This course requires you to have 350 work placement hours in an early years setting, where you will be supported by a tutor and an assessor who will visit and directly observe you carrying out assignments.
All learners will be required to complete placement hours to make 350 hours total: 0 to 1 year 11 months - 25 hours 2 to 2 years 11 months - 133 hours 3 to 5 years - 195 hours
Topics covered can include:
You will need:
All applicants must have an interview to confirm that the course is suitable for them.
You must have secured a work placement, ideally, before the course begins, and definitely within the first 4 weeks of enrolling on the course. As work placement is mandatory, you will not be allowed to continue after the first 4 weeks if you do not have a placement secured.
The course is assessed throughout the year and with an end-of-course portfolio.
If you will be aged 19 to 23 prior to the start date of your course, and do not already have a full Level 3 qualification, you may be eligible for a Level 3 entitlement, in which case your study with us will be free. If you are older, or already have a Level 3, we have many other Level 3 courses that are also free to study. Otherwise, you will have to pay the fees yourself or apply for an Advanced Learner Loan.
Please see here for the documents you will need to show us.
Some courses will have other associated costs, such as for specialist materials and trips. Many of our students are eligible for financial support, see here for details.
This course will help you to move on to higher level courses, such as a Foundation Degree, an apprenticeship or other employment in the sector.
Cynthia works within the Education sector, facilitating learning and training for young people and adults who would like a career in the Health, Care and Education provision.
Her experience has spanned many years, working with local communities to organise and manage play, learning and supporting lone parents to manage their families and individual well-being.
Working with a diversity of age ranges and local communities and observing many diasporas, inequalities and discrimination has employed Cynthia’s passion to continue to be part of an establishment that welcomes diversity and strives to challenge the inequalities that many infants, young children, adolescents, and adults experience, hence the importance to consistently work to ensure changes.
The teachers listed may change, these shown are an example of the teachers who teach on these programmes.