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Working with Children in Early Years and Primary Settings Level 2

Students working with toys in our Early Years classroom.
Getting Ahead

Working with Children in Early Years and Primary Settings Level 2 Certificate (Pre-T Level) at Alton Campus

Welcome to the Getting Ahead work for Level 2 Working with Children in Early Years and Primary Settings! We’re so excited to meet you, and look forward to guiding you in this wonderful and rewarding career path. In preparation for your journey into Further Education with HSDC Alton, we think it is important that you think and prepare for your learning before you start with us in September.

To enable you to have a positive start, a better understanding of your course and the units you will study, we would like you to complete the following work over the summer and email it back to us.

Please email all of your completed work to katie.clarke@alton.hsdc.ac.uk.

We look forward to reading your work and meeting you in September!

Students working with toys in our Early Years classroom.

Look at CBeebies bedtime stories on the internet or on CBeebies on the TV at 6.50pm.

View several different presenters and then write a reflection on how they read the story.

Write an account of your experiences with children and reflect on what skills you think you have for working with children and what skills you think you may need to improve.

Meet your Teachers

  • Katie Clarke

  • Sally Hughes

  • Karen Parish

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Your Learning Space

*This is a representation of your learning space and may not be the exact room you will be using

The tutors were really supportive and it was all thanks to them that I have achieved what I have. I’ve also made loads of great friends and really enjoyed my time at the college.

Lizaveta Sinkerich, A Level student

My experience at the college was enjoyable and productive, with thoroughly helpful people surrounding you, an excellent experience. I wasn’t expecting it to be as good as it was, with the work shop time and experience I had, it was a great two years preparing me for the next stage.

Edward Smith, BTEC student

College is definitely worth all the effort you put in, you get to meet lots of different people and it’s amazing.

Ebony Puttock, A Level student