Primary Education (with QTS) BA (Hons)

Develop a detailed knowledge of core curriculum areas in English, maths and science at all relevant levels. Contextualise your knowledge and skills appropriately and apply your understanding of learning and teaching to these subjects. Evaluate and critique policies and approaches to teaching at institutional, regional and national levels.

Become familiar with the core content requirements of initial teacher training for the compulsory sector. You also develop your confidence with discussion and research in the sector.

Appreciate the value of research and develop the basic skills required to carry it out. Learn how to search for, select, and record different research studies when using them in writing.

Reflect on your own experiences with evidence-informed strategies to meet the ever-changing needs of young people, specific institutions and the sector as a whole.

Carry out your first practice placement, building professional skills to support your development as a teacher. Engage with all aspects of school life and actively learn the ways that schools operate within your subject specialism and beyond. Build your confidence by observing experienced teachers, team teaching and delivering lessons independently to a range of ages.

Develop an understanding of theory that can be applied through professional practice. Build your confidence in creating, planning and delivering effective teaching and assessment across a range of ages and levels.

Gain a critical understanding of teachers’ professional roles and responsibilities. Learn the skills required to effectively embed the core standards of English, maths, inclusion and diversity, classroom management and the provision for students with special educational needs and disabilities.

Explore the wider curriculum areas in humanities subjects and enrichment at all relevant levels. Contextualise your knowledge and skills appropriately and apply your understanding of learning and teaching to these subjects. Evaluate and critique policies and approaches to teaching at institutional, regional and national levels.

Develop your knowledge of wider curriculum areas in the practical subjects and enrichment at all relevant levels. Contextualise your knowledge and skills appropriately and apply your understanding of learning and teaching to these subjects. Evaluate and critique policies and approaches to teaching at institutional, regional and national levels.

Develop the skills required to deliver the core curriculum across ages, stages and levels. You focus on teaching and early reading, as well as the key transition from early years to the national curriculum. You also consider the impact of special educational needs and disabilities on the development of knowledge and skills. Critically explore the ways that the core curriculum is organised, taught and managed.

Build on your knowledge of the core content requirements of initial teacher training for the compulsory sector. Develop your confidence with discussion and research in the sector.

Appreciate the value of research and implication of research for policy and practice in primary education, and develop basic skills in searching for and selecting research studies, plus recording research, and reading research studies.

Reflect on your experiences with evidence-informed strategies to meet the ever-changing needs of young people, specific institutions and the sector as a whole.

This is your second immersive teaching practice placement, where you build your professional skills to support your development as a teacher. You engage with all aspects of school life to actively learn the ways that schools operate. Build your confidence by observing experienced teachers, team teaching and delivering lessons independently to a range of ages.

Develop an understanding of working with schools successfully in different contexts. Gain theoretical knowledge and apply this in your professional practice, adapting to local, regional and national needs. Build your confidence in creating, planning and delivering effective teaching and assessment across a range of ages and levels.

Understand teachers’ professional roles and responsibilities. Learn the skills required to effectively embed the core standards of English, maths, inclusion and diversity, classroom management and the provision for students with special educational needs and disabilities.

Develop the skills required to deliver the wider humanities curriculum across ages, stages and levels. Understand the concepts underpinning the learning and teaching of these subjects, as well as school ethos and values. Focus on the transition from early years to secondary education and the enrichment curriculum to support pupils' development. You also consider the impact of special educational needs and disabilities on the development of knowledge and skills. Explore the ways in which the core curriculum is organised, taught and managed.

Develop the knowledge and skills required to deliver wider curriculum practical subjects across ages, stages and levels. Understand the concepts underpinning the learning and teaching of these subjects. Focus on the transition between early years and primary education onto secondary education. Explore the outdoor learning environment and how to create engaging digital environments, and consider the impact of special educational needs and disabilities on the development of knowledge and skills. Examine the ways that wider curriculum practical subjects are organised, taught and managed in the compulsory sector.

Build on your knowledge of core curriculum areas in English, maths and science at all levels. Develop a more detailed understanding of transition into secondary education and the primary teacher’s role in supporting this. Contextualise your knowledge and skills to apply these to your teaching, evaluating policy and approaches at institutional, regional and national levels.

You produce a piece of research over time, appropriate to your academic and vocational interests. Apply a substantive area of theory relevant to primary education, developing your own intellectual voice with a sustained argument and perspective. Reflect on your experiences with evidence-informed strategies to meet the ever-changing needs of students, institutions and the sector as a whole.

This is your final practice placement, where you build on your professional skills to support your development as a teacher. You engage with all aspects of school life to actively learn the ways that schools operate. Build your confidence by observing experienced teachers, team teaching and delivering lessons independently to a range of ages.

Evaluate your performance, enhancing your ability to link theory with practice. Look beyond your direct experiences and consider a range of pupils and educational settings. You are encouraged to become more independent and resilient, applying your skills to unfamiliar professional and classroom situations.

You also develop your understanding of traditional and contemporary learning, teaching and assessment theories. Explore government policy and curriculum theory, evaluating different approaches. Gain critical and evaluative skills to construct and sustain reasoned arguments about current educational issues and underpinning ideologies.

You build on your ability to link theory to practice. You are encouraged to take responsibility for your professional development through the planning, implementation and evaluation of wider curriculum enhancement. You engage in an area of practice relevant to your placement setting, to review and reflect on practice and how it can be enhanced.