BA (Hons) Primary 3-11 with Qualified Teacher Status (Degree Apprenticeship)

Employer Information

Partnering with Liverpool Hope University to offer our Primary Teaching Degree Apprenticeship allows you to shape your future workforce. Whether you are a local authority school, an academy trust or an independent primary school, this programme offers a cost-effective route to developing high-quality, work-ready educators.

Why support a Primary Teaching Apprentice?

Our curriculum has been designed to prepare apprentices thoroughly for the teaching profession by uniquely blending academic excellence with intensive practical training. By embedding this learning within your organisation, you will experience immediate school benefits:

 - Grow your own talent: Provide a more accessible route into teaching, helping to attract candidates from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. This supports a more inclusive, representative education workforce that better reflects and serves your diverse school community.

 - Address critical skills gaps: Directly tackle teacher shortages by developing future educators who are completely aligned with your school's ethos, curriculum priorities and the specific needs of your pupils.

 - Work-ready graduates: Our programme is designed to produce confident, knowledgeable and reflective professionals.

 - Professional compliance: This innovative programme equips Teacher Apprentices with all the skills, knowledge and behaviours required to make a difference while earning a BA (Hons) Primary Education (3-11) with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and a Level 6 Apprenticeship Qualification.

Your commitments as an employer

To ensure the success of the apprentice, employer partners are expected to:

 - Pay the apprentice’s salary.

 - Release the apprentice for their scheduled university study days (delivered via a blend of in-person university sessions and online learning).

 - Provide mandatory clinical and school placements and assign a dedicated workplace mentor to guide them.

 - Fund the programme via the Growth and Skills Levy or through government funding support.

Please view our Support and Funding tab for further details on funding available to you as an employer.

Support LHU provides:

 - Onboarding assistance: Expert advice and guidance from our Apprenticeships team throughout the application and onboarding process.

 - Financial guidance: Clear support and advice regarding government incentives, funding availability, and digital levy accounts.

 - Dedicated Skills Coach: A qualified coach assigned to your apprentice to oversee their academic progress, practice-based assessments, and overall wellbeing.

 - Mentor support: Guidance, advice and dedicated resources for your wider team, including your school-based workplace mentors.

Ready to address your workforce priorities? Email: apprenticeships@hope.ac.uk | Call: 0151 291 2281

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About the Course

The BA (Hons) Primary 3-11 with Qualified Teacher Status Degree Apprenticeship at Liverpool Hope University offers a unique blend of academic excellence and practical training, designed to prepare apprentices for the complexities and evolving challenges facing the teaching profession. The programme has been developed in close collaboration with employers and stakeholders from a range of settings, schools and multi academy trusts to ensure apprentices get the highest quality training whilst they learn on the job. This innovative programme equips Teacher Apprentices with the skills, knowledge, and behaviours required to make meaningful contributions in their workplace to children, families, and communities, while aiming to address social injustices and promote equality and inclusion for all. 

Overview

This degree apprenticeship is a practice-focused learning programme that integrates on-the-job and off-the-job training, delivered flexibly to accommodate workplace responsibilities. Across the programme apprentices will achieve the following:

- Practical Experience and Professional Competence: Hands-on practice and a portfolio of assessed professional competencies gained directly in the workplace.

- Innovative Learning Experiences: Access to cutting-edge teaching and learning approaches designed to develop the knowledge, skills, and behaviours essential for an effective teacher

- Enhanced Skills and Career Readiness: New knowledge and capabilities to prepare for more advanced and challenging roles in the teaching profession.

Upon successful completion, graduates will be awarded a BA (Hons) Primary Education (3-11) with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and a Level 6 Apprenticeship Qualification. Successful completion of this course means you will be a Qualified Teacher.

Safer Recruitment Statement

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and/or vulnerable adults, and we expect all trainees to share this commitment. All successful applicants onto our ITE programmes will be subject to appropriate pre-course checks in line with DfE requirements, including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, verification of identity, and references.

Further information

To apply or for more information please contact: 

Email: apprenticeships@hope.ac.uk 
Tel: 0151 291 2281

Apprenticeships Hub Team
Liverpool Hope University
Hope Park
Liverpool
L16 9JD

Disclaimer

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the programme of study information. Changing circumstances or changing requirements of external regulators and/or accreditation bodies may necessitate alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. The University reserve the right to make changes if such action is considered by the University to be necessary.

Faculty Information

The BA (Hons) Primary 3-11 with Qualified Teacher Status Degree Apprenticeship at Liverpool Hope University is taught by the academic team in the School of Education under the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences.

Curriculum Overview

Year 1 (Level 4) 

Year 1 will introduce apprentices to the fundamental skills involved with teaching in a setting that teaches the Early Years and Primary curriculum. Each module will give a beginning awareness to key areas of the roles and responsibilities of a teacher.

Modules include:

- Professional roles and responsibilities

- Core Curriculum

- Foundation Curriculum

- Professional Studies

- Professional Enhancement 

- Fundamental Skills for Teaching

Year 2 (Level 5)

Year 2 will build on the initial skills taught in Year 1 and enable apprentices to develop their skills and knowledge as developing teachers. This year will also include the opportunity to teach in a different setting for 5 weeks, giving an alternative perspective on the profession with the ability to consolidate and embed practices.

Modules include:

- Professional roles and responsibilities

 -Core Curriculum

- Foundation Curriculum

- Professional Enhancement In Alternative Setting

- Fundamental Skills for Teaching

Year 3 (Level 6)

As Year 3 teacher apprentices, this year will integrate previously taught knowledge and skills within all curriculum and professional development areas and enable apprentices to embed their understanding and command of the profession.

Modules include:

- Professional roles and responsibilities

- Core Curriculum

- Foundation Curriculum

- Professional Studies

- Professional Enhancement 

- Fundamental Skills for Teaching

Placements

As part of your professional development as a primary teacher you will undertake a series of placements across the three years of the course totaling a minimum of 120 days. This will include a range of placement experiences within your own setting as well as other schools. 

In Year 1, your placement will spend a minimum of 50 days building up your knowledge of effective pedagogy with small groups of pupils and then with the whole class for up to 30% week.

In Year 2, of the programme you will be required to typically complete a 7 week block enhancement placement in a contrasting setting plus an additional 5 days within your own setting. Teaching up to 50% during Year 2 will enable you to consolidate and enhance your professional skills as a teacher.  

In Year 3, your 6 week block placement will see you teaching 80% of the timetable. This placement will enable you to draw on your learning from university and previous placements and embed your practice.  

During these placements, you will have an identified workplace mentor who will support and guide you as you build upon the practice and theory introduced during your work at the university. As you move into your various placements, you will be fully supported by a University Skills Coach and the wider apprenticeship programme team. Placements will be arranged by your employer and supported by the university.

Delivery

Apprentices will typically spend 3 years and 9 months on the apprenticeship course working towards the Apprenticeship Teacher standard with the Apprenticeship Assessment taken in the last 6 months. 

Apprentices will engage in ‘off-the-job’ teaching and learning activities one day a week. Taught content will be delivered through online and face-to-face sessions including scaffolded reflection, examples and exemplification of practice, school based training plan, instructional coaching and deliberate practice.    

Apprentices and their line manager/workplace mentor will be supported by a University Skills Coach. The Skills Coach will meet with the apprentice and line manager/mentor at least four times per year, to support and monitor progress towards the Apprenticeship Standard. 

Entry Requirements

All applicants are individually assessed for suitability. A minimum of 120 UCAS Tariff points must come from a minimum of two A Levels (or equivalent). Additional points can be made up from a range of alternative qualifications: 

Alternative Assessment 

Admission can be considered via successful completion of an alternative assessment for applicants who do not meet the standard entry requirements.

 - Apprenticeships Alternative Assessment Process and Entry Requirements

 - Apprenticeships Alternative Assessment Guidance Notes

 - Apprenticeships Alternative Assessment Marking Criteria

Subject Requirements 

English and Mathematics

Before applying, you must possess:

 - A grade C/4 (or equivalent) in the GCSE examinations in English and Mathematics.

 - A grade C/4 (or equivalent) in the GCSE examination in a science subject. 

Where applicants do not have a relevant GCSE at grade 4 or equivalent qualification, you can take a GCSE equivalency test prior to the course commencing. If English is not the applicant's first language, they will also need IELTS of 5.5 - 6.5 with no less than 6.0 in any band (or equivalent).

Additional Requirements

Offers will be subject to successful interview, as well as a Health Check Statement and an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service. 

Eligibility

The apprentice and employer must ensure the following criteria is met to be eligible for funding. If you don’t meet these requirements contact us before applying:

- You will be aged 18 or over before you start your course.

- You are a UK citizen with the Right to Work and Study in the UK (or you are a Non UK citizen with the Right to Work and Study in the UK).

- You are currently in employment in England and will spend at least 50% of your working hours in England over the duration of the apprenticeship, and you are not self-employed.

- You are not planning to leave the UK within the next 12 months (excluding holidays).

- If you’ve already undertaken an apprenticeship, you will have completed and left that apprenticeship before undertaking this apprenticeship with Liverpool Hope University.

- This apprenticeship with Liverpool Hope University will not duplicate training or assessment you have already received from another source- not already being funded by the Department for Education or any other government department for any other training or education.

Assessment

The Teacher (Primary) Degree Apprenticeship (Integrated Degree) incorporates a diverse range of assessments, including coursework, practice/competency- based learning, presentations, case studies and written assignments.   

These assessments are carefully designed to ensure apprentices demonstrate competence in alignment with the Teaching Standards.

Practice learning is a consistent theme throughout the duration of the course. Apprentices are to achieve a minimum of 120 days of teaching activities by the end of the apprenticeship. Each year will contain practice-based modules, the concepts of which will be developed during both clinical practice (off-the-job) and work-based (on-the-job) learning.

Apprentices will also participate in four Progress Reviews each year, conducted by a University Skills Coach.

Support

Apprentices will be eligible for a range of support offered by Liverpool Hope University, including:

- Student Support including Learning Support, Mental Health and Wellbeing and Counselling

- Library

- Careers and Employability including job opportunities, career support and further study information.

Apprentices will also be able to obtain a student ID card to benefit from student offers and discounts including discounted annual gym and sports membership at our Hope Park Sports centre.

Funding

Maximum Funding: £27,000 (dependent on individual assessment).

Degree Apprenticeships are paid for by the employer. 

For employers with a payroll below £3 million: The Government will pay 95% if the cost of the apprenticeship training and assessment for apprentices of any age, for employers who will not be paying the apprenticeship levy. Employers may also be eligible for extra employer incentives.  

For employers with a payroll above £3 million: Since May 2017 employers can use their Apprenticeship Levy contributions towards the cost of the apprenticeship using their digital account. Liverpool Hope University will agree to a payment schedule and discuss funding availability before an apprenticeship course commences.