In conjunction with Secondary Lead School partners, the University of Chester offer English (11-16 with sixth form enhancement) as a subject specialism leading to the award PGCE with QTS. Teaching is an extremely rewarding and challenging career. Our course is designed to provide you with the knowledge, understanding and skills that you need to be an outstanding teacher. We aim to nurture teachers who are passionate about the development of their own and their pupils' learning. English is taught in conjunction with Lead Secondary Partners: Alliance of Leading Learning, Salop Teaching Partnership, Teach Cheshire, Sandstone Trust and Wade Deacon Trust. The course intends to produce secondary English teachers who are reflective practitioners, who have a love of the subject, and will be: enthusiastic and confident in the classroom pedagogically skilful and adaptable specialists in the teaching of English aware of how young people learn English knowledgeable across all areas of English – literature and language able to see their subject in the context of the whole curriculum, and understand how the skills of English can transfer across all subjects competent in a variety of areas that cross secondary school curriculum boundaries, and able to see English in the wider context - contributing to pupils' personal, social, moral, spiritual and cultural development able to work effectively as part of a team able to critically examine issues raised within the study of the subject prepared for teaching English in the 21st Century.