BA (Hons) Primary Education

Miles: The primary education BA is quite a broad programme, so it's designed to help students understand about teaching and learning in the primary education sector and about the wider kind of educational industry.

Drawing on international influences, etc but it also looks at, you know, some of those complex ideas around ideology, politics, history, culture, society, which influenced the way education is today.

So it's it's a very broad degree.It's not just about teaching. It's about the whole of the educational experience affecting children and teachers in the education system.

Toby: When I was 17, I started working in school and really enjoyed it. I wanted to make sure I knew what I want to do before I came here. So then I did some experience and then I just knew I wanted to qualify as a teacher. From Primary think you can make more of a difference at a younger age, I think that's more important right now. I know I'm in that school three days a week, so I think that's massively helped having placement alongside my theory work. I think it's good that you can reflect and think what works and you can try new things you're always getting ideas about what you can implement in the classroom. And then I know myself, I'll go in and think, oh, we did this or try that and see what works and what doesn't work. I think it's good to actually put into practice what you're learning. It's local. I wouldn't want to move away. It's close to placements and I know a lot of schools around here, so if I need a placement local, I can get here. Yeah, I wouldn't want to do my PGCE anywhere else.

Georgina:I did work experience at secondary school and I basically influenced a child and encourage their maths skills and it just felt really rewarding, and then I was determined from then onwards to work as a teacher. Because of maybe like my special needs in some sense. My mom was concerned that I wouldn't cope in a big crowd. So Marjon was better because it was smaller groups. I have more special support for like one on one basis if I needed it. I have academic support and the person I do it with, they're fantastic. I tell them my plan and then they encouraged me, get me enthusiastic about it and then we make a plan to review it for the next week and see how much I've got done, and then we'll build our next steps again.

Megan: My name is Megan Swan, and I did the BA Primary Education Degree. I chose to do that course because there's like two routes in, usually a BA or a BEd and to be honest with you, I wanted to learn a lot about educational theory and kind of why you teach people teach the way they do. So that was the best route I think to do that. So I am now a reception class teacher, so I am in charge of thirty four to five year olds. I think with doing Primary Education as the degree, it sets you up to kind of every year. So you've got three years You kind of you build like a really solid base of knowledge and it builds and builds in it and you put it more and more into practice, and I think it prepares you for the real world and Marjon has definitely given me those skills to go forward in my teaching practice to continually make it better. I think in terms of like networking, it provided one of the biggest kind of networks we could have. We did quite a few different placements. So I've had had a huge variety. I think I went into four different schools throughout the whole time, and actually, like you go in there, you get chatting to teachers and head teachers, and then you get to recognise when you come to applying for jobs and things like that, You have an idea if if that kind of school was for you and you kind of got your foot in the door already a little bit, and that was a huge thing. I've currently got my first teaching job through a placement that I check with Marjon when I volunteered at the school. Three years later, they've hired me. So I think that kind of works really nicely as well, opportunity wise.