BA (Hons) Primary Teaching (English) (QTS)

Learners and Learning

This module invites you to explore your identity as learners and emerging professionals within educational contexts.

It examines what it means to be a university student, a lifelong learner, and a future teacher, while developing essential academic and study skills.

You will engage with key learning theories and influences on development, including cognitive science, social, emotional, and spiritual growth, safeguarding, equality and diversity, SEND, and behaviour.

The module situates these themes within broader educational and global contexts, introducing local responses to global challenges and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through this, you will begin to understand the vision of a Chichester teacher and reflect on your own professional journey. 

Teachers and Teaching

This module supports you in your journey to becoming a teacher. You will be supported in recognising and developing your teacher identity, knowledge, understanding and appreciation of professional roles and responsibilities within professional frameworks.

You will be equipped with the skills, knowledge and organisational structure needed in preparation for your first full-time school experience placement.

This module embeds the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by equipping you to integrate sustainability principles, critical awareness, and responsible practice within your teaching and professional contexts.

School Experience 1

This module will complement university-based studies, particularly the level 4 professional studies content. The module aims to develop your student-teacher confidence and competence in the classroom. You will demonstrate your potential to teach whilst also making the theoretical and evidence-based links to university taught content.

Subject Knowledge in the Core Curriculum

This module introduces you to the essential content and curriculum knowledge required to teach English, mathematics, and science effectively in primary schools.

It emphasises the link between subject knowledge and statutory requirements of the National Curriculum and EYFS, supporting you in developing strong foundations for teaching these core subjects.

Pedagogical Knowledge in the Core Curriculum

This module introduces you to the essential pedagogical knowledge, alongside the professional attitudes required to teach English, mathematics, and science effectively in primary schools.

It emphasises the interplay between subject knowledge, pedagogy, and statutory requirements of the National Curriculum and EYFS, supporting you in developing strong foundations for teaching these core subjects.

The module fosters an understanding of inclusive approaches, effective strategies for reading, writing, mathematical reasoning, and investigative science, while highlighting the importance of linking research to classroom practice.

Creativity, Movement and Design 1

This module brings together Design and Technology, Computing, Art, Music and Physical Education, introducing you to the national curriculum for these subjects and exploring both their unique nature and shared focus on purposeful activity, embodied learning and problem‑solving.

It explores how logical thinking, physical movement and material or digital making underpin learning across these subjects, enabling children to plan, design, perform, compose, construct and reflect.

You will examine existing materials, including subject organisation information and apply subject‑specific and cross-disciplinary pedagogies that emphasise experimentation, sequencing, iteration and expression, considering how knowledge, skills and creativity develop through doing.

Through practical, reflective and collaborative approaches, the module supports you in designing inclusive, coherent learning experiences that foreground process as well as outcomes.

Understanding the World, Communities and Culture 1

This module brings together PSHE, E‑safety, Religious Education, Foreign Languages, Geography, Citizenship and History, introducing you to the national curriculum for these subjects and exploring both their unique nature and shared focus on how meaning, identity and understanding are shaped and communicated across time, place and communities.

The module explores how pupils learn to express ideas, values and beliefs, engage respectfully with difference, and interpret the world through language, digital spaces, and cultural narratives.

You will focus on the pedagogies distinctive to and shared across these subjects, including dialogue‑based learning, enquiry, critical thinking and ethical reflection.

Through exploration of existing materials, including subject organisation information, practical application and reflective study, the module supports you in designing inclusive learning experiences that promote intercultural understanding, responsible participation and effective communication in an increasingly complex and connected world.

The Inclusive Classroom

This module aims to enable you to develop and refine your understanding of the principles of equality and inclusivity. This understanding can then be applied to the primary classroom. You will explore key legislation, critically reflect on effective practice and consider the multiple barriers that children can face as they move through their primary schooling. Key concepts, such as ‘intersectionality’ will be explored within the context of current thinking and practice in primary schools.

This module embeds the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by equipping students to integrate sustainability principles, critical awareness, and responsible practice within their teaching and professional contexts. 

Progression in the Core Curriculum

This module builds upon the foundational knowledge acquired in Year One across English, Mathematics, and Science. It is designed to deepen your knowledge, enabling you to plan and teach effective sequences of lessons in these core subjects. 

Taking an inspirational, aspirational and motivational approach to planning, you will consider how access to rich learning environments and resources can enhance learning.

With high expectations for all, you will consider how to achieve progression through core curriculum subjects, enabling pupils to master key concepts.

Adaptive Teaching in the Core Curriculum 

This module integrates English, Mathematics, and Science to develop your ability to plan and deliver adaptive teaching across the primary curriculum. Building on foundational subject knowledge, the module focuses on how teachers can respond effectively to diverse learner needs, ensuring equitable access to high-quality learning experiences. 

You will deepen your understanding of progression within and across these subjects. You will also learn how to adapt curriculum content, pedagogy, and assessment to support pupils with varying prior knowledge, abilities, and backgrounds. Emphasis will be placed on using diagnostic assessment, flexible grouping, scaffolding, and evidence-informed approaches to adaptive teaching. 

By the end of the module, you will be able to articulate a coherent approach to adaptive teaching across English, Mathematics, and Science, grounded in professional knowledge, research evidence, and reflective practice. 

This module embeds the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by equipping students to integrate sustainability principles, critical awareness, and responsible practice within their teaching and professional contexts. 

Professional Language and Practice

This module is designed to develop your understanding of the relationship between quality first teaching and pupil outcomes. It builds upon previous professional studies modules. You will also develop your understanding of the centrality of language as a tool for behaviour, pedagogy, assessment and professional behaviours.

The link between theory and practice will be foregrounded as you use key research ideas from the module to reflect upon your own and others’ teaching.

Creativity, Movement and Design 2

This module extends your understanding of Design and Technology, Computing, Art, Music and Physical Education by deepening your engagement with the pedagogies that shape learning across these subjects.

Building on first‑year foundations, the module focuses on curriculum design and progression and examines how logical structures, embodied cognition and creative production can be deliberately planned for and evaluated over time.

You will critically explore how subject knowledge, disciplinary practices and cross‑curricular connections are enacted in diverse school contexts, with particular attention to inclusion, adaptation and challenge.

Through analysis of research, reflective practice and advanced practical application, the module supports you in making informed pedagogical choices that foster purposeful movement, creative making and increasingly sophisticated thinking in primary classrooms

Understanding the World, Communities and Culture 2

This module deepens your engagement with PSHE, E‑safety, Religious Education, Foreign Languages, Geography, Citizenship and History by focusing on curriculum coherence, progression and informed pedagogical decision‑making.

Building on first‑year foundations, the module examines how concepts such as identity, belief, place, language, citizenship and digital participation are sequenced meaningfully across year groups to support cumulative learning and increasingly sophisticated understanding.

You will critically explore subject‑specific and cross‑disciplinary pedagogies, including dialogic teaching, enquiry‑based learning and ethical discussion, considering how communication and cultural understanding develop over time.

Through engagement with research, curriculum documentation and reflective practice, the module supports you in designing, justifying and evaluating inclusive curricula that enable pupils to interpret the past and present, communicate effectively and participate thoughtfully in diverse and evolving communities.

School Experience 2

You will complete whole class teaching for a range of primary subjects across this placement.  You will be expected to plan for, assess and evaluate your lessons as you develop your skills as a teacher.

By the end of this placement, you will be regularly planning for and teaching the whole class, carefully reflecting upon your practice to identify the way in which your teaching skills are developing and the impact of your teaching upon the pupils learning experiences.

During the course of the placement, you will have to demonstrate a competent level of subject and pedagogical knowledge with respect to the subjects you teach. You must also demonstrate an awareness of inclusion issues and begin to demonstrate an ability to plan and assess for a range of needs in the classroom (as appropriate to the placement).

Professionalism in Teaching

This module aims to develop you as a professional and consider your own professional values, attitudes, behaviours and approaches within the current educational landscape.

In this module, you will develop a critical approach when considering what is needed to support teachers to become effective professionals.

You will analyse what it means to engender appropriate pedagogies and classroom cultures in school within national and local frameworks.

You will analyse how teachers are part of a community where thinking about curriculum, pedagogy and assessment is essential. You will also analyse the key aspects of social justice education that reflect teachers’ positions as professionals.

Professional Enrichment

This module aims to provide contexts in which you will develop your skills and confidence in your professional world. To do so, it aims to engage you in effective professional development within an area of interest relevant to education.

You will hone your skills and develop your knowledge, including transferable skills in preparation for the dynamic workplace, such as project management, organisation and communication skills. 

Education for Global Citizenship

This module builds on the principles of social justice and the global dimension met through other modules.

It aims to support you in understanding the relationship between global issues and the role of education in helping children make sense of these. In doing so, it will draw upon curriculum outcomes, statutory guidance and non-statutory guidance / ambitious objectives from international, national and local frameworks (e.g. UN Sustainable Development Goals as a framework for analysing global challenges such as poverty, climate change, inequality, and education access through activities such as considering how to design inclusive curricula and evaluating access to education).  

You will also refine your understanding of social justice and injustice, equality and diversity and realise the interconnected nature of local and global policies, actions and events (inc. those that are natural, political, and social).

School Experience 3

On this school placement, you will take on the responsibilities associated with being a class teacher.  You will plan, teach, evaluate, assess and monitor pupils’ progress in a range of subjects.

You should plan, teach, evaluate and assess those foundation subjects (prioritising those not taught previously) as well as the core curriculum.

You will be required to evaluate progress and set personal targets with the mentor. You are expected to demonstrate a high level of competence and, by the end, independence in your practice.

You should be fully aware of the requirements of National Curriculum and EYFS, national assessment requirements and the characteristics of progression across year groups.

In order to pass this module, you will be expected to demonstrate that you meet the statutory outcomes for completing QTS as set by the government.

Independent Project

This module aims to provide a context in which you can broaden and deepen your knowledge and understanding of an educational topic as well as the importance of research within educational contexts.

Areas of interest will be identified, developed and refined into a research project. During this process, you will be provided with guidance and support to raise awareness of different approaches to the investigation and presentation of your project.

Subject Study 1: Enrichment Through English

This module will build on what you have already learnt about English from the compulsory modules of the programme.

You will develop a deeper understanding of the ways that pedagogy and curriculum can be enriched through a critical understanding of contemporary, research-informed practice in English.  

You will also engage with current research reports, debates and good practice to explore specific aspects of English and in doing so, reflect on how primary schooling can be enriched through this deeper understanding.

Subject Study 2: Promoting Best Principles in English

This module will build on what you have already learnt about English from the compulsory modules of the programme and the first semester subject study module.

You will grow in confidence to become an advocate for the best principles of English in primary schools. 

You will also critically reflect on your positionality as a teacher and explore the importance of English in primary schools. In so doing, you will consider where and how your area of interest fits into school frameworks and policy.

Whilst this module is not about becoming a subject co-ordinator, the importance of leadership values and attributes will be explored through the context of English.