Primary Education (5-11) with QTS
Bath Spa University
UCAS Code: QED1 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Bath Spa University
UCAS Code: QED1 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
A level grade BBB to BBC preferred
Access to HE Diploma
Access to HE courses – typical offers for applicants with Access to HE will be the Access to HE Diploma or Access to HE Certificate (60 credits, 45 of which must be Level 3, at Merit or higher).
GCSE/National 4/National 5
You'll also need GCSE passes at grade 4/C or above (or recognised equivalents) in English and Mathematics and a Science subject.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
A minimum of 32 points are required.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
BTEC – Extended Diploma grades from Distinction Distinction Merit (DDM) to Distinction Merit Merit (DMM) accepted in any subject.
T Level
T Levels – grade Merit preferred.
UCAS Tariff
We've calculated how many Ucas points you'll need for this course.
You may also need to…
Attend an interview
About this course
**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.
Modules
**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.
Assessment methods
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.
Tuition fees
Select where you currently live to see what you'll pay:
The Uni
Bath Spa University
School of Education
What students say
We've crunched the numbers to see if the overall teaching satisfaction score here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.
How do students rate their degree experience?
The stats below relate to the general subject area/s at this university, not this specific course. We show this where there isn’t enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.
Teacher training
Teaching and learning
Assessment and feedback
Resources and organisation
Student voice
Who studies this subject and how do they get on?
Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)
After graduation
The stats in this section relate to the general subject area/s at this university – not this specific course. We show this where there isn't enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.
Teacher training
What are graduates doing after six months?
This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.
Top job areas of graduates
The stats above mainly cover teaching degrees for training and qualifying in primary school education. These tend to be three or four-year courses — check with course tutors about how long you will need to study to get your Qualified Teacher Status. Most graduates go into teaching roles — usually primary school teaching, so these courses have good employment rates and starting salaries. We have a shortage of teachers of all kinds, which is deepening, and whilst many of the most severe are at secondary level, the prospects for this degree are not likely to take a downturn any time soon.
What about your long term prospects?
Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.
Teacher training
The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.
£18k
£25k
£26k
Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.
Explore these similar courses...
Higher entry requirements
Lower entry requirements
Nearby UniversitySame UniversityThis is what the university has told Ucas about the criteria they expect applicants to satisfy; some may be compulsory, others may be preferable.
Have a question about this info? Learn more here
This is the percentage of applicants to this course who received an offer last year, through Ucas.
Have a question about this info? Learn more here
This is what the university has told Ucas about the course. Use it to get a quick idea about what makes it unique compared to similar courses, elsewhere.
Have a question about this info? Learn more here
Course location and department:
This is what the university has told Ucas about the course. Use it to get a quick idea about what makes it unique compared to similar courses, elsewhere.
Have a question about this info? Learn more here
Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF):
We've received this information from the Department for Education, via Ucas. This is how the university as a whole has been rated for its quality of teaching: gold silver or bronze. Note, not all universities have taken part in the TEF.
Have a question about this info? Learn more here
This information comes from the National Student Survey, an annual student survey of final-year students. You can use this to see how satisfied students studying this subject area at this university, are (not the individual course).
This is the percentage of final-year students at this university who were "definitely" or "mostly" satisfied with their course. We've analysed this figure against other universities so you can see whether this is high, medium or low.
Have a question about this info? Learn more here
This information is from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), for undergraduate students only.
You can use this to get an idea of who you might share a lecture with and how they progressed in this subject, here. It's also worth comparing typical A-level subjects and grades students achieved with the current course entry requirements; similarities or differences here could indicate how flexible (or not) a university might be.
Have a question about this info? Learn more here
Post-six month graduation stats:
This is from the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education Survey, based on responses from graduates who studied the same subject area here.
It offers a snapshot of what grads went on to do six months later, what they were earning on average, and whether they felt their degree helped them obtain a 'graduate role'. We calculate a mean rating to indicate if this is high, medium or low compared to other universities.
Have a question about this info? Learn more here
Graduate field commentary:
The Higher Education Careers Services Unit have provided some further context for all graduates in this subject area, including details that numbers alone might not show
Have a question about this info? Learn more here
The Longitudinal Educational Outcomes dataset combines HRMC earnings data with student records from the Higher Education Statistics Agency.
While there are lots of factors at play when it comes to your future earnings, use this as a rough timeline of what graduates in this subject area were earning on average one, three and five years later. Can you see a steady increase in salary, or did grads need some experience under their belt before seeing a nice bump up in their pay packet?
Have a question about this info? Learn more here
