Primary Education (5-11) with QTS

This Primary Education with QTS degree course will give you the essential knowledge, skills and confidence that you’ll need to shine in the classroom and leads to the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).

• Co-created and co-delivered with members of our network of 400 local schools.

• Develop not one but two subject specialisms, making you highly employable at the end of the course.

• You'll be fully supported by academic tutors and school-based mentors.

A Bath Spa teaching degree is hands-on from the outset. From your first year, you’ll be in schools, having a positive impact on the children in your classroom.

You’ll gain experience in three different schools and settings with children from a diversity of cultural backgrounds and across the spectrum of needs.

You’ll develop your practice according to your skillset and passions. Our innovative Primary Education degree with QTS encourages you to develop subject specialisms whilst also giving you a thorough understanding of the complete curriculum. In short, you’ll graduate as both a generalist and a specialist, making you highly employable.

This course is accredited by the Department for Education and prepares you for a career as a primary school teacher. Successful completion leads to recommendation for Qualified Teacher Status, a qualification required to teach in many primary and special schools in England.

You'll learn from experts at an institution with over 75 years of experience and a reputation for producing outstanding teachers. You'll receive support from a network of experienced colleagues and school-based experts. They'll collaborate closely with your academic tutor to offer comprehensive support.

With mentoring and practice, you'll improve creative thinking and problem-solving skills to become a well-rounded reflective practitioner.

If you have a passion for learning and want to inspire the next generation, teaching could be the career for you. Our BA Primary Education with QTS degree is designed to enable you to become a qualified, passionate Primary teacher of pupils aged five to eleven years old.

Year one: Introduction and starting to teach.

You’ll be introduced to all subjects of the Primary curriculum, both core and foundation. You’ll begin to learn about professional practice, including curriculum, assessment and approaches to teaching and learning.

You’ll start to develop the necessary skills and behaviours for successful classroom delivery. In addition to several weeks structured classroom-based practice, you’ll spend two weeks in schools doing things like intense observations and learning how to adapt best practice.

Year two: Development and practice.

You’ll develop a deeper understanding of the curriculum and approaches to teaching and learning.

You’ll increase your teaching toolkit by learning how to plan, assess and support the diverse needs of children in the classroom.

Your second-year placement will give you an opportunity to embed your practice and take greater ownership of teaching and learning in your placement class. Our intensive weeks will focus on assessment and supporting child language development.

Year three: Specialism and consolidation.

You'll learn more about teaching and assessment methods, and focus on developing your specialism in two subjects - one core and one foundation.

You’ll get the opportunity to work alongside active researchers to develop specialist knowledge in your chosen core subject.

An extended placement in Semester 2 will support you in developing and extending your practice in preparation for future employment as an Early Career Teacher. The longer nature of the final placement, which is designed to enable full achievement of QTS, means that your final semester will end towards the end of June.

You'll be assessed using various tasks and coursework. These may include portfolios, evidence of school-based practice, posters, reports, presentations, and quizzes to test your subject knowledge.

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Primary