Training at Co-op Academy Grove means joining a large, experienced and supportive primary team where colleagues work together to help every teacher develop. You’ll learn in a school with clear routines and a strong behaviour curriculum, while gaining practical experience of restorative and relational approaches that help pupils make positive choices and build strong relationships.

Our broad and balanced curriculum is carefully planned to meet the needs of Grove’s diverse community. Trainees benefit from well-sequenced schemes, regular Teacher Collaboration Time and weekly professional development, including work based on Teach Like a Champion. You’ll have the chance to plan alongside experienced teachers, adapt learning for a wide range of needs and develop the subject knowledge needed across the primary curriculum.

Most importantly, you’ll never be learning alone. With a large teaching, leadership and support team, there is always someone to turn to for advice on teaching, behaviour, SEND, safeguarding or the everyday challenges of school life. And at the centre of it all are Grove’s resilient, funny, caring and enthusiastic children, who make the experience of learning to teach here so rewarding.

Co-op Academies Trust believes in changing the lives of young people through empowering teachers and young people to work together for a better education and a better community.

The Trust brings together expertise from across Primary, Secondary, Special and Further Education in an aim to promote excellence in all aspects of education.

Our provision is a combination of practical training, both within and outside of the classroom; a proactive and evidence-informed curriculum to build your pedagogical and subject knowledge with a further academic focus provided by university professionals. Our courses offer Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) accredited by Bright Futures SCITT, part of the Bright Futures Teaching School Hub as well as a Masters Level Qualification through the Postgraduate Certificate in Education awarded by The University of Derby (PGCE with 60 Masters Credits).

As a Trainee Teacher with Co-op Academies, you can immerse yourself in school life from day one and join a team of staff committed to delivering the highest quality learning and teaching to children across our Trust. 

If you are keen to learn from a range of professionals currently in a full time role within our placement schools, then our school-led training is the route for you. Your mentors, teachers and Specialist Leaders of Education (SLEs) will support you fully, using innovative training to enable you to become a resilient, successful teacher. 

• A curriculum that grows with you, through three phases: Introductory, Developmental and Consolidation

• Weekly Learn, Explore, Apply reflection tasks – linking theory to practice

• Professional studies to boost your confidence in behaviour, planning, assessment, and SEND

• Intensive training weeks focused on things like questioning, clarity and scaffolding

• Experience across mainstream, alternative and SEND settings – plus out-of-phase experience (e.g. primary trainees spend time in secondary)