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Overview
Qualify as a primary school teacher with the knowledge and skills you need to work with younger children
Our BA (Hons) Primary Teaching with Early Years (QTS) course provides quality training to teach in the 3-7 age range (Nursery, Reception and Key Stages 1) enabling you to graduate as a qualified teacher at the end of your three-year degree.
Learn the art of teaching
You will develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes required by the teaching profession, as you learn the fundamentals of the national curriculum to fully prepare you for working in primary schools alongside student teachers working on BA (Hons) Primary Teaching.
In addition, you will pursue the advanced study of Early Years, where you will develop deeper knowledge and understanding of pedagogy and practice for teaching younger pupils and how this relates to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework.
As a key part of the programme, you will gain vital hands-on experience of working within the classroom through our school experience modules, which develop your confidence and competence to teach effectively.
Proud history of teacher training
The University of Chichester has been training teachers for over 180 years and we look to train employable professionals who will make a positive difference to children’s education.
You will be taught by experienced primary education specialists and our dedication to small teaching groups allows you to develop strong professional relationships with the University teaching team.
On this course you will:
- Gain Qualified Teacher Status that will allow you to teach in primary schools in England and Wales.
- Develop your competence and confidence working within the classroom environment.
- Gain the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required by the teaching profession.
- Understand the cornerstone of the national curriculum for primary education, as well as un understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum.
The Course
Learn how to make a difference for children in this crucial stage of their development
As a Primary Teaching with Early Years student, you will learn the early years framework and national curriculum and how to deliver it to young children in exciting and engaging ways.
You will learn the fundamentals of teaching English, Maths and Science, as well as the key theories of learning development to better understand how to ensure that all children can succeed and thrive in school. You will also learn about the key issues in primary teaching through our professional studies modules.
You will also learn how to teach subjects that form the wider curriculum, including aspects of ICT/Computing, PE, Modern Foreign Languages, Music, Art, History, and Geography.
As an Early Years student teacher, you will complete a suite of modules in the advanced study of Early Years enabling you to be awarded a BA (Hons) Primary Teaching with Early Years degree.
Our suite of on campus modules is complemented by modules that will take you into school where you will practise as a student teacher.
Curriculum studies
As part of the programme, you will study curriculum modules that develop your pedagogic and subject knowledge within these areas.
Modules explore each subject within the core curriculum (English, Mathematics and Science), alongside modules that look at the wider curriculum (music, physical education, art etc.) to provide you with a thorough grounding in the full National Curriculum.
The course will equip you to take a critical and reflective view of each subject’s curriculum and pedagogies. You will develop a detailed understanding of the distinctive features of each subject area and explore relevant research concerning children’s learning in that subject.
By linking your learning to school experience, the module will promote the necessary understanding you need to plan, teach and assess the core curriculum effectively.
Professional studies
The modules of professional studies will explore the teaching skills that are required for the classroom, including behaviour for learning, planning for progression and assessing pupils effectively.
You will explore effective inclusive practice and recognise how quality first teaching can support the progress of all children.
The final professional studies module explores your position as a teacher in the contemporary educational landscape. Through this, you will develop and articulate a personal philosophy of education that has built over the three years.
Advanced Study of Early Years Subject Study
Year One
The specialism module in semester 1 provides a grounding for early years practice. It considers the principles of the EYFS, how these can be embedded in practice and their relevance to KS1 teaching and learning. A visit to an outstanding setting allows for effective theory to practice links.
Year Two
In semester 1, early years student teachers explore the topic of child development and implications for teaching practice. Semester 2 focuses on the concepts of play and pedagogy and their value and place in primary classrooms.
Year Three
Your third year allows you to investigate a topic of your choice related to early years through the final independent project.
Select a year
Becoming A Teacher of English
On this module you will openly model effective teaching and learning strategies and techniques e.g. the substantive (what to teach) syntactical (how English is done) and pedagogical (how to teach it) aspects of English.
Students will be encouraged to develop their substantive knowledge of English throughout the module.
The content of this module may differ from above in order to reflect government policy or national priorities.
Becoming A Teacher of Mathematics
This module will support students to develop their understanding of how they can provide opportunities for all learners to access mathematical learning and engage with appropriate challenge.
The content of this module may differ from above in order to reflect government policy or national priorities.
Becoming A Teacher of Science
On this module you will openly model effective teaching and learning strategies and techniques e.g. the substantive (what to teach) syntactical (how science is done) and pedagogical (how to teach it) aspects of science.
The pedagogical aspects of science teaching will be made explicit in order to support the learning of science to students who are less science-orientated.
Professional Studies: Learners and Learning
This module will enable you to develop an understanding of how learning is influenced by a diverse range of factors.
You will focus on the implications of this on the role of a teacher in areas such as:
- assessment
- behaviour management and planning inclusive
- adaptive teaching
as well as establishing a safe and stimulating learning environment.
Professional Studies: Teachers and Teaching
Foregrounding links between theory and practice, this module will enable student teachers to develop an understanding of the statutory frameworks relating to the primary curriculum and EYFS and how these can be used in planning to help ensure continuity and progression in learning.
School Experience 1: Becoming A Teacher
Preparation for this school experience will begin in University through student participation in all elements of the taught course. You will engage in practical work-based learning experiences and complete directed tasks, supported by a University-trained Mentor and Link Tutor who will guide and assess student progress.
Year 1 Foundation Curriculum – Good Foundations
This module explores active and creative teaching and learning approaches in order that student teachers understand how to engender creative responses in children.
Child Development
This module will support you to gain knowledge and understanding of a range of theories relating to the cognitive, physical, social and emotional development of children and young people. It covers key learning theorists and how their ideas have influenced pedagogy and practice.
Creative Teaching in the Wider Curriculum
In this module, you will continue to develop and apply your pedagogical understanding, subject knowledge and skills in the wider curriculum.
This module will also demonstrate how to teach in a thematic, cross-curricular manner.
Drawing upon key theoretical ideas related to pedagogy and the wider curriculum, you will analyse the opportunities and challenges associated with a cross-curricular approach to teaching the foundation subjects.
Developing Pedagogic Practice
This module is designed to develop student teachers understanding of the relationship between quality first teaching and pupil outcomes.
You will look at research into a range of pedagogies enabling them to critically reflect on their practice.
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.
Global Citizenship
This module meets the aspiration in the University of Chichester’s Vision Statement that our students should become Global Citizens. You will have the opportunity to critically engage with some of the key global issues of our time and learn to think beyond your immediate locality about how you are connected with people and environments that you may never have seen. You will examine the link between values, equality, rights and education.
Play and Pedagogy
This module aims to develop student teachers knowledge and understanding of the role and purposes of play in an educational context.
The module will consider the impact of play on children’s social, cognitive, emotional and linguistic development and the role of adults in facilitating play within different educational settings.
The focus will be on helping student teachers to develop an understanding of the pedagogical importance of play in the EY setting.
School Experience 2: Developing As A Teacher
Preparation for this school experience will begin in University through student participation in all elements of the taught course. You will engage in practical work-based learning experiences and complete directed tasks, supported by a University-trained Mentor and Link Tutor who will guide and assess student progress.
The Inclusive Classroom
This module aims to enable student teachers to understand and apply principles of equality and inclusive practice to their teaching. It will enable you to understand how to establish a classroom environment that actively promotes and provides equitable experiences for, and inclusion of, all learners.
Y2 Special Interest Placement
Preparation for this school experience will begin in University through student participation in all elements of the taught course. You will engage in practical work-based learning experiences and complete directed tasks, supported by a University-trained Mentor and Link Tutor who will guide and assess student progress.
Core Curriculum English: the Effective Teacher of English
In this final year module, you will learn to become an effective teacher of the core curriculum subject of English.
Core Curriculum Mathematics: the Effective Teacher of Mathematics
This module allows you to understand what makes an effective teacher of the core curriculum subject of Mathematics.
Core Curriculum Science: the Effective Teacher of Science
This module focuses on how to become an effective teacher of the core curriculum subject of Science.
Independent Project
This module aims to provide a context in which you can broaden and deepen your knowledge and understanding of a chosen educational topic.
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.
Professional Studies – Developing As A Professional
In order to broaden your knowledge and understanding of education, you will undertake a 10-day placement experience in an education setting of your choice.
Working within financial and welfare/risk assessment constraints as determined by the University, you will be able to choose your placement setting from a list provided by the School Partnership Office.
School Experience 4 – Developing As A Professional
In order to broaden your knowledge and understanding of education, you will undertake a 10-day placement experience in an education setting of their choice. Working within financial and welfare/risk assessment constraints as determined by the University, you will be able to choose your placement setting from a list provided by the School Partnership Office.
Wider Curriculum – Making Change Happen
This module aims to provide contexts in which student teachers develop their skills and confidence in creative problem-solving in their professional world. To do so, it aims to engage student teachers in all stages of the development of an appropriate and novel end product, from conception to completion, and to enable them to select appropriate training and other resources that are required to reach their end points.
School Placements
Gain vital experience as you develop your confidence at the heart of Early Years and Key Stage 1 classrooms
We strongly believe in giving you a range of school placement opportunities to provide distinctive and rewarding experiences to help develop your professional skills.
You will progress from planning, teaching and managing the learning of a group of children for the core curriculum (Year One) to meeting the needs of a class of pupils in all curriculum areas (Year Three). You’ll get the opportunity to practise in a school early in the course.
You will receive substantial teaching experience in schools and other settings in the following pattern:
- Year One – Four weeks for three days per week in Term One and a block of four weeks in Term Three.
- Year Two – Seven weeks plus two weeks special interest placement.
- Year Three – Ten weeks in Term Two.
These placements will usually provide distinctive opportunities in which to develop your professional and teaching skills.
In particular, efforts will be made to place you in schools with different organisational characteristics and in contrasting socio-economic catchment areas.
The special interest placement will also provide you with the experience of an alternative educational setting.
It enables you to follow an educational area of interest and extend your learning about a particular area of education, for example: working with bilingual learners, teaching in an outdoor education setting, or working in a special school.
Teaching and Assessment
Innovative teaching methods that develop your full potential as a future teacher
Teaching
We use strategies that are designed to enable you to effectively master a broad base of concepts, skills, knowledge and understanding that will inform your teaching practice.
You will join lectures and small seminars led by experienced tutors, in which discussion and debate are key to developing your knowledge and skills.
There are opportunities on campus for you to simulate real world classrooms, allowing you to become more familiar, confident and comfortable in teaching spaces ahead of your professional placements.
All of our staff have a strong background within education and use their experience to inform their teaching, as the help your development into a professional and capable teacher.
Assessment
Assessments include essays, presentations, 1:1 discussions, course work, and the creation of creative stimuli.
Classroom Resources
Over 20,000 classroom resources available to use on placement
As a Primary Teaching with Early Years student, you will gain access to our dedicated library of teaching materials.
You can find thousands of classroom resources that you can borrow to use while on placement.
From posters to books, classroom kits to DVDs, our library of resources has options for all ages and needs.
You can take resources out for up to six weeks and can be taken on placement to aid with your teaching, or help you develop your skills and confidence within our classroom environments.
All ages
Find resources that fit a variety of age ranges whether you are teaching early years, primary, or secondary aged children
Kits
Our collection of visual resources includes everything from model skeletons, fluffy toys, dress up outfits and replica war artefacts.
Posters
A wide range of posters are available on a number of topics to enhance visual displays at your school or nursery
Dual language
Discover a large selection of French and Spanish books to aid students looking to teach modern foreign languages.
Big books
Borrow a large sized book to ensure that everyone in your class can see the pictures.
Picture books
Choose from our large variety of picture books to share with your class.
Short stories and fiction
Our selection of short stories for the end of the day, or to link to a major calendar event (e.g. Christmas, Halloween). We also have a large collection of longer fiction titles.
Experience
Discover dedicated facilities that help support your learning
Classroom resources
Discover over 20,000 classroom resources available to use on your placements and to support your academic learning.
University of Chichester Academy Trust
Utilise our network of 15 local schools to find work placement and future career opportunities.
Expert staff
Learn from experienced specialists in teacher training, all of whom have a background in education.
Close community
Our commitment to a friendly and close-knit student community contributes to a high degree of success for our graduates.
Learning Resource Centre
The Learning Resource centre (LRC) contains the library, a café, IT/teaching rooms, and the Student Information Zone (SIZ).
Library
Our campus library holds more than 200,000 books and over 500,000 eBooks.
Subject specific librarians
If you have difficulty finding material for an essay, seminar or project, subject librarians will be happy to provide assistance.
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Study Abroad
Explore the opportunity to study part of your course abroad
As a student at the University of Chichester, you can explore opportunities to study abroad during your studies as you enrich and broaden your educational experiences.
Students who have undertaken this in the past have found it to be an amazing experience to broaden their horizons, a great opportunity to meet new people, undertake further travelling and to immerse themselves within a new culture.
You will be fully supported throughout the process to help find the right destination institution for you and your course. We can take you through everything that you will need to consider, from visas to financial support, to help ensure that you can get the best out of your time studying abroad.
Careers
Take the first steps towards your career within primary education
We expect that our Primary Teaching graduates will have a desire to pursue a career with an early years focus, with 98% of our graduates in employment or further study within fifteen months of completing the course (Discover Uni 2021).
This course aims to ensure that you will be well placed to further your career in education through leading year groups and subjects, as well as joining senior leadership team.
Alumni have also progressed into headship, consultancy roles, initial teacher training lecturing and more.
Postgraduate pathways
- MA Education
- MA in Inclusive Special Education
- PGCiPP: Workplace Learning Development
Course Costs
Course fees 2023/24
UK fee
International fee
For further details about fees, please see our Tuition Fees page.
For further details about international scholarships, please see our Scholarships page.
To find out about any additional costs on this course, please see our Additional Costs page.
Course specific costs
You will be required to have a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check costing £40 which needs to be paid for before the start of the course.
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Entry Requirements
UCAS
GCSEs
A Levels
T Level
BTEC
IB
Access to HE Diploma
IELTS
CACHE Technical Level 3
- We will consider applicants who are taking the relevant GCSEs whilst applying.
- We would normally expect applicants to have taken and passed the full GCSE course, however in some circumstances we do accept equivalent qualifications or equivalency tests. Please note, however, that we are unable to accept Level 2 Functional Skills courses that do not cover the full breadth of a GCSE. If you are unable to enrol for the full GCSE course, please contact Admissions to discuss which equivalent qualification we may accept.
Interview and DBS
Secondary Teacher training applicants are required to have an enhanced Disclosure Barring Service check which needs to be paid for before the start of the course.
This course also requires you to attend an interview as part of the application process.
This gives our staff a chance to meet you, as well as giving you the opportunity for a campus tour and ask any questions you might have.
The interview is designed to assess the applicant’s suitability for the teaching profession, as well as academic ability.
All applicants will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of professional requirements and an awareness of current educational issues.
Cost incurred during placements
Over the duration of your course, you will spend 24 weeks on placement.
These school experiences are organised in our partnership schools which extend across East & West Sussex, Hampshire and Isle of Wight and into Surrey.
Travel to placements, which can be by car or public transport, varies but your commute will not usually exceed an hour from your term-time address to the placement school (assuming your term-time address is within our partnership area).
Students may receive a contribution towards travel costs depending upon the distance.
Whilst on School Experience appropriate professional dress will be required.
Students may wish to purchase a laptop/tablet to use whilst on school experience as schools are not required to provide these.
A satisfactory occupational health assessment is required.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
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