Sponne School
About our school experience
- Details
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Getting some classroom experience can help you to decide whether teaching is right for you - it could also strengthen your application. Get a taste of school life..
During your placement, you’ll usually have the opportunity to:
Talk to teachers about day-to-day school life
Observe teaching and pastoral work
Watch a range of lessons and age groups being taught.
The subjects we can offer an initial day of school experience in are:
Maths
English
Science
Modern Foreign Language
History
Geography
Further days maybe arranged subject to availability.
- Start and finish times
- 9:30 am to 3:05pm
- Dress code
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Business dress
- Teacher training
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The Grand Union Training Partnership
Links to more information about our school
- Sponne School website
- Sponne School Get Information About Schools
- Ofsted report: Sponne School
- Performance information: Sponne School
- Teacher training: Sponne School
Entry requirements
You must:
- Must be applying to or have applied to our, or a partner school's, teacher training course
- Must not have been accepted onto another teacher training course
- Must have a degree
- They must live within 25 miles of the school
- Photo identification: Please bring a form of photographic identification such as passport or driving licence.
- Must already have eligibility to work in the UK and must be applying to start teacher training in September of the next academic year.
- DBS check required
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No, candidates will be accompanied at all times.
Placement availability
School Experience is available in term time and on specific days for the following subjects:
English - Tuesday
History - Tuesday
Geography - Tuesday
Maths - Wednesday
MFL - Wednesday
Sciences - Wednesday
- School experience type
- In school
Location
- Address
- Brackley Road, Towcester, Northamptonshire, NN12 6DJ
- Parking
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Not available on site
Long stay car park, Towcester, NN12 7AD
- School phases
- Secondary (11 to 16), 16 to 18
- Subjects
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- Biology
- Chemistry
- English
- French
- Geography
- German
- History
- Maths
- Physics