Teacher training in Oundle
Oundle School is situated in the quintessentially English market town of Oundle, about 90 miles north of London in Northamptonshire. The school’s buildings, dating from the 17th to the 21st centuries, are dispersed throughout the town, which is, to a large extent, its campus.
There are currently 1110 pupils on roll at Oundle School, with 860 boarders and 250 day pupils.
Why choose to train for PGCE in Oundle Hub?
Our PGCE course hub in Northamptonshire provides an excellent network of partner schools in a variety of interesting locations where you’ll gain your classroom teaching experience. Oundle and Northamptonshire are centrally located to the rest of the UK with a pleasing mix of cultural, historic and scenic locations to explore.
From Oundle, you can enjoy a buzzing hub of events including regular music, literature, food and sporting festivals, and a beautiful market town full of quaint cafes, independent shops and plenty of food traders and farmer’s markets.
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Meet the Oundle Hub Leader - Geraldine Skinner
Geraldine is a French national with 23 years of experience teaching in the UK. She has been teaching French at Oundle since September 2002 and has been involved with different training programs for the last 10 years, having been a trainee mentor as well as an NQT mentor. Geraldine joined the NML SCITT program 4 years ago as a mentor.
Alongside teaching and her new role as NML SCITT Hub Leader, she leads the Fire and Rescue section of the School Combined Cadet Forces and also coaches swimming.
Outside the school environment, Geraldine enjoys travelling, reading, kayaking, tree-top walking and crafts. Her favourite destinations are Brittany and French Catalonia where she spends most of her summer holidays.
Hub Partner Schools
A key part of our teacher training course in Northamptonshire includes two placements, gaining hands-on classroom experience in our fantastic partner schools.
From our train to teach hub in Oundle you’ll be allocated to one of two locations across Northamptonshire.
An independent day school for boys and girls aged 7 to 18. It consists of a junior school, senior school and sixth form.
A selective independent school for boys located in the county town of Bedford, composed of the Preparatory School and the Upper School.
A co-educational grammar school with academy status on South Road, in Bourne, Lincolnshire.
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A mixed secondary academy school in Oakham, Rutland, for students aged 11 to 16.
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A mixed primary and secondary phase school, with sixth form in Kettering, Northamptonshire, teaching students from age 3 to 18.
A mixed secondary comprehensive in Littleport, East Cambridgeshire.
A secondary school with academy status, located in Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, England that serves an extensive area of South Cambridgeshire.
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A mixed, independent, boarding and day school in the market town of Oakham in Rutland, for students aged 10 to 18.
A mixed secondary school and sixth form in Peterborough.
A mixed secondary school and sixth form in Oundle, Northamptonshire.
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Rugby School is a day and mostly boarding co-educational independent school in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.
A mixed secondary school and sixth form in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.
An independent girls’ school situated in the market town of Stamford.
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An independent school located in Peterborough, England. Founded as a day school for girls, it is now a coeducational day school.
A mixed primary, secondary and sixth form school in Peterborough.
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An 11–18 mixed, Church of England, independent day school and sixth form in Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire
A secondary school in the village of Witchford, near Ely, Cambridgeshire with approximately 820 pupils on roll. Before becoming an academy the school was a specialist Sports College.
