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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Stoke-on-Trent Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
The BA (Hons) Primary Education with QTS provides a route into primary teaching alongside gaining an education degree, which means you'll be able to go straight into your first job as a primary school teacher when you graduate. Our course puts learning at the heart of what we do. This means that your learning is at the centre of the course just as, when you are teaching, the learning of your school students must be at the centre of your work. The course is distinctive because it involves a mix of university input and school experience, close attention to your individual needs and a genuine sense of partnership with the schools that we work with. You'll undertake valuable and varied placements at each stage of the course in a range of settings. On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: BA (Hons) Primary Education with Qualified Teacher Status.
4.2A combination of taught university sessions and school placement, this module helps you to learn what it means to be an education professional and how to develop your professional skills and attributes. You will engage in reflection about your own values and how these impact on your practice in school and will also reflect throughout the year on your work in your placement, identifying what you are doing well and what your next steps are in your journey to becoming an excellent qualified teacher.
The most important aspect of a teacher?s role is safeguarding of the children in your care. In this module, you will develop your knowledge and understanding of safeguarding policy and practice and be able to reflect on some of the issues that professional teachers may encounter. You will have the opportunity to think about and discuss the wider implications of safeguarding for your own classroom practice, whilst becoming familiar with the specialist software available in primary schools to facilitate good practice
This module will provide you with a solid knowledge and understanding of the core curriculum subjects (English, Mathematics and Science) and prime and specific areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) in the context of learning and teaching in the primary school and early years settings. This module provides a strong philosophical underpinning to the importance of student teachers? subject knowledge in the primary and EYFS curriculum. By studying this module, you will begin to develop your own rationale for your approach to the teaching of the core subjects and to meet the needs of all learners. The module will provide you with a good understanding of creative approaches to the delivery of the core curriculum in schools and provides substantial support for your professional teaching practice.
This module explores how teachers can develop creative approaches to teaching the Foundation Subjects at Key stages 1 & 2 and in the Early Years. You will be introduced to key areas of learning for each of the subjects and supported to understand the statutory and non-statutory curriculum guidance, and theoretical perspectives and resources used by schools to deliver these subjects. The importance of schools achieving a broad and balanced curriculum is reflected here as the relevance of each subject within the National Curriculum and how they support one another and can be linked through cross-curricular themes is considered.
Your professional teacher identity has been developed over the past two years and this module enables you to reflect on some of the issues that professional teachers may encounter in order to improve your practice. You will learn what research and policy has to contribute to these issues and reflect on your own practice in light of these challenges.
This module will build on your previous year?s studies as you deepen your knowledge and understanding of the core curriculum subjects (English, Mathematics and Science) in the context of learning and teaching in the primary school. This module provides a strong philosophical underpinning to the importance of student teachers? subject knowledge in the primary school. By studying this module, you will continue to shape your own rationale for your approach to the teaching of the core subjects and to meet the needs of all learners. The module will provide you with a good understanding of approaches the core curriculum in schools and provides substantial support for your professional teaching practice.
Building on the Professional Studies module from Level 4, this module will deepen your understanding of issues in education and your development as a professional. You will learn more about how schools monitor the safety and wellbeing of their children and will also investigate the wide range of assessment activities that take place and how the information from these is used. Through university sessions and placements you will continue to reflect on your continuing professional development and continue to develop your professional persona and practice.
This module explores how teachers can develop creative approaches to teaching the Foundation Subjects at Key stage 2 and how these progress at Key Stage 3. You will be develop your knowledge of key areas of learning for each of the subjects and supported to understand the statutory and non-statutory curriculum guidance, and theoretical perspectives and resources used by schools to deliver these subjects.
This module will change year on year as it aims to engage with contemporary issues in education. This will link to government led initiatives, sector driven concerns as well as future challenges within the wide field of primary education.
This module will allow you to participate in a small scale independent research project. The content of the research will be determined by the selection of the topic to be studied and the framing of the hypothesis/research question. This module will allow you to build on and develop your research skills, to implement different research methodology and to undertake small scale research utilising appropriate academic conventions.
The purpose of this module is to provide you with an understanding of relevant theory and practice in relation to: Rationale for use of qualitative or quantitative data in researching education. Underlying methodological assumptions underpinning choice of method: positivism, ethnography, post-modernism and critical realism;Integrity in educational research: making assumptions explicit, acknowledging sources of bias, caution in interpretation of data, triangulation;Quantitative methods including questionnaire design, descriptive statistics, sample size and composition, regression, residuals, statistical significance, confidence intervals and effect sizes.
This module enables detailed and systematic examination of personal and professional development. This includes the final preparations of meeting the Teacher Standards and will be evidenced by the production of a detailed and well-structured portfolio, based on the experienced gained primarily within the final two years of the course.
