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LIVERPOOL HOPE UNIVERSIT Y
BA PRIMARY
TEACHING
(QTS)
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OFEDUCATION
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YOUR FUTURE
STARTS WITH HOPE
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BA Primary Teaching with Qualified
Teacher Status (QTS) Fact File
Faculty: and Literacy Skills Tests as part of the
application process. You must ensure you
Education
have passed them both before the start of
Campus Location: the course.
Hope Park Duration:
Entry Requirements: Four years
The standard offer level is between 260 You may also be interested in:
- 300 UCAS points from A2 Levels or
equivalent. In addition applicants will require • Childhood and Youth
a GCSE Grade C or above (or equivalent) • Early Childhood
in English, Mathematics and Science. • Education
Applicants must have undertaken recent • Special Educational Needs
school experience in a primary school. Offers Contact Details:
will be subject to a successful interview, as
Student Recruitment
well as a Health Check Statement and an
Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure +44 (0) 151 291 3111
Barring Service. It is also a government enquiry@hope.ac.uk
requirement that you take the Numeracy
Course Combinations:
Primary Teaching with Biology UCAS code XC1C
Primary Teaching with Christian Theology UCAS code XV61
Primary Teaching with Early Childhood UCAS code X1XH
Primary Teaching with English Language UCAS code X1QJ
Primary Teaching with English Literature UCAS code X1QH
Primary Teaching with Geography UCAS code X1L7
Primary Teaching with History UCAS code X1VD
Primary Teaching with Information Technology UCAS code X1GM
Primary Teaching with Mathematics UCAS code X1GD
Primary Teaching with Modern Foreign Languages UCAS code X1R9
Primary Teaching with Music UCAS code X1WJ
Primary Teaching with Special Educational Needs UCAS code X190
Primary Teaching with Sport and Physical Education UCAS code X1CP
Primary Teaching with World Religions UCAS code XV1P
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Course Introduction
Our unique four year degree equips you with There are opportunities for you to travel to
the depth of knowledge, skills and North America or Europe as part of our
understanding required to become an Student Teacher Exchange Programme and
outstanding Primary Teacher. You will be short two week placements organised by the
given a range of opportunities to gain Faculty of Education.
significant experience teaching in a wide
The Faculty is based in the custom-designed
range of our partner schools.
EDEN Building, which offers the latest in
The course allows you to combine your teaching technologies.
teacher training with two years of study of a
This is now the third century in which
specialist subject, such as Special
Liverpool Hope has been educating and
Educational Needs or Mathematics. This
training teachers. Its founding colleges were
enables you to develop the knowledge and
among the first in the country to educate
understanding of a particular subject at
elementary school mistresses. Initial teacher
undergraduate level.
education and training continues to be
Alongside Professional Placement Learning central to Liverpool Hope’s mission and the
in schools, you will study two strands that formation of the ‘Hope Teacher’ has been
run parallel throughout each year of the celebrated in our latest OFSTED report.
degree programme:
• Initial Professional Development: based
around the four themes of Holistic
Learning and Development; Inclusion and
Diversity; The Child in Society; and
Leadership and Management
• Subject Knowledge, Curriculum and
Pedagogy: includes training on how to
plan and teach all subjects in the
Primary Curriculum
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What you will study
Level C (Year One) Level I (Year Two)
Initial Professional Development Initial Professional Development
Theme: Holistic Learning and Development Theme: Holistic Learning and Development
• Key theories of child development • Effective learning environments
• Predominant theories of learning in the Theme: The Child in Society
21st Century • The role of the teacher in a historical
Theme: Inclusion and Diversity context, changing ideas of childhood
• Contemporary perspectives on Special Theme: Leadership and Management
Education Needs / Disability • Theories of effective classroom and
Theme: The Child in Society behaviour management
• Themes and concepts in the sociology of Subject Knowledge, Curriculum
education such as race, class, gender and and Pedagogy
the hidden curriculum
• English, Mathematics, Science and
Subject Knowledge and Pedagogy Computing for Primary Teaching
• English, Mathematics, Science and • Primary Teaching of Foundation Subjects,
Computing for Primary Teaching MFL and RE
• Primary Teaching of Foundation Subjects, • Identifying and planning to address
Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) and children’s misconceptions
Religious Education (RE) • Short and medium term planning
• Introduction to the requirements of the • Assessment for Learning (AfL)
Primary Curriculum from the Foundation
Subject Specialism
Stage through to the beginning of Key
Stage Three. • Explorations in your subject
• Subject knowledge and skills in all subjects specialism (see subject information
for further details)
Subject Specialism
• Foundations in your subject
specialism (see subject information
for further details)
4Level H (Year Three) Level H (Year Four)
Initial Professional Development Initial Professional Development
Theme: Holistic Learning and Development • Current issues, pertinent to initial and
• Different notions / purposes of education continuing professional development eg using
data on pupils progress to inform planning
Theme: Leadership and Management
• Action planning for improving teaching, Subject Knowledge, Curriculum
assessment and achievement for and Pedagogy
individuals and groups
• English, Mathematics, Science and
Subject Knowledge, Curriculum Computing for Primary Teaching
and Pedagogy • Outstanding teaching, learning
• English, Mathematics, Science and and assessment
Computing for Primary Teaching • Theoretical underpinning and associated
• Critical reflection on key national policy and guidelines. Education
theories, associated research and Theory and Practice
teaching strategies • The nature and evolving purposes of
• Planning for personalising learning teaching and learning in the 21st Century
and progression • Historical development of key
learning theories
Wider Perspectives in Education
• Theoretical foundations of contemporary
• Global citizenship and international teaching and learning initiatives
education, global learning,
comparative education Subject Leader
• Factors that affect learning processes • Case studies of teaching and learning
including learners’ social, cultural, initiatives from local, national and
linguistic, religious and ethnic backgrounds international contexts
• Teaching pupils with English as an • Learning theories and their application in
Additional Language practice relevant to their subject specialism
Creativity in the Curriculum
• Developing creativity in the Primary
Curriculum across the Foundation
Subjects, MFL and RE
• Strategies for developing children’s
creative thinking
• Innovative practice including use of ICT
5Employability and Career Opportunities
88% of Primary Teaching with QTS Liverpool application of the specialist subject through
Hope students graduating in 2014 are other components of the degree (including
currently in teaching positions. professional placement learning) and how this
can be applied to meet the learning needs
‘Headteachers recognise ‘the Hope Teacher’
of children across the primary age range.
as one who shows resilience, resolve, works
The degree includes 60 credits at Masters
hard and gives of themselves to help others’
level – this is one third of a Masters degree.
OFSTED Report (January 2014) A newly validated MEd/MA in Professional
Practice offers the opportunity to continue
You will complete placements in each year
studying during the NQT year and beyond,
of study. This enables you to gain broad
well supported by tutors and drawing on your
experience teaching across the Primary age
teaching experiences.
range. Following successful completion of the
programme, you will be recommended for All of our graduates are enrolled upon a
Qualified Teacher Status. Students become Newly Qualified Teachers (NQT) Professional
teachers in a variety of school settings, ranging Development Programme that includes a
from those within our local partnerships to series of NQT Professional Development
International Schools abroad. The final year Days, and will support you through the first
of the degree includes a ‘Subject Leader’ year of teaching.
qualification that enables you to draw upon
your specialist subject to inform your role as
future leaders in the Primary School. Indeed,
you will have the opportunity to consider the
6Why study this subject at Liverpool Hope?
• In an exit-survey of our students • Our partner schools are involved with the
graduating in 2014: training at the University, for example
children come to our Hope Park campus
- 99% of students said the overall quality
for ‘micro-teaching’ sessions in English and
of their teacher training at Liverpool
Mathematics led by BA QTS students.
Hope was very good or good
• Students are encouraged to participate
- 96% of students said the Primary English
in short two-week placements in schools
training was very good or good
in a range of countries including Norway,
- 98% felt confident to teach reading in France, Spain and the USA. Students
primary school learn not only about the education
system in the country of study but are
- 98% of students said the Primary
also able to compare this to the English
Mathematics training was very good
education system. Some students may
or good
elect to spend half of their third year in a
• ‘Retention, completion and employment higher educational institution abroad. For
rates have risen to above average and example, students can elect to study in
trainees’ confidence in their training is America where Liverpool Hope has several
at an all-time high’ (OFSTED Report, long-established relationships, or through
January 2014). the ERASMUS programme.
7Graduate and Student Feedback
Danielle Kavanagh Laura Tilsley
“I chose to study at Liverpool Hope because “The support I received not just from
of the great facilities on campus and the the class teacher and mentor, but from
fantastic opportunities the course has to the whole staff, helped me to progress
offer. Whilst completing my degree in into a newly qualified teacher. They all
Primary Teaching with QTS, I have had many wanted me to succeed in my final placement.
successful teaching placements. This has I am very grateful that the school has now
provided me with further opportunities such offered me my first teaching position.”
as supply work in partner schools and a
teaching job in my subject specialism Kellie Williams
beginning in September.” “The course at Liverpool Hope laid the
foundations that have helped shape me into
Roger Watson
the teacher that I am today. The University
“I am a mature student who has studied at had extremely high standards in us as
university before. The main distinction students and I feel that it equipped me so
between Hope and my previous university well for life as a professional teacher. Hope
experience is that the tutors here really care helped me prepare for interview processes
about their students and do their utmost to and also organising a professional portfolio,
support you in achieving your degree. I have all of which stood me in good stead for
thoroughly enjoyed my time here studying getting a job in a fantastic school back
and I am glad I made the right choice.” home in Wales.”
8Academic Staff Profiles
Michelle Pearson, Head of Primary Colin Wong,
Initial Teacher Education Senior Lecturer
Michelle Pearson is currently the Curriculum Colin is currently working at
Co-ordinator and Subject Leader for Primary Liverpool Hope University
English, teaching many aspects of the as a Senior Lecturer with
undergraduate curriculum and Postgraduate additional responsibility as
Certificate in Education. She is an expert Programme Manager for the
in Phonics and assessment in English with part-time Primary PGCE course; Faculty
her research into ‘subject knowledge and Senior Academic Adviser; and Head of Final
pedagogy in phonics’ and ‘the teaching of Year Undergraduate Initial Teacher Education
early Reading.’ Her other research interests (Professional Placements).
are ’tablet technology and Standard
He has wide teaching experience covering
English.’ She has a wide range of teaching
Foundation Stage, Key Stage One-Two,
experience, across a number of education
Foundation Degree, Undergraduate,
sectors, is a qualified Head Teacher and is
Postgraduate and Continuing Professional
a member of the United Kingdom Literacy
Development. Previous commitments
Association.
have included experience as an External
Yvonne Ward, Consultant to Edge Hill University, Ormskirk;
Newman University College, Birmingham;
Senior Professional
University of Cumbria, Lancaster and
Tutor University of Derby. He has also participated
Yvonne Ward is a Senior international education-related activities
Professional Tutor (Primary in Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai
Mathematics); she co- and Milwaukee. Colin first trained as an
ordinates the BA QTS Additional Inspector for Ofsted inspections
Primary Mathematics Team, teaching on of schools in 2004. He is currently
both the undergraduate and postgraduate undertaking doctoral studies at MMU.
programmes. Yvonne is a recent primary
Deputy Head Teacher having many years’
experience teaching in both community and
faith schools. During her career Yvonne
was a Local Authority Advisory Teacher
and also a Leading Mathematics Teacher.
She is a marker for the Key Stage Two
National Curriculum Mathematics tests and
is also a community governor. She holds an
MA in Education and Leadership, NCSL’s
Leadership Pathways and the CCCRS
qualifications.
9Mahnaz Siddiqui, staff development programmes for Liverpool
Lecturer secondary schools.
Mahnaz Siddiqui is currently Sarah holds Charted Science Teacher
a Lecturer in Education status (CSciTeach) and is a member of the
(Primary Mathematics). Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors
She has been teaching on (CIEA); the Association for Achievement and
Teacher Education courses Improvement through Assessment (AAIA);
at Liverpool Hope for ten years, and Association for Science Education (ASE);
previously taught in the primary sector for and the National Advisors and Inspectors
nine years. Mahnaz’s expertise in primary Group for Science (NAIGS).
mathematics developed as a co-ordinator Anne James, Lecturer
in school and she continues to engage in
mathematics research as part of her CPD Anne is Co-ordinator of
and EdD study. Mahnaz has had a variety Arts and Humanities and a
of roles including: Year Head for final year Lecturer in Music Education
students, Lead Member of the primary in the Education Faculty.
mathematics team, and Seminar Tutor Before coming to Hope
for all year groups. This year Mahnaz has she was a music teacher in
led and managed a final year curriculum a variety of settings including a grammar
element, mathematics provision for PGCEs school, large comprehensive school and
and undergraduates Levels C and I, and Young Offenders Institute. She was also
been responsible for Levels I and H seminar Head of Music and Director for Learning
groups. She is a member of the FHEA in Expressive Arts in two North West
and studying for a Doctorate in Education secondary schools. Anne is a member of the
(Mathematics Education Research). National Association of Music Educators and
Dr Sarah Askey, a committee member of BASBWE (British
Association of Symphonic Bands and Wind
Lecturer Ensembles) and she conducts the Liverpool
Sarah has 13 years teaching Hope University Concert Band. Anne is
and leadership experience currently researching into Primary music
in secondary schools and education for her Educational Doctorate.
before joining Hope in March
2012, she was a Teaching
and Learning Adviser for Trafford. She has
a keen interest in assessment and was
involved in the development of Assessing
Pupils’ Progress materials for the National
Strategies. Sarah is lead science and
chemistry subject expert for the qualifications
regulator Ofqual, and is currently advising
on the new GCSE and A Level reforms.
She teaches across both Primary and
Secondary courses and provides bespoke
10Dr Bernie Hughes, Felicity Ackroyd, PGCE
Lecturer Lead and Primary
Dr Bernie Hughes is a Mathematics Tutor
Lecturer in Education Felicity has taught as a
(Modern Foreign Languages). primary school teacher
She is currently the Co- for 13 years with senior
ordinator of MFL, teaching management experience
many aspects of the undergraduate as Deputy Head and KS2 Leader, as
curriculum and postgraduate courses well as curriculum leadership expertise in
in Education. She is a specialist in both Mathematics and History. She has taught
languages and theatre and also has Masters in both the mainstream and independent
degrees in both Theatre Studies and sectors, including boarding, faith and single
Screenwriting. Her research has been in the sex schools, and is a very creative teacher.
use of audiovisual media in language learning, She is a SATs marker and a School Governor
creativity and drama in teaching and learning of a large primary school. More recently,
and she has published in relation to students’ Felicity has worked at Liverpool Hope as a
learning experiences abroad. She is also a Professional Tutor in Primary Education and is
writer, including foreign language shows for a member of the Primary Mathematics team.
the primary setting. She has collaborated with She is interested in educational management
outside organisations, including the Royal and leadership and is currently the PGCE
College of Surgeons, on dramatic scenarios Primary Lead.
for use in training. She has a wide range of
MFL and related teaching experience, in
Secondary School, Primary School and
Higher Education.
Liz Parr, School Direct
Lead
Liz Parr is the School Direct
Lead and co-ordinates
the academic training
programme for our School
Direct Partners. Liz is a
recent primary school teacher joining the
team in April 2013 after teaching in a variety
of schools in Manchester and Europe. Liz is
an eminent researcher engaged in research
around professional perceptions towards
community-oriented schools. Liz supports the
development and delivery of the BA (QTS)
English curriculum.
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