Trainee Teacher - Art

Are you considering a career as an Art Teacher?

Would you like to train on the job at one of our Swindon schools?

• Don’t miss the opportunity to complete your PGCE at Swindon Academy or Nova Hreod – both Ofsted rated ‘good’ schools in Swindon
• Close to the beautiful Cotswolds and within commuting distance of Bristol, Bath, Oxford and Gloucester

This training post is unsalaried. You can apply for a tuition fee loan of up to £9,250 to cover your teacher training, so you do not need to pay course fees upfront - and a maintenance loan of up to £12,382 to help with living costs.

Nova Hreod Academy and Swindon Academy are part of United Learning - the biggest Multi-Academy Trust in the UK. United Teaching is our Initial Teacher Training scheme. We can offer you more than any single school. Training while you teach, you will learn from the best and share our expertise nationwide. With support from mentors and tutors across the Group, it all adds up to the best start for our children, and your career. Because here, teacher training is a path to senior leadership roles across the country.

United Teaching National SCITT is a bespoke teacher training course, run in partnership with a top university, who award the Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). The course starts with a two-week ‘summer school’ in August. You will spend your academic year at Nova Hreod with additional training one afternoon each week. You will complete a second placement at another School and attend up to three ‘conferences’. Assessment will continue throughout the course, based on your classroom experience and achievement measured against Teaching Standards, while your academic study will comprise of two academic assignments.

We are looking for candidates who:

• Are passionate about their subject
• Have been awarded or are on track to achieve a 2:1 Degree. (Negotiable in exceptional cases)
• Have experience working with children (not essential)
• Are committed to working as part of a team
• Are highly organised
• Have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

We offer:

• Unique and inspirational environments to work in
• School buildings that are only 10 years old with beautiful school grounds
• Professional and collaborative schools with a commitment to continued professional development
• Enthusiastic and well-behaved children with a love of learning
• The opportunity to join a strong staff team, where our values are integral to all we do
• A happy place to work!

This in an outstanding opportunity to complete your training at a successful academy. In our Cluster we are driven by a forward-thinking philosophy and a vibrant, positive culture. In a friendly and welcoming school with supportive colleagues, you'll be able to make a real impact on our academy, and on the lives of our children.

Why choose us

We can offer you a school where we are proud to teach a knowledge-rich curriculum and you will receive excellent CPD to develop your subject pedagogy and classroom management. You will have access to collaboratively planned schemes of work and lesson resources. We guarantee disruption free learning in EVERY lesson. We have a highly supportive and hands-on SLT who take responsibility for creating a calm and respectful ethos.

We have a dedicated team of non-teaching pastoral and SEN staff work with SLT and teachers to support pupils and this enables us to have a 98% record of homework completion with centralised detentions for non-completion. We also have an amazing varied extra-curricular programme which helps our students grow and develop into rounded individuals.