Program Overview

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.

You’ll learn both through university-based exploration of educational theory and more hands-on classroom delivery. You’ll explore not just the why but also how children learn. You’ll think critically about research, national initiatives and classroom practice and learn how to evaluate your practice reflectively.

On the Bath Spa Primary teaching degree, we take a holistic approach to child development. You’ll explore how a child’s learning and wellbeing can be supported by the whole community, including parents and carers, families and schools. You’ll learn how to build relationships outwith the classroom to support child development.

You’ll develop a subject specialism in both a core subject (English, Maths and Science) and a foundation subject (History, Geography, Modern Foreign Languages, Art, Music, Computing, Design Technology, Physical Education, PSHE, RE).    

On this Education degree, you’ll have the opportunity to establish yourself with a community of Bath Spa researchers to explore cutting-edge questions and issues that will directly impact your future practice.