PGCE in General Primary with QTS (5 -11 years)

Ready to inspire and change the lives of Primary aged children with the learning of our acclaimed PGCE General Primary? This programme allows you to hone your skills and experience to teach engaging lessons in a primary school setting. This unique course pathway gives you the opportunity to raise children's achievements and cultivate a lifelong love of learning.

You’ll learn through a blend of theory and hands-on experience, working within the National Curriculum framework. You'll explore the concepts and key themes of Primary General, confidently devising and delivering engaging lessons to children aged 5-11 years old.

Over half the course will be spent working with children on assessed placement, with school-based enrichment activities alongside your university-based study. You'll take three placements across a variety of schools and settings, building a wealth of experience to help advance your future career.

On this course you will...

• Develop your passion for inspiring curiosity in children into a fulfilling career.
• Benefit from high-quality support from our academics and staff on a programme designed around you.
• Learn from an experienced, highly qualified programme team, working at the forefront of the academic field.
• Enjoy the intimate feel of our course delivery, with small class sizes and your own personal tutor.
• Utilise cutting edge research on a newly revalidated and up-to-date course.

This programme is focused on the two key elements that make effective practitioners. Firstly, raising the achievement of children and secondly, high-quality teaching and learning. It is these two elements together that will empower you to aspire to become outstanding teachers.

Modules

The course is structured in such a way that it scaffolds you through your learning journey in a progressive way from induction to course completion. This is done through a combination of relevant, detailed and comprehensive contributory modules which are complemented by qualificatory modules that support the development of effective classroom practice. All modules have been developed to enable you to make strong, meaningful and effective connections between theory, research and practice.

You gain the academic PGCE qualification via successful completion of two masters level modules:

• High-Quality Teaching and Learning.
• Raising the Achievement of Children.

These are focussed on the theory, research and practice which must be in place in order to be the highest quality, effective practitioner.

Year one

To support your professional learning, you will engage with modules designed to help develop your professional practice. These will cover the range of curriculum areas as well as key professional skills and attributes such as planning, behaviour management and professionalism. You will have the chance to work with subject experts. Another way in which the programme supports your understanding of the interplay between theory and practice is through the use of school embedded learning. This is characterised by time spent in schools when you are not on placement. It provides a highly valuable opportunity to learn from experienced class teachers and practitioners, to bring ideas 3 from your modules into school and to take examples from school back into your modules for discussion and reflection.

• PGCE7003 Building Professional Understanding
• PGCE7004 Enhancing Professional Practice
• PGPC9140 Learning, Teaching and Subject Pedagogy
• PGPC9130 Being a Teacher
• PGPC9150 Subject Knowledge and Pedagogy Enrichment
• PGPC9070 Cumbria Teacher of Reading
• PGPC9160 Beginning Professional Practice
• PGPC9170 Developing Professional Practice
• PGPC9180 Extending Professional Practice

We want someone who:

• Those who display a passion for children's learning.
• Aspiring teachers who can bring their own experience to the classroom setting.
• Enthusiastic and engaging communicators.
• Graduates with a 2:2 or above degree classification.
• Motivated and well-organised individuals who have strong planning skills.

This course can lead to a fulfilling career as a primary teacher, with QTS built-in to enable you to go straight into work. Nine out of 10 of our graduates go into a professional teaching career or further education within six months of graduating.