Our Physical Education with Qualified Teacher Status programme is designed to produce well-qualified subject-specialist teachers for secondary schools, who engage in critical reflective practice to further develop their teaching and enhance pupil learning.

This module will see you:

  • develop a systematic knowledge and understanding of the wider professional requirements of teachers in secondary schools
  • develop critical understanding and awareness of contemporary whole school issues informed by professional practice
  • critically appraise policy and research related to the wider professional role of teachers.

This module aims to:

  • equip students with the fundamental knowledge, understanding and skills necessary to analyse and evaluate the connections and interdependencies between subject knowledge, teachers and teaching, learners and learning, and context and behaviour in secondary school physical education.

In your first extended placement, you will initially undertake a planned programme of observing and assisting experienced teachers designed to develop your confidence in working with pupils before gradually increasing the amount of teaching you do as your skills and confidence grow.

The aims of this module are for you to:

  • begin to apply the general and subject-specific knowledge and teaching skills required of a specialist teacher of physical education in a secondary school to your teaching practice
  • develop the basic teaching competences detailed within the Core Content Framework (DfE, 2019).

This module aims to:

  • equip you with more advanced knowledge, understanding and skills and further experiences and insights necessary to critically analyse and evaluate the connections and interdependencies between subject knowledge, teachers and teaching, learners and learning, and context and behaviour in secondary school physical education.

In your second extended placement, you will follow a similar pattern and planned programme during the early weeks and will gradually progress to experience the full responsibilities of a teacher.

This module will allow you to:

  • develop the teaching skills necessary to qualify as a specialist teacher of physical education in a secondary school;
  • apply the general and subject-specific knowledge and teaching skills/competences detailed within Core Content Framework (DfE, 2019) required to meet the Teachers' Standards (DfE, 2011).