PGCE Primary Education

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In meeting the Government standards for Qualified Teacher Status, our course offers you the skills and qualification required to be a practising teacher in primary education and to bring out the best in you as a future teacher.

Primary School Teacher
Youth and Community Worker
Intervention Teacher

Professional Studies (20 credits)

The aim of this module is to enable students to critically evaluate and reflect on their own professional practice and develop their professional values, knowledge and skills in the classroom.

Foundation Subjects (20 credits)

You will gain a thorough understanding of each subject area in order to prepare you to teach in a Key Stage 1 or Key Stage 2 setting.

Teaching & Learning in the Core Subjects (40 credits)

This module is designed to strengthen your knowledge of the key concepts and pedagogy of English, mathematics and science as well as empower you to effectively teach this subject to Key Stage 1 and 2 pupils. This module will also include teaching in ICT to improve your knowledge and your overall digital literacy.

Developing as a Subject Specialist (20 credits)

This module is in direct response to the Government’s vision to produce specialist teachers for the future. The module currently uses English, maths, science, physical education and modern foreign languages (MFL) as examples of how to adapt specialist knowledge to lead a specialist subject in the future. You will also be able to choose your subject specialist area.

School Experience (20 credits)

Teaching placements will enable you to further develop your planning, teaching and classroom management skills in Key Stage 1 and 2. You will also be expected to demonstrate competence in the planning, teaching, assessing and recording of pupils – learning in each of these Key Stages.