Primary teaching advice

[freida20]

Hello! Im a qualified secondary teacher and for various reasons ive been out of teaching for a while. I now work as a TA in a primary - and, well, i love it! Ive covered some teacher absence but would love to become a proper primary teacher. Does anyone have any advice? I have 2 post-graduate degrees so know lots of theory about learning etc but have little primary curriculum knowledge and no practical skills such as planning for a primary or marking. How would I get these skills and knowledge? I am very happy to study but not sure it would benefit me to go back and do a primary bEd, but a MA would be too research and theory based when i really need to know practical and specific knowledge! I hope this makes sense. How do teachers learn subject content say if they move year groups or key stage after a number of years? Are there any course books for subject content that would help - I honestly have no idea where to start!
I have considered doing some relevant modules through OU if anyone has any familiarity with this id love some advice. Many thanks!

We don't have extra training in particular if we move key stages - we just read the curriculum, go and look at other teachers teaching, ask for specific training like phonics if we need it and so on.

Being a TA is a good start - maybe do it for another year, use the relatively short hours of actual in school work, to do a lot of your own research and so on. Ask if you can do some supply or cover in your current school? Using someone else's planning, ask if you can teach a bit of a lesson here and there (with the teacher in the room) etc.

I don't know any teachers who wouldn't want to let a qualified teacher working as a TA in their classroom, have a go.

Start by asking to cover for the teacher whose class you are a TA in, say doe one session or half a day a week. Then build up to a whole day etc. You could also offer to cover class teachers PPA time, which is how I moved straight from secondary to primary teaching?