School Direct Information Pack 2021/22

What is the Ealing Teaching School Alliance? Ealing Teaching School Alliance (ETSA) is an exciting and innovative collaboration striving to provide

teaching excellence in the London Borough of Ealing. The Alliance comprises of 13 secondary schools and is

in partnership with Hillingdon SCITT, St Mary’s University and Goldsmiths, university of London.

ETSA has a fantastic reputation for its well-established training programmes and its excellent track-record of

induction. ETSA’s commitment to ensuring that all trainees, regardless of subject or route, are able to

benefit from the experience and expertise of the very best practitioners makes it an excellent place to train

and procure employment once qualified. For the past five years, the vast majority of ETSA trainees have

secured their first qualified teacher role within the Alliance upon completion of their training year.

Why train with us?

All schools in ETSA are highly supportive and inspirational environments where you will develop the

necessary skills and acquire a true appreciation of the practice essential for outstanding teaching and

learning. You will learn your craft in a safe environment which allows you to experiment with teaching

styles, strategies and ideas.

Your training will be delivered by expert teachers within the school. You will participate in weekly

professional development sessions and you will also attend Alliance-wide “Golden Day” training events

along with fellow ETSA trainees. Your school-led training will be complemented by attendance at the

Hillingdon SCITT, St Mary’s University or Goldsmiths, university of London.

You will be assigned an experienced mentor from within your subject area at your main placement school

who will support you in your development over the course of what will be a challenging and rewarding

year. All mentors are excellent teachers who are well-trained in mentoring, coaching, lesson observations

and feedback skills. You will also work closely with a member of the Senior Leadership team who will

oversee a great deal of your training and will provide an invaluable perspective on your role as a teacher

and the wider issues of education leadership.

As well as your main training placement, you will complete a 7-12 week placement in a contrasting

context within ETSA; this will afford you the opportunity to experience working with different students,

within different structures and with a wider range of colleagues.

The benefits of teaching

O Rewarding & Challenging

O Varied

O Make a real difference to those you teach

O Financial benefits

O Holidays!

Salaried School Direct

School Direct is a school-led teacher training option that offers practical, hands-on training and education.

This course offers a brilliant option if you want to train and learn ‘on the job’, and you shouldn’t worry

about being thrown in at the deep end. You’ll be part of a team from the very start, receiving intensive

support from experienced teachers and mentors. That means you won’t be teaching classes unsupported

until the school thinks you’re ready. School-led courses have very high rates of employment and trainee

satisfaction.

About the School Direct programme

Unsalaried School Direct

This route is aimed at high quality career changers. You

will be employed by your main placement school and paid

a salary up to £25,000 depending on the subject you will

teach. At the end of the one year training programme,

you will gain Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). You should

be a degree holder, with at least a 2:2 in a relevant

subject. You must have 3 years’ work experience,

although less experience may be considered for shortage

subjects such as Physics, Maths, Chemistry, Modern

Foreign Languages and Computing.

You do not have to be supernumerary and you can have

up to 80% of a teaching timetable. You will attend the

Hillingdon SCITT, St Mary’s University or Goldsmiths (as

applicable) for up to 15 days of training. The majority of

your training will be delivered by the school.

This route is aimed at recent graduates.

Unsalaried School Direct trainees work

towards a Postgraduate Certificate of

Education (PGCE) during the training year,

which also results in Qualified Teacher

Status (QTS). You must have at least a 2:2

class degree in a relevant subject. You will

be eligible for student finance to cover the

cost of your PGCE fees, as well as a

training bursary (dependent on degree

classification).

You will be supernumerary and you can

have up to 50% of a teaching timetable.

About our schools for 2021-22 School Direct offer

Brentside High School, Hanwell

Dormers Wells High School, Southall

Ealing Fields High School, Ealing

Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls, Acton

Elthorne Park High School, Hanwell

Northolt High School, Northolt

Twyford CE High School, Acton

William Perkin CE High School, Greenford

Villiers High School, Southall

Brentside High School

A popular and oversubscribed secondary school serving an ethnically diverse community

1400 students, 300 in the sixth form

Investors in People

Students make excellent progress supported by teaching, learning and assessment of the highest standard.

Students ‘are extremely complimentary about their school and the staff who work with them. They want to do well, regularly attend and work hard.’ (Ofsted 2016)

Ofsted rating of ‘good’

Ealing Fields High School

Ealing Fields High School is the most recent member of the Twyford CofE Academies Trust family of schools.

It was opened as a Free School in 2016 by a group of parents with a strong desire to provide an excellent new school for the South Ealing community.

Ealing Fields joined the Twyford CE Acade-mies Trust and is the smallest of the Trust schools, with only 120 in each year group and therefore has a very compact family feel.

The school motto is Brave Hearts, Bold Minds - Brave enough to listen to our

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About our schools

Elthorne Park High School Successful and oversubscribed 11 -19 mixed

comprehensive school of 1100 students

Specialism in Mathematics and Computing

Growing Sixth Form opened in 2009

Performance is above Ealing and national averages

Emphasis on developing students’ potential and celebrating their successes

Well-designed curriculum meets the needs of students

Committed to partnership with parents and carers

Ofsted rating of ‘’outstanding’

The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls A diverse school—microcosm of multi-cultural London

Specialist Schools Award, DfE – value added Investors in People

Specialist college for Science and Mathematics

Highly qualified and hardworking staff

Excellent relationships between pupils and staff

Ethos effectively supports and encourages learning

Ofsted rating of ‘outstanding’

Northolt High School An inclusive 11-19 school where students are well

cared for, challenged and supported to make outstanding academic progress.

Northolt High school was praised in its most recent Ofsted report for its “culture and

Climate of high expectations”.

We are proud to promote our ‘STEAM’ specialism, which places great emphasis on the STEM subjects such as Computing, Mathematics and Science alongside a real focus on the Arts.

Our vision statement is “committed to excellence”.

Ofsted rating ’Good’

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About our schools

Twyford Church of England High School

Lead school in the Ealing Teaching School Alliance

One of four Twyford CE Academies Trust schools

Large, oversubscribed comprehensive school

500 students in the sixth form

Performance well above Ealing and national averages

Distinctively Christian, with an emphasis on developing socially responsible individuals

William Perkin Church of England High School One of four Twyford CE Academies Trust

schools

Opened as a Free School in September 2013

At full capacity for the first time (Year 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13)

Distinctively Christian, with an emphasis on developing socially responsible individuals

Student progress and personal progression is exceptional

Ofsted rating of ‘outstanding’

Finance Information for Unsalaried School Direct Scholarships

Scholarships of up to £30,000 are available in maths, physics, chemistry and computing for trainees who

are starting their training in the 2021/22 academic year. These prestigious awards are aimed at high-

quality graduates with a 2:1 or first-class degree, who are passionate about their subject and have the

potential to be inspirational teachers.

Scholarships are awarded by professional bodies for these subjects, and scholars will be selected through

an additional application and assessment process. Each scholarship also comes with a package of non-

financial benefits, such as early career support and membership of the appropriate professional body. To

apply for a scholarship and for further information, you should visit the appropriate subject association

website:

Physics – delivered by the Institute of Physics (IOP)

Chemistry – delivered by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Maths – delivered by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)

Computing – delivered by the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT

The scholarship will be instead of the standard bursary, but trainees who are not awarded the

scholarship will still be eligible for the standard bursaries.

Training bursaries

To encourage the best graduates to enter the profession, financial incentives are offered to trainees

intending to train to teach the subjects in the table below. You do not need to apply for a bursary – if you

are enrolled on a non-salaried postgraduate course and meet the eligibility criteria below, you will begin

receiving payments at the beginning of your course.

Financial offer for

Physics

Scholarships

Bursaries Early-career

payments Trainee with

1st/PhD 2:1/Masters 2:2

Physics £26,000 £24,000 £24,000 £24,000 £6,000

Scholarships and bursaries for other subjects

Scholarships

Bursaries

Trainee with 1st/PhD

2:1/Masters 2:2 Other

Chemistry, Computing or Maths

£26,000 £24,000 £24,000 £24,000

Languages £10,000 £10,000 £10,000 £0

Biology - £7,000 £7,000 £7,000 £0

Finance Information for Salaried School Direct

ETSA Salaried School Direct trainees will be paid on the Unqualified Teacher Pay Scale (Band A, Inner London) area.

All ETSA schools offering Salaried places in Maths, Physics and Computing will pay trainees at least £25,000 as a

result of additional funding being offered by the government. Salaries for other subjects will vary depending on the

subject and salary.

Unqualified Teacher Pay Scale

Qualified Teacher Pay Scale

When you have completed your training year and secured your first qualified teacher role in the Ealing Teaching

School Alliance, you will be paid on the Qualified Teacher Pay Scale (Band A, Inner London Area). Here is an idea of

how your salary could progress over the following 6 years:

Scale point Annual salary England and

Wales excluding London

(band D)

Annual salary inner London

area

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Annual salary outer London

area

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Annual salary Fringe area

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£ £ £ £

1 18,169 22,849 21,582 19,363

2 20,282 24,962 23,696 21,473

3 22,394 27,075 25,809 23,587

4 24,507 29,187 27,926 25,699

5 26,622 31,298 30,037 27,812

6 28,735 33,410 32,151 29,924

Scale point Annual salary England and

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Annual salary inner London

area

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Annual salary outer London

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Annual salary Fringe area

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1 25,714 32,157 29,915 26,948

2 27,600 33,658 31,604 28,828

3 29,664 35,226 33,383 30,883

4 31,778 36,866 35,264 32,999

5 34,100 39,492 38,052 35,307

6 36,961 42,624 41,136 38,174

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Before applying for a School Direct position at ETSA UCAS is open for applications for Schools Direct from the 13th October 2020, but from the 6th October you can browse all courses that will have vacancies on the GOV.UK website https://find-postgraduate-teacher-training.education.gov.uk/

When you reach the page above, please either search ‘By postcode, town or city’ using the location ‘Ealing, UK’ or ‘By school, university or other training provider’ using the code 1KV and selecting Ealing Teaching School Alliance.

All the ETSA School Direct courses will be listed, but you can then filter by subject using the options on the left side of the screen. Please make a note of the course codes of the course you want to apply for, as these will be needed when applying through UCAS.

https://www.ucas.com/postgraduate/teacher-training/apply-through-ucas-teacher-training/filling-your-ucas-teacher-training-application

How to apply for a School Direct position at ETSA

Applications for ETSA School Direct courses must be made through UCAS.

There is lots of guidance on the application process, and tracking your application, on the following pages;

https://www.ucas.com/postgraduate/teacher-training/ucas-teacher-training-apply-and-track

How to apply for a School Direct position at ETSA

Applying for ETSA’s School Direct vacancies on UCAS

When you know which subject, school and route you want to apply for, you can begin your application.

Before you can apply, you must register with UCAS to create an account. When you have registered, click

“apply for 2020 training programmes”.

To apply for a position at ETSA, click on “add a choice” under the “Choices” tab as follows:

In the “training provider code” section, search for “Ealing Teaching School Alliance” and the course

training provider code 1KV will be automatically entered. You can then choose your training programme

by providing the UCAS course code of the vacancy you wish to apply for. Please see the list of vacancies

in this booklet for individual course codes. When choosing a training location/campus, the school’s name

will appear for you to select. Please note that for Twyford places, the location is listed as “main site”.

ETSA vacancies are full-time and modular. See below for an example of applying for Salaried Biology at

Twyford:

The other sections are

straightforward and

UCAS provide you with

detailed instructions.

Each tab in the lefthand

column must be

completed before you

can submit your

application.

Please note that once

you have completed and

submitted your

application, we will not

receive your application

until your referees have

provided your reference.

How long does the training programme last?

The next cohort of ETSA School Direct trainees will begin their training in September 2021 and finish in

summer 2022.

I haven’t got a degree. Can I still apply?

No, all candidates must hold a UK degree (or equivalent). Please note if you are currently studying

towards an undergraduate degree, you must have completed the course prior to commence a School

Direct training programme.

I live outside of the UK. Can I still apply?

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK to be eligible for School Direct at ETSA. Some schools

may be willing to sponsor applicants who are looking at applying for the salaried route in Physics, Maths

or Computer Science.

Do I need to have experience of working in a UK school?

Experience of working in a school is not a mandatory requirement for joining the School Direct

Programme. However, school experience is desirable, especially for a salaried route. Before you apply for

your training, we recommend you gain as much experience in the classroom as possible in order to

strengthen your application and prepare yourself for potential interviews. To find out more about getting

school experience, please visit https://schoolexperience.education.gov.uk/

What qualification will I receive at the end of the training programme?

Trainees on the non-salaried route will gain a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) and Qualified

Teacher Status (QTS) upon successful completion of the training year. Trainees on the salaried route will

gain Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).

Can I apply by submitting a CV and covering letter directly to the School?

No, all applications must be submitted via UCAS. To find a programme and to apply, please visit:

https://www.ucas.com/ucas/teacher-training

I’m having issues submitting my application via UCAS.

Unfortunately we are unable to help with technical issues with UCAS. You can find plenty of help at

https://www.ucas.com/ucas/teacher-training

I have submitted my application and I haven’t heard back from you.

After you have applied, you will receive a welcome email from UCAS within 48 hours. We aim to respond

to applicants within 25 working days of receiving your application. If we would like to invite you to an

interview, it is likely that it will take place within these 25 working days.

Will I secure a teacher position with you after my training?

We aim for 100% of our School Direct trainees to secure permanent employment with us upon successful

completion of the training year. At ETSA, we see the School Direct training programme as the beginning

of your teaching career with us, not just a one year training programme. For the past four years, the vast

majority of our trainees have secured permanent employment within their main placement school, or

partner school within the Alliance.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Email us

For school-related queries, please email ETSA : teachingschool@twyford.ealing.sch.uk

For course-related queries, please email the relevant accrediting provider:

Goldsmiths University: TEP@gold.ac.uk

Hillingdon SCITT: bsheppard.312@lgflmail.org

St Mary’s University: shuetkwan.tang@stmarys.ac.uk

Find out more

ETSA: http://www.etsa.org.uk/

Twyford CE High School: http://www.twyford.ealing.sch.uk/

William Perkin CE High School: http://www.williamperkin.org.uk/

Brentside High School: http://www.brentsidehigh.ealing.sch.uk

Dormers Wells High School: http://www.dwhs.co.uk/

Ealing Fields High School: https://ealingfields.org.uk/

Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls: http://www.ellenwilkinson.ealing.sch.uk/

Elthorne Park High School: http://www.ephs.ealing.sch.uk/

Northolt High School: http://www.northolthigh.org.uk/

Villiers High School: http://www.villiers.ealing.sch.uk/

Goldsmiths University: http://www.gold.ac.uk/educational-studies/schooldirect/

Hillingdon SCITT: http://www.hillingdonteachingschoolalliance.org/HillingdonSCITT/

St Mary’s University: https://www.stmarys.ac.uk/teacher-training/school-direct/overview.aspx

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