Newman University College, PGCE, Primary Education with French

This course has been developed with Newman’s partner institutions in France, Germany and Spain in response to the national initiative to incorporate modern foreign languages in the primary school; successful completion of this course leads to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) subject to satisfactory performance in skills tests; the course prepares students to be a fully qualified, effective generalist Primary teacher in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, with additional competencies in teaching French, German or Spanish at Primary level; students follow the same modular programme as all students on the Key Stage 1/Key Stage 2 route of the PGCE Primary course, but also complete a module specifically dedicated to the teaching of modern foreign languages; designed with the specific aim of preparing students to teach within the 5-11 age range, the general primary course involves the study of Newman-based modules in the teaching of the National Curriculum core subjects of English; mathematics; science and information communication technology; in addition skills in teaching French, German or Spanish language and culture in primary schools are developed during the course.