Childcare and Education (Early Years Educator) CACHE Technical Diploma Level 3

5 GCSEs at grade 4/C or above, includ­ing maths and Eng­lish lan­guage. Appli­cants who wish to progress to a career in pri­ma­ry teach­ing will also need a GCSE sci­ence grade at 4/C or above.

Need to re-sit? No prob­lem. If you don’t achieve a Grade 4/C in GCSE maths or Eng­lish, you’ll resit your exams with us and we’ll help you prepare.

Wor­ried about your grades?

What­ev­er your results, we want to assure you that exten­u­at­ing cir­cum­stances will be con­sid­ered should you not have the grades indi­cat­ed above. 

We will review each appli­ca­tion on a case-by-case basis to ensure you get a place on the course most suit­able for you.

One of the ways we do this is through a very effec­tive ​‘6 weeks to suc­cess pro­gramme’ that oper­ates from the first day you start your course. This includes sup­port such as (but not lim­it­ed to):

• Allow­ing you to change cours­es if you change your mind in the first 6 weeks
• Mov­ing you between course lev­els if you are find­ing your cur­rent lev­el too easy / too hard
• Incor­po­rat­ing Eng­lish and maths GCSE resits in to your timetable if you don’t meet the grades you need
• One-to-one reviews with your aca­d­e­m­ic tutor to ensure you are pro­gress­ing and achiev­ing well

Our course enquiries and admis­sions team are avail­able remote­ly through­out this unprece­dent­ed peri­od. They can be con­tact­ed at enquiries@​stamford.​ac.​uk should you have any fur­ther questions.

You will need to have a DBS (Dis­clo­sure and Bar­ring Ser­vice) Cer­tifi­cate with no grounds that you are pro­fes­sion­al­ly unsuit­able to under­take pro­fes­sion­al prac­tice or place­ment. Appli­ca­tion for a DBS is man­aged by the Col­lege and we will con­tact you with the forms and guid­ance you require to com­plete this before you are due to start your course.

On suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of this course, you can progress to uni­ver­si­ty, or after gain­ing expe­ri­ence, the Foun­da­tion Degree in Pro­fes­sion­al Stud­ies (Ear­ly Child­hood) at Uni­ver­si­ty Cen­tre Peter­bor­ough. You could also progress to careers in the Ear­ly Years sec­tor as an Ear­ly Years Edu­ca­tor, Prac­ti­tion­er in nurs­eries, Prac­ti­tion­er in recep­tion class­es, Pre-School Work­er, Nan­ny or a Home-based Child Carer.

You will study the fol­low­ing units:

• Child Devel­op­ment
• Chil­dren’s Health and Wellbeing
• Pro­vid­ing Safe Envi­ron­ments for Children
• Child Health
• Play and Learning
• Under­stand­ing Chil­dren’s Addi­tion­al Needs
• Obser­va­tion, Assess­ment and Planning
• Sup­port­ing Emer­gent Lit­er­a­cy and Numeracy
• Prepar­ing for School Readiness
• Inter­na­tion­al Perspectives
• Reflec­tive Prac­tice for Pro­fes­sion­al Development
• Pro­fes­sion­al Part­ner­ships in Ear­ly Years
• Pro­fes­sion­al Prac­tice Portfolio