Primary (3-7) London Metropolitan University

Overview

By choosing to train as a teacher of 3 to 7-year-olds at London Met, you’ll be joining a powerful partnership of diverse teachers and schools. You’ll undertake two school placements of 10 and 14 weeks, giving you excellent hands-on practical experience in two different schools. We place an emphasis on teaching in an urban, multicultural environment, which is ideal if you want to teach in a city setting.

What you'll learn

In the university-based sessions at our Holloway campus, you’ll learn teaching strategies and pedagogical techniques, as well as discovering the fundamentals of how pupils learn. These sessions will include collaborative projects and school-based projects with other trainees, gaining and practising the most up to date knowledge of the principles of planning, teaching and assessment.

Throughout your school placements, your school-based mentors and university tutors will support you in the classroom. By gaining experience both in the classroom and at university, you have the chance to reflect on links between your own teaching practice and theory.

With its high-quality teaching, this course is highly rated by Ofsted, who praised the university ‘...in its ambition to recruit and train future teachers from diverse backgrounds who reflect the different backgrounds and perspectives of school communities. This ‘ambitious and demanding’ course offers a ‘carefully planned and sequenced curriculum that prepares them for working in schools. Trainees are proud to study here and feel well supported by university and school staff.’ (Ofsted 2024).