School Direct Partners
The Faculty of Education and Children's Services is working in partnership with the following schools developing high quality School Direct Initial Teacher Education.

To read more about a Lead School, please click on their name to be directed to their website.
A teaching post in your host school at the end of you PGCE is not guaranteed but you may be employed in the consortium. The lead schools awarded School Direct Numbers in Partnership with the University of Chester are as follows:
- Broomfields Junior School (Warrington)
- Kelsall Primary school (Nr. Chester)
- Marches School (Oswestry)
- Mickle Trafford Village School (Nr. Chester)
- Newport Infant School/The Bridge Special School (Telford)
- St Bernards Catholic Primary School (Ellesmere Port)
- St John Plessington Catholic College (Bebbington, Wirral)
- St Peter's CE Primary & Nursery School (Wem, North Shropshire)
- The Fallibroome Academy (Macclesfield)
- The Priory School (Shrewsbury)
- UCAT (Warrington)
- Wade Deacon High School (Widnes)
- The Whitby High School (Ellesmere Port)
- Willaston CofE Primary School (South Wirral)