Early Years and Education Bootcamps

Accelerate your progress: This Skills Bootcamp offers you a unique, direct path, to our accelerated level 3 early years educator apprenticeship or job, saving you up to 6 months of learning time and helping you start your dream role much faster.

Gain your paediatric first aid qualification, which is essential to work in an early years setting. The cost of this will be covered by Realise.

Support with your DBS application: We will handle the costs and paperwork for your DBS application, helping you to focus on your learning.

Personalised support: Benefit from personalised support and guidance throughout your course, ensuring you have all of the resources and assistance you need to succeed.

Hear from Ali, who completed the course, “Starting the Skills Bootcamp changed everything. It was a six-week online course and gave me all the skills I needed to start working in the early years sector and it certainly helped my confidence when I went to the interview.”

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Fast track to a Level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship!

Over the course you will take part in fun learning sessions designed to provide you with an introduction to childcare and help you to understand more about how children learn and develop. You will spend one day a week on a placement with a local Nursery where you get the opportunity to test your practical skills and begin to form relationships with what will hopefully become the setting for your Level 3 Early Years Educator Accelerated Apprenticeship. You will also complete Pediatric First Aid certification, crucial for working within childcare.

Topics covered:

• Introduction to childcare,
• Safeguarding and Health & Safety legislations and guidance,
• Supporting Equality Diversity and Inclusion,
• An introduction to theorists and philosophical approaches to how children learn and develop, and their influence on practice,
• Plus how to support children’s transition to school, including phonics – Letters and Sounds.

We offer you the opportunity to complete online courses to support your continuing professional development in Food Hygiene and Food Allergens. You will also complete certified Level 1 Makaton training. Enjoy personalised support and guidance throughout your course, ensuring you have all the resources and help you need to excel. We will also support by helping with CV-writing and mock-interviews to help you practice and prepare. When you finish, you’ll have a fast track to our Level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship, cutting down your learning time by up to six months and getting you into your dream job faster.

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Teaching Assistant Skills Bootcamp

Start your journey working in the education sector with a fully funded 16-week Skills Bootcamp designed to qualify you as a Teaching Assistant (TA). Register your interest today – courses start between September and December 25.

What You’ll Gain:

• NCFE CACHE-Level 3 Award in Supporting Teaching and Learning (Full Teaching Assistant qualification)
• Practical skills for classroom support
• Confidence to work with children in an early years and schools
• Weekly employability coaching & guaranteed job interview
• Ongoing support to help you into a new TA role or progression in your current role.

What You’ll Learn

• About schools and colleges as organisations to prepare for working as a Teaching Assistant.
• How to support health and safety in an education setting and how to keep children safe, healthy and well.
• Knowledge and understanding required to support the safeguarding of children and young people.
• Knowledge and understanding of how children and young people develop, including underpinning theoretical perspectives.

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This 12-week, fully funded Teaching Support Skills Bootcamp is designed for individuals seeking a rewarding career in education. Learners will gain two Level 3 qualifications: the TQUK Award in Supporting Teaching and Learning and the NCFE Award for Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCo) in Early Years Settings. Delivered online with expert support, this programme equips you with the skills to support teachers in primary and secondary schools, and to coordinate SEN provision in early years. The course culminates in a guaranteed job interview, providing a direct pathway to employment in roles such as Teaching Assistant, SEN Support Worker, or Early Years SENCo.