Welcome back to Primary Education
Back to it! As I write this, we have just come to the end of Welcome Week for the new intake of Primary Education students. We have talked about what is to come and...
Author: p.raymond
Words of wisdom from your Subject Director
As I write this, the new university year looms. For some, this means the excitement of starting a new course and a whole new chapter; for others, it means a return to studies after...
End of year thoughts… from UG Primary Education
This is a strange time of year to be the Subject Director for Undergraduate Initial Teacher Education in Primary Education. All of our students, except for a few are finished for the year or...
HoP’s Highlight 2: Third Year’s Final Assessment
Hello again. My first blog under “HoP’s Highlights” focused on second year assessment in our Wider Curriculum module. The focus of this blog is also assessment, this time our third year students and their final assessment over their very last three days at York St John. When we first planned and designed our current degree programme we incorporated a final year subject specialism – a choice from English, mathematics, PE, science and languages – which was to involve as its final assessment, a continued professional development (CPD) event run by the students for the students. “It will never work,” some cried.
HoP’s Highlights 1: second year adventures in space and time (and other dimensions!)
Hello. My Name is Peter Raymond and welcome to “HoPs Highlights” – my part of the Primary Education blog at York St John University. What is a HoP? A Head of Programme, as that is my role; Head of the BA (Hons) primary Education programme at YSJU. There is a saying that there is a first time for everything. In this case, for me, this is the first time I have ever blogged and I am hoping that this will become a regular part of the Primary Education blog, bringing you some of the highlights at various points through our year.