Course description
NCFE CACHE Level 3 Award in Childcare and Education
This course is a great way to build the skills you need to work effectively with children, or to increase the opportunities for advancement in your current career. It will even award you 15 UCAS points, which can help secure a place in many coveted university programmes across the country.
Working with children and assisting in their educational development is both a rewarding and inspiring role. You can help to shape and mould their interpretations of the world and play a key role in their development and growth.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
No prior knowledge or skills are needed to enrol onto this course. Similarly, as this is only a knowledge based course, there is no need to be working within a childcare or educational environment. All we ask is that you are at least 16 years old.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Upon successful completion of this course you will receive a NCFE CACHE Level 3 Award in Childcare and Education which has been accredited by the qualifications regulators for England, Wales and Northern Ireland – part of the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF).
This qualification is to guide and assess your development in relation to working in the children and young people's workforce, and will enable you to pursue a career working in Early Learning and Childcare; Social Care, and Learning Development and Support Services workforce.
This course can also be used to help you to progress onto our NCFE CACHE Level 3 Certificate in Childcare and Education (VRQ) qualification, and then on to the NCFE CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Childcare and Education (Early Years Educator) (VRQ).
NCFE CACHE is the UK's only specialist awarding organisation for the children and adult care sectors. They offer the most up-to-date and relevant qualifications for the new RQF, and work with Sector Skills Councils to ensure high quality and cutting edge service is supplied to their customers, learners and the sector itself.
Course Benefits
This course will:
- Earn you a nationally recognised qualification in childcare and education
- Gain you 15 UCAS points which can be used to earn you a spot at university
- Help you to kick start your career and expand your work opportunities
- Allow you to study on your own terms free of exams, deadlines and pressure
- Enable you to study from the comfort of your own home whilst maintaining a healthy work-study balance
Training Course Content
Unit 1: Child development from conception to seven years
- (F/506/5384, Unit Level 3; GLH: 148)
- Biological and psychological development of children from birth to seven years
- Roles of an early years practitioner
- Active steps an early years practitioner take
- Frameworks that can be applied to young children's development
- Setting appropriate milestones for development
Unit 2: Children's Health and Wellbeing
- Physical and emotional needs of young children
- Dietary and nutritional requirements
- Health and safety
- Emotional needs during stressful or transitional moments
- The need for regular exercise
Course delivery details
For online based courses, you will study your course and submit work online. Paper based courses are the same as online, but with additional printed study packs sent to you.
Our NCFE CACHE Level 3 Award in Childcare and Education is uniquely designed to help you embrace your passion for childcare, and do so on your own terms. No exams. No classes.
This fantastic course has been tailored for home study, making it possible for you to find a healthy work-study balance that works around you. In fact, you can shape this course around your learning requirements, and study when, where and how you want.
More importantly, you can do it from the comfort of your own home.
And this is fantastic news, if you are taking your first steps back into education or wish to broaden your skillset whilst working; as you can study at your own pace without having to make any unnecessary sacrifices.
This course has been created by NCFE CACHE who specialise in the care and education sectors. Whilst creating this course, they have harnessed the expertise of industry specialists, to ensure that everything you're taught is exactly what employers expect of you.
From the biological and psychological development of children, to recognising their physical and emotional needs; you can achieve an excellent foundation of knowledge in childcare and education, and acquire skills that are easily transferable into your future career.
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