Early Years Education with Qualified Teacher Status – BA (Honours)

At a glance

Train to become a teacher in Early Years with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) on a course run in partnership with regional schools and early years settings. Throughout the course you spend time in university and on placements gaining a critical and practical perspective on all aspects of learning and teaching in the 3- 7 age phase.

Key points
• Prepare for roles in nurseries and infant and primary schools.• Gain an in-depth understanding of the policies that underpin early years learning.
• Specialise in an educational area in your second and third year.
• Develop your specialism further in your placement.

What is early years education with QTS?
This subject leads to an honours degree and the professional qualification of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) equipping you with the standards required and the necessary subject knowledge and skills to teach in the 3 - 7 age phase.

This course

Prepare for a career teaching in early years settings such as in nursery, infant and primary schools on this Qualified-Teacher-Status-(QTS) awarding course.

You build your understanding of early years education, and all areas of foundation and Key Stage 1 curriculum teaching. In particular, you develop your knowledge of teaching and learning in the early years, and key policies in early childhood education and care. This prepares you for teaching and management in foundation settings, children’s centres and infant or primary schools.

We offer the course in partnership with local and regional children’s centres and nursery and primary schools where you take your placements. This close relationship helps you to improve your employment prospects in the region after graduation. You form close professional bonds with the nursery and school teaching staff you work with and they play an important role in your teaching and assessment.

You carry out a variety of placements, which can include focussed early reading, early number and SEND placements as well as out of setting learning experiences, such as understanding how Forest Schools work.

In the first year we introduce the foundation stage curriculum and you develop your basic teaching skills.

During your second and third years you consider more complex features of effective teaching and current issues and also choose to specialise in an area of your choice.

Key areas include • providing for children with special educational needs • assessment for learning • learning across the curriculum • high quality provision • partnerships in the early years.