Primary Education (Work-Based Route)
BA (Hons)

Year one

• Professional Studies - Part One: Professional Values and Practice Core

Professional Studies - Part One: Professional Values and Practice (Core)

This module gives you knowledge and understanding of professional values and practice such as SEN, behaviour management, inclusion, and safeguarding, and lesson planning, learning and assessment, and CPD.

• Learning Outside the Classroom Core

Learning Outside the Classroom (Core)

This module will provide you with an understanding of the importance of outdoor learning. You will be taught how to plan outdoor activities, carry out risk assessments and develop outside learning policy.  The module will include critical discussion of the Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto and the development of an outside learning portfolio.

• Using and Applying ICT Core

Using and Applying ICT (Core)

This module will provide you with an understanding of how to teach young children to use modern computer technology. Through weekly tasks, you will also learn the benefits of introducing children to ICT at an early age and will be provided with a grounding in the legal and ethical considerations relating to use of computers and the internet.

• Creativity in Education Core

Creativity in Education (Core)

This module provides you with an understanding of the importance of creativity in the early years curriculum. You will assess the benefits of using a creative and varied teaching style to engage your pupils, and will also learn about the cross-curricular approach to teaching in the modern primary school.

• Assessment in Practice: Research Paper Core

Assessment in Practice: Research Paper (Core)

This 40-credit module is a small-scale research study. You will focus on an education-related area of your choice and complete a methodology, Literature Review and 3,000-word report. This module is a chance for you to demonstrate your progress, passion and proficiency in an area of your choosing.