the next generation? We welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds, including third year under-graduates, career seekers and career changers.

The North Worcestershire Teacher Training Hub work with accredited provider the University of Worcester to provide high quality, school centred teacher training.

Our Hub

South Bromsgrove High School leads the North Worcestershire Teacher Training Hub at Secondary level.

The North Worcestershire Teacher Training Partnership is a relatively small hub where we pride ourselves on offering individualised support for our trainees. We are proud that those who train with us are made to feel fully part of our ‘South’ team. We offer experienced subject and professional mentors who have been involved in the planning and development of the school centred teacher training course. Every trainee is assigned a Professional and Subject Mentor who they meet with regularly, to review and set targets and to support your progress. The school is proud to have gained the Carnegie Mental Health Gold Award and this exemplifies our care and support of all members of our school community.  As a trainee with us you are given a laptop and a dedicated training space to work in, alongside full access to the resources and facilities we offer.

‘South’ is a good school with outstanding features (Ofsted 2023) where students enjoy learning in a way which stimulates their imagination and creativity. We maintain high standards of achievement, offer a broad and relevant curriculum, and place great emphasis on high quality learning experiences supplemented by wide-ranging extra-curricular opportunities. We work alongside partnership schools who are highly committed to the training of teachers in a school-based environment. We are a High School which will enable trainees to access GCSE and A Level teaching alongside Key Stage 3 classes.

Where we are 
South Bromsgrove is located close to the M5 and a short walkfrom Bromsgrove Railway station where there are direct trains to Worcester and the University. Bromsgrove is situated close to a wide number of schools enabling high numbers of job opportunities. 

The Hub is accredited by the University of Worcester. The University has a long-standing reputation for training excellent, highly employable teachers and their training programme was rated as outstanding by OFSTED in 2023. The University has excellent facilities which are all available to our trainees including the Hive library, financial support services, the student union and wellbeing support.

Personalised academic and professional tutoring, from a range of experienced tutors and mentors, ensures that you will be supported throughout your course and in transition from trainee to an early career teacher. Additional enhancement activities and specialisms are offered in SEND, teenage mental health, PSHE and Citizenship, careers, technology enhanced learning and education in climate emergency are also offered by the University.  

Find out more about our partnership with the University of Worcester here: https://www.worcester.ac.uk/courses/pgce-secondary

If you are interested in training to teach in a Primary school, you can findout more by visiting the St John's website: St John's C of E Middle School Academy - Primary Teacher Training (st-johns-bromsgrove.worcs.sch.uk) You can also email Sarah Marsh who leads ITT provision for our Primary Partnership on primary@nwtthub.co.uk .

All teacher training programmes run from September to June and incorporate two school placements along with a comprehensive professional studies programme created in collaboration with the University of Worcester. As a Hub trainee this programme is delivered in school by serving, experienced teachers.

To apply for Initial Teacher Training for September 2025, please visit the DfE Apply pages using the link below. Courses can be viewed and applications started from 1^rd October 2024.  Applications can be submitted from 8th October 2024 onwards.

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• Art and Design Secondary (with University of Worcester)
• Biology Secondary (with University of Worcester)
• Business Studies Secondary (with University of Worcester)
• Business and Economics Secondary (with University of Worcester)
• Chemistry Secondary (with University of Worcester)
• Computing (with University of Worcester)
• Design Technology - Food (with University of Worcester)
• Economics Secondary (with University of Worcester)
• English Secondary (with University of Worcester)
• Geography Secondary (with University of Worcester)
• History Secondary (with University of Worcester) 
• Mathematics Secondary (with University of Worcester)
• Modern Languages: French with Spanish / French (with University of Worcester) 
• Physical Education (with University of Worcester)
• Physics Secondary (with University of Worcester)
• Religious Studies (with University of Worcester) 

Haybridge Alliance SCITT

We also offer three school centred courses with Haybridge Alliance SCITT. For these courses QTS is awarded by Haybridge and the PGCE is awarded by Bath Spa University upon successful completion of 2 assignments. Trainees will spend a minimum of 180 days in school, working towards the award of QTS. Trainees will also benefit from the Central Education Programme Pedagogy sessions that are led by specialist teachers and professionals at Haybridge.

• Art and Design Secondary (with Haybridge SCITT)
• Design Technology Secondary(with Haybridge SCITT)
• Music (with Haybridge SCITT)

What do applicants need?

An honours degree normally (2:2) or higher from a United Kingdom higher education institution or equivalent qualification, in a relevant subject area.

All entrants are required to have achieved a standard equivalent to a grade 4 (formerly grade C) in the GCSE examinations in English Language or English Literature, Mathematics and Science (applicants must have these qualifications by the start of the course). Alternatively, we offer an equivalency test if you don’t have the required GCSE grade to apply for our courses.

Qualifications

These school centred training routes allow you to achieve QTS and a PGCE qualification as well as credits towards Masters Accreditation. There will be opportunities to complete the Masters following your training year.

Bursaries and scholarships are available for some subjects. Visit Funding: initial teacher training (ITT), academic year 2024 to 2025 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) for further details.