Course focuses, during the early stages, on the acquisition of a repertoire of basic classroom management competencies to develop the confidence of trainees to work with children in the classroom; there is progressive introduction both to theoretical ideas that underpin professional practice and to the various dimensions of the professional debate; there is extended and focused tuition on the core subject of English, numeracy and science; there is also support and tuition in the other curriculum subjects of art, citizenship, design and technology, geography, history, information and communication technology, music, physical education and religious education.