Early Years: Teaching BA(Hons) top-up

Why choose this course?

This one-year course offers progression to a BA(Hons) in Early Years Teaching for those who already have a foundation degree in Early Years, or equivalent. Designed for practitioners who wish to lead curriculum practice and progress towards QTS and/or EYPS, it balances theory and practical subjects through a wide range of rewarding learning experiences.

What will you study?

The course covers the following areas:

• The National Primary Strategy, which places a special focus on creativity
• How children learn and develop through play
• Transition from Foundation Stage to Key Stage 1
• Common Core of Skills and Knowledge (2010)
• Aspects of management, current issues in education and multidisciplinary working
• The opportunity to research and develop a particular area of interest
• Progression in the Core Curriculum
• Assessment for Learning
• Creativity across the Curriculum
• Critical Issues
• Extended long study focusing on an issue directly related to the workplace, with theoretical and practical underpinning

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Year 1

• Foundation degree

Year 2

• Foundation degree continued

Year 3

• Progression in the Core Curriculum
• Assessment for Learning
• Creativity Across the Curriculum
• Critical Issues for Curriculum Leaders
• Learning Environments
• Continuity through the Learning Journey
• Extended Study