The Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship (PgTA) is the current primary salaried route.
Gain Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) whilst receiving a salary as an unqualified teacher.
A potential apprentice will need to be employed in a school which can offer them an apprenticeship programme and a contract of employment. The school and the provider will assess the candidate’s suitability through the recruitment and selection tasks.
Teaching apprentices are required to take responsibility for a whole class up to 3 days a week, depending on the needs of the employing school. Trainees are placed in their employing school for the majority of their training and will complete a 5-week second school placement in the spring term.
The 2Schools Consortium has been successfully involved in teacher training for more than 20 years and has a wealth of experience in mentoring trainees and in delivering high-quality teacher training.
Oakthorpe Primary School operating as 2Schools Consortium (2Sc) provides the Postgraduate Teacher Apprenticeship Level 6 (Primary) leading to QTS (Qualified Teacher Status) in line with the Teacher Apprenticeship Standards framework.
Apprentices will be placed in the employer’s school for the duration of their course.
Salary: Successful candidates will be employed on a minimum of Point 1 on the Unqualified Teacher Scale.
The Contract will run from September 2026 to August 2027.
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ENTRY CRITERIA
- Equivalent to grade 4 in GCSE English, maths and science.
- A degree awarded by UK Higher Education Institution or equivalent qualification (contact ENIC to obtain a statement of Comparability)
- An eligible residency status: ordinarily resident in the UK or the British Overseas Territories, or the Crown Dependencies (Channel Islands and Isle of Man) for at least the previous 3 years on the first day of the apprenticeship, or meet on of the eligibility residency status criteria on the hyperlinked list.
TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT
You will be required to spend an academic year in a school.
The weekly training will take place in a partnership school where subject leaders, senior leaders and specialists will deliver training that has been designed according to the provider’s curriculum and is tailored to the developmental needs of the trainee.
Each week, trainees will benefit from a day’s face-to-face training session, which is complemented by independent and mentor-led pre- and post-training tasks.
You will find further information about the Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship (PgTA, salaried) Programme by clicking on the links on the right-hand side, but if you then have any further questions that are not answered, please contact us by phone or email
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APPLYING FOR SEPTEMBER 2026
All applications have to be made through the Gov.uk Find Postgraduate Teacher Training Courses at https://www.find-postgraduate-teacher-training.service.gov.uk/
Please select the option Find Courses by school, university or other training provider and type ‘Oakthorpe Primary School’ or ‘2Schools Consortium’ for our programmes. You can also use our postcode to look for our courses: N136BY.
WHY TRAIN WITH US?
Oakthorpe Primary School in Enfield acts as the lead school in a strong and growing partnership. Trainees will complete their year’s training either at the lead school or at a school within the partnership. Schools that have worked with us include:
St Michael at Bowes Junior, Worcesters Primary, Suffolks Primary, Keys Meadow, Latymer All Saints Primary, Raynham Primary, Wilbury Primary, Galliard Primary, Firs Farm Primary and The Raglan Schools in Enfield; Lancasterian Primary, Chestnuts Primary, Rhodes Avenue Primary and South Harringay Primary in Harringay; Moss Hall Federation in Barnet and St Pauls with St Michael in Hackney.
WHAT STUDENTS SAY
“It is hard to select just one thing that has made this training so valuable. Meeting the other trainees each week is fantastic and I really missed it on the odd Thursday when our training was online. I never thought that I would get on so well with everyone on the first day we met. The training has been so useful and I now feel so much better equipped to teach and enjoy putting what I have learnt into practice. However, I think that the best thing about training with 2SC has been the support of the 2SC team. It is invaluable to know that there is someone at the end of an email who will always respond so quickly with such help and support. The quick response to my initial email, enquiring about the course was what made me choose 2 SC and I am so thankful that I did.” (Nicola, PgTA 2023.24)
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