School Alliances
If you're studying on the PGCE Primary Education with QTS (School Based) course, you'll apply to one of our Alliances, and following a successful interview, be placed in one of their host schools. You'll have an additional placement in one of the partner schools within the Alliance.
We're currently in partnership with the following:
Aim High Alliance
Lead school: Newbottle Primary Academy.
Host schools include Gillas Lane Primary Academy, Dubmire Primary Academy, and Hetton Primary School.
Durham Schools Together
Lead school: Coxhoe Primary School.
Host schools include Esh C of E Primary.
Laidlaw Trust
Host schools include Academy 360 (Sunderland), Atkinson Road Primary Academy (Newcastle), Oxclose Primary (Washington), Sedgefield Hardwick Primary Academy (Sedgefield), South Hylton Primary Academy (Sunderland) , Thomas Walling Primary Academy (Newcastle) and Westgate Hill Primary Academy (Newcastle).
Melrose Learning Trust
Lead school: Abbey Infant and Junior Schools
South of Tyne Primary Alliance
Lead school: Springwell Village Primary.
Host schools include George Washington Primary and John F Kennedy Primary.
Washington and Chester-le-Street Training Teacher Alliance
Lead school: Rickleton Primary.
Host schools include Chester-Le-Street C of E Primary, Pelton Community Primary and Lambton Primary.
West Park Alliance
Lead school: West Park Academy.
Host schools include Skerne Park Primary, Reid Street Primary and Red Hall Primary.