Semester One Activities
Your first week at university will be Welcome Week. This starts on Monday 26th September. During this week, we have planned some great activities for you which will help you to make new friends and get to know other people on your course. We know that students are sometimes nervous about making friends at university, but we will help you in your first few weeks, so please don’t be worried! One of the activities will be a treasure hunt around the university campus, which will help you to get to know your way around. We’ve taken pictures of our Welcome Week bears at different places around the campus and we’re going to ask you to try and recreate the pictures with your new friends. Here are the bears outside our Cadman building...
After Welcome Week, you’ll start learning about Primary Education and teaching. We’ll teach you about the National Curriculum and Early Years curriculum and how each of the subjects can be taught in a very creative, exciting way in the primary phase. In the first semester, the modules you will learn are:
Professional Studies 1 – Reflection and Professional Problem Solving
In this module, you’ll learn about what it means to be a good teacher. We will ask you to reflect about yourself and your values and you will learn how your own core values will shape your practice as a teacher.
The Primary Core Curriculum – Knowledge and Principles
In this module, you will learn about how to teach English, mathematics and science in schools to make sure that children are interested and excited to learn.
Safeguarding and Child Protection
Keeping children safe is one of the most important things that we do as teachers. This module will teach you about what happens in school to make sure children are safe and how teachers work with other agencies to do this.
In the first few weeks, you will also learn about how to write assignments at university level, which may be different to how you’ve written before, but again, don’t worry, we’ll be here to help you.