Primary Education with Qualified Teacher Status (Welsh medium)

Highlights

The curriculum is co-constructed, and teaching delivered, in partnership with schools selected for their excellent provision and sustained record of high-quality mentoring and involvement with teacher education. Guided by trained mentors, you will experience placements with different age ranges (three to seven, then seven to eleven) and in a wide variety of settings, including urban, rural, outdoor, mainstream and special needs. Benefit from our international expertise in leadership, learning, play, behaviour, additional learning needs, safeguarding, language acquisition, languages literacy and communication, linguistics, modern foreign languages.

Taught entirely in Welsh, you’ll develop skills in educating bilingual and multilingual children. Studying this course could earn you maximum financial support in bursaries and scholarships from the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and the University.

Course overview

Do you want to make a difference to the lives of children and young people? Can you relate well to others? Are you creative, thoughtful, flexible and resilient?

Following the revised Curriculum for Wales, this Welsh medium version of the BA (Hons) Primary Education with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) comprises compulsory modules designed to embed the professional competencies needed to gain QTS. Learning theory and concepts relating to early childhood, childhood development and education, you’ll be taught by internationally renowned staff at the forefront of leading research into teaching and learning pedagogies. In each year of the degree, you are placed in a different lead school, purposefully identified for their best use and development of the Curriculum for Wales.

Adding breadth and depth to your experience, this includes different age ranges and settings, urban and rural, both mainstream and special needs. Based in Gwynedd, a county with one of the highest numbers of Welsh speakers, you’ll join a welcoming bilingual university. You’ll participate in Welsh-speaking placements with schools across the region.

Bangor University benefits from a longstanding and excellent reputation for teacher education. Your education to become an effective teacher is underpinned by the CaBan Partnership. This innovative bilingual, inclusive teacher partnership relies on best practice and evidence to inform your development, pedagogy and practice.

Our partner schools have well-trained mentors who will support your progress towards becoming an excellent and innovative teacher. From your class and subject mentors to network lead mentors and our own staff, you’ll be encouraged at every stage to develop skills of the highest calibre. You will develop a thorough understanding of how children learn, together with the skills to become a creative and innovative teacher who can make a make a real difference to the lives of young people.

On a comprehensive range of placements, you will be supported by experienced staff to learn how to plan appropriate schemes of work and consider assessment and reporting strategies. Capitalising on our expertise in outdoor education, not to mention our spectacular location near Eryri National Park Authority, you can even try outdoor education and forest school practice. Qualifying as a Teacher in Wales To become a teacher in Wales* and gain QTS, you must first complete a period of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and meet the Professional Standards for Teaching and Leadership.

Once you successfully complete this BA (Hons) Primary Education with QTS degree, the Education Workforce Council (EWC), which regulates the teaching profession in Wales, will issue your QTS certificate. You will also need to register with the EWC to work in a maintained school in Wales. Once you have gained QTS and/or registered with the EWC, you will need to complete a period of induction, a statutory requirement for all newly qualified teachers (NQTs).

On statutory Induction, you will be required to use your…