With this specialisation, you’ll be helping children achieve the best possible start in life – setting them up with the lifelong skills and experiences they need to flourish.

What you’ll be qualified for

Your qualification will be a Bachelor of Education (Honours) in Primary Education. You’ll be able to teach children (5 – 12 years of age) in primary schools from Foundation to Year 6.

What you’ll be learning

You’ll learn how to develop children’s creative, physical, personal, intellectual and social capabilities – engaging them through a range of innovative strategies.

By studying contemporary child development, psychology, and the social and cultural context of education, you’ll have a solid foundation for understanding holistic and play-based learning, and how to effectively teach across the primary curriculum.

With at least 90 days of professional teaching practice in early childhood centres, kindergartens, preschools and primary schools, you’ll get a chance to put theory into practice and get a real taste for what teaching looks like out in the field.

Areas of study will include:

• English and literacies
• Mathematics
• Arts education
• Humanities and social education
• Science
• Health and physical education
• Environment and sustainability studies

Your career options

Demand is always strong for highly qualified and skilled graduates. And with this dual-sector qualification, you’ll have a number of options across a range of early childhood, primary school and community settings.