Apprentices will be employed by their host school as an unqualified teacher throughout all four years of the degree-apprenticeship, and hence will be predominantly placed in just one institution throughout the course. However, in the third year of the apprenticeship, there is a requirement for apprentices to undertake a placement at a different setting in line with the expectations of trainee teachers prior to the award of qualified teacher status. Apprentices will therefore work briefly at another school at this stage of the programme. It is anticipated that an apprentice’s responsibilities while placed temporarily at another partner school will be commensurate with the responsibilities they hold in their employing school.

Apprentices will have a professional mentor, also an employee of their employing school, who is a qualified Teacher of Mathematics throughout the programme. A course tutor from the University of Huddersfield will act as the apprentices’ personal academic tutor, to support their academic endeavours and to visit them in their employing schools for the purposes of lesson and activity observation on a termly basis. Apprentices will meet quarterly with their mentors, and a separate member of the course team than their personal academic tutor, to undertake apprenticeship progress (tripartite) reviews. This will ensure their development remains on course for the final award of qualified teacher status, following the successful completion of an apprenticeship end point assessment.