Experience Secondary Education

Are you thinking of a career in teaching? Not yet sure or want to find out more? Are you considering a return to the classroom and would like to update your professional knowledge and skills? 

We can provide school experience by request - please contact us to arrange mutually convenient dates,

Applicants for our SCITT PGCE programme will ideally need to have up to 2 weeks recent and relevant school experience. This can be arranged on an individual basis either before or after applying to the programme and options include:

• Part time on a regular basis, eg. one day per week for several weeks

• Whole weeks

• Experience in different partner schools – academies, maintained schools, single sex schools, selective and non-selective schools make up our partnership 

What people have said…

“It has been superbly informative and insightful”

“It has clarified what being a trainee teacher is like and helped me to get a feel for what would be involved in training to teach, including ideas on teaching techniques”

“Being in a classroom environment has affirmed that teaching is a career path I wish to follow and the workshops and presentations have shown me how to best manage the application process”

Contact us now to request school experience!

E-mail our Teaching School Administrator, Jayne Partington – partingtonj@ripley.lancs.sch.uk