Schools Direct Salaried
Get paid to earn a PGCE!
You will join Goldsmiths, University of London’s Primary programme, with full access to university services and facilities, benefitting from the expertise and the research profile of our Primary team.
You will focus on either 3-7 year-olds (Foundation Stage/Key Stage 1), 5-11 year-olds (Key
Stage 1/Key stage 2) or 7-11 year-olds (Key Stage 2). You are supported professionally by a system of school and personal tutoring.
This School Direct route leads to the award of the internationally recognised Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), with the opportunity to gain 60 Master’s credits and Qualified Teacher Status.
The programme covers all the National Curriculum subjects and deals in detail with the three core areas of English, mathematics and science. In each curriculum area, opportunities are provided to enable you to develop understanding of the teaching and learning process, and to learn about effective classroom practice. The 3-7 age range programme includes additional sessions relevant to teaching in the Foundation Stage. Cross curricular themes, skills and dimensions are a vital part of the programme,
and thematic integrated patterns of work are encouraged throughout your school experience and college-based work.
You will benefit from an approach to teacher education that puts creative,
inclusive and reflective practice at the heart of our programme.