School Choice

The Brighton & Hove School Teacher Training Partnership is a large alliance of schools from Brighton & Hove and the surrounding area. As a partnership, Hove Park School is the Lead School in an alliance of different schools from across the City and beyond, and we are committed to initial teacher training.

School Choice PGCE training can be through either:

• Sussex University (accreditation is through Chichester University, trainees will be based at Sussex University and school placements will be in the Brighton and Hove area)
• University of Brighton

The Primary, Secondary Schools and Sixth Form Colleges in our alliance have had consistently good and outstanding OFSTED grading for their teaching and learning in recent years.

Our schools are very experienced in both university and school based teacher training routes, and mentors and coaches are well trained to support you through your training year. We also have a network of very supportive and experienced professional tutors and in-school mentors that will stretch and challenge you, so that you become the best practitioner that you can over the year. All our mentors are themselves outstanding practitioners. 

Schools in the partnership include primary, maintained secondary schools and academies and the diversity within the partnership enables you as a trainees to engage with a wide variety of teaching methods and styles of learning.

Each year we have a large selection of trainees in our schools, including PGCE, so you will not be alone but will benefit from the peer to peer support that is so important when learning new skills.

Our training is supported by both the University of Brighton and the University of Sussex which have a long and successful tradition in teacher education. The universities work with us to provide quality inputs on how to teach and assess in different secondary subjects or across the curriculum in primary schools. We offer training in a wide range of curriculum areas including Psychology, Business Studies, Design Technology, Media and MFL.

The Universities also provide a comprehensive programme of professional studies which complements the sessions offered across our partnership. University sessions take place every Friday on the University campus and include a mix of lectures, workshops and tutorials led by faculty, excellent teachers from partnership schools and other educational experts. These sessions also allow you to share your experiences with other trainee teachers and reflect upon the learning and teaching you do in schools.