Course summary

• Train to become a well-rounded and creative early years and primary school teacher.
• Understand early years teaching, and how children learn.
• Gain hands-on experience with extensive in-school training.
• Develop your interests and expertise into a specialist teaching area.
• Qualify as a teacher, and benefit from the course's very high graduate employment level.

Gain the skills, experience and training you need to enter primary teaching as a qualified professional. We help you to grow academically, while obtaining sound practical and theoretical knowledge of teaching. You graduate a qualified, experienced early years and primary teacher, with specialist expertise and professional connections.

 How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

The course aims to integrate the practical and theoretical aspects of teaching. There are placement experiences from the first year onwards. You conduct research in your specialist area, and will be taught to critically analyse key learning principles.

You learn through:

• lectures and seminars from expert tutors
• regular school-based placements and research
• one-to-one support from a personal academic tutor
• research into a specialist area such as maths, science, PE or languages
• range of e-learning materials

Future careers

The majority of students completing the course go directly into employment as qualified teachers. A number of key transferrable skills are also developed throughout the course, allowing for alternative progression or career routes. Some of these include:

• local authority/voluntary sector worker or researcher
• non-government organisation (NGO) administrative and research posts
• enrichment work with young people
• more general graduate careers including, for example, retail management and the civil service
• academic career as researcher via Masters level study and PhD

 Modules

Module and assessment information for future years is displayed as currently validated and may be liable to change. When selecting electives, your choices will be subject to the core requirements of the course. As a result, selections may be limited to a choice between one of two or more specified electives in some instances.