Course Overview

Have you been taught by someone who has truly inspired you? Are you ready to pass your knowledge and enthusiasm to children to help shape their futures? This course will provide you with an integrated academic and professional preparation for teaching, leading to Qualified Teacher Status.

Our course team will work with you to enhance and develop your understanding of learning and teaching. You’ll spend a significant amount of time in school throughout the course. You will be encouraged and supported as you develop effective ways to teach the primary curriculum. You will explore the theory and practice of primary education and develop a personal philosophy underpinning all you seek to achieve with the children you teach.

Initially, you will work with small groups of children, progressing on to working with a whole class with the support of a mentor. This leads to longer personalized school placements in your second and third years, where you will take full responsibility for whole children's classes.

Our course is based around the Initial Teacher Training Core Content Framework to ensure you are well prepared to teach during each placement and prepare you for your future career in the classroom. You will study modules that develop your understanding of pedagogy and educational theory, curriculum subject knowledge, assessment, behavior management, inclusion, professional behaviors, well-being, and academic research.

In year one, you will begin to reflect on the nature of learning and teaching, including the requirements of the national curriculum, classroom management, behavior, assessment, planning, SEN and Inclusion, the core subjects of the primary curriculum (English, Mathematics, Science), along with the foundation subjects. You will also spend time working with children at the university and school.

In your second and third years, you will specialize in one age phase – 3-7 or 5-11. The modules in year two build on and extend understandings developed in the first year of the course, particularly emphasizing issues relating to research, curriculum knowledge, and SEN and Inclusion. You will also widen your school experience, perhaps by visiting multicultural and special schools and undertaking a more extensive solo placement focusing on your chosen age range.

Your third year will help you to prepare for life as an Early Career Teacher (ECT, formerly known as NQT). As well as extending your learning from Year 1 and Year 2, in Year 3, you will carry out a research project in an area of interest to you. Your final school placement allows you to take on responsibility for a whole class. At the end of the course, you will undertake a transitional placement to develop your school-based knowledge and skills further.

On completion of your degree, with your recommendation for Qualified Teacher Status, you’ll be fully equipped with the skills and knowledge to work as a primary school teacher.

General Eligibility

You will typically need 112 UCAS tariff points (from a maximum of four Advanced Level qualifications). We welcome a range of capabilities that meet this requirement, such as A/AS Levels, BTEC, Access Courses, International Baccalaureate (IB), Cambridge Pre-U, Extended Project, etc. We will accept one AS Level as part of the 112 points in a subject not included as an A2 subject. We also carry an extensive list of combinations of the qualifications above.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• N/A