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Training and Support

Programme Structure

  • School Placements: Spend a minimum of 120 days across two local placements (Key Stage 1 and 2) in Warrington, Cheshire West, or Halton, fully integrating into staff meetings, parents' evenings, and extra-curricular life.
  • Academic & Centre-Based Learning: Earn 60 master’s credits via Liverpool Hope University alongside expert-led seminars, workshops, and assignments.
What You Will Study
  • Core Pedagogical Theory: Master behaviour management, cognitive science (how pupils learn), assessment strategies, and effective use of learning time.
  • Subject & Phase Expertise: Gain hands-on training to develop deep subject knowledge specific to the primary curriculum.
  • Inclusion & SEND: Access a curriculum where supporting disadvantaged pupils and those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) is a golden thread throughout all training.
  • Intensive Training & Practice (ITaPs): Complete 20 focused days dedicated to high expectations, phonics and early reading, and adaptive teaching.
Assessment & Support
  • Hands-On Practice: Deconstruct expert practice and collaborate with peers in a low-stakes environment before leading your own lessons.
  • Comprehensive Oversight: Benefit from ongoing assessment via lesson observations and an evidence portfolio, fully guided by a dedicated school-based mentor
Mentor Support

Guided by dedicated mentors, you will safely deconstruct expert practice and collaborate with peers before leading lessons, with your progress supported through ongoing observations and a professional portfolio.  The team approach provides a range of professionals and a consistent voice who each understand the trainee’s development and context. The mentor roles that are there to support trainees are:

From our core team, all trainees on our School-Based Teacher Training programme are assigned to a Lead Mentor. This experienced teacher stays with the trainee throughout the year, providing a consistent professional voice and support to the Trainee through their placement.

The Lead Mentor has an excellent understanding of the requirements of each placement. They ensure the monitoring and moderating of the Trainee across all placements. This provides consistency and a high level of developmental support.

Every trainee is assigned to a class in a school. The class teacher is called a Class Mentor. They are responsible for guiding and supporting trainees during their placements whilst they are in the classroom. They meet weekly with the trainee to discuss professional development, agree planning, set targets and arrange observations of lessons.

Trainees on Generate Teaching Hub’s School-Based Teacher Training are allocated a mentor from Liverpool Hope University who is responsible for the liaison and quality assurance of provision and mentoring across a section of the partnership.

They will visit each trainees in placement and ensure quality provision and parity in the assessment of trainees across the partnership. They are also known as LHU Tutors.

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