Welcome to the Getting Ahead Work T-Level Education and Early Years. We’re so excited to meet you, and look forward to guiding you in this wonderful and rewarding career path. Below are activities that will allow you to make the best start to this subject area. We look forward to seeing them when you start!
‘Play is an essential part of every child’s life and is vital for the enjoyment of childhood as well as social, emotional, intellectual and physical development.’ (https://www.playengland.org.uk/charter-for-play).
Write an essay on the importance of play to babies’ and young children’s learning and development. You should include how play supports the different areas of development you have researched to complete the child development booklet. The essay should be between 500-750 words and should be in your own words. The task should be brought to your enrolment interview.
Research the meaning of the following key words used in Early Years:
| Key Term | Definition |
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| Development |
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| Growth |
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| Developmental Milestones |
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| Rate of Development |
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| Sequence of Development |
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| Maturation |
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| Developmental Norms |
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Research the definition of each of the following areas of development:
| Area of Development | Definition |
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| Physical Development, including Fine and Gross Motor Skills |
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| Cognitive Development |
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| Language Development, including Receptive Language and Expressive Language |
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| Emotional Development |
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| Brain Development |
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Note what children in each of the age categories below should be achieving at each of the following developmental stages:
| Age | Social Development |
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| 0-1 months |
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| 2-3 months |
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| 3-6 months |
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| 6-9 months |
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| 9-12 months |
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| 12-18 months |
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| 18 months – 2 years |
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| 2-3 years |
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| 3-4 years |
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| 4-5 years |
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| 5-7 years |
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| Age | Physical Development |
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| 0-1 months |
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| 2-3 months |
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| 3-6 months |
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| 6-9 months |
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| 9-12 months |
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| 12-18 months |
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| 18 months – 2 years |
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| 2-3 years |
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| 3-4 years |
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| 4-5 years |
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| 5-7 years |
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| Age | Cognitive Development |
|---|---|
| 0-1 months |
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| 2-3 months |
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| 3-6 months |
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| 6-9 months |
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| 9-12 months |
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| 12-18 months |
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| 18 months – 2 years |
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| 2-3 years |
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| 3-4 years |
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| 4-5 years |
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| 5-7 years |
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| Age | Language Development – Receptive and Expressive Development |
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| 0-1 months |
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| 2-3 months |
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| 3-6 months |
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| 6-9 months |
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| 9-12 months |
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| 12-18 months |
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| 18 months – 2 years |
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| 2-3 years |
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| 3-4 years |
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| 4-5 years |
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| 5-7 years |
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| Age | Emotional Development |
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| 0-1 months |
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| 2-3 months |
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| 3-6 months |
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| 6-9 months |
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| 9-12 months |
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| 12-18 months |
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| 18 months – 2 years |
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| 2-3 years |
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| 3-4 years |
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| 4-5 years |
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| 5-7 years |
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| Age | Brain Development |
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| 0-1 months |
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| 2-3 months |
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| 3-6 months |
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| 6-9 months |
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| 9-12 months |
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| 12-18 months |
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| 18 months – 2 years |
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| 2-3 years |
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| 3-4 years |
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| 4-5 years |
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| 5-7 years |
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Throughout your time in placement, you will have many opportunities to read stories to children, this is an essential part of a child’s learning and growing. In year one, you will be asked to choose an age and stage appropriate story to create a story sack alongside this selected story.
Get ahead and design and create a storysack for your chosen story for a child between 4 and 5 years old to increase their interest in reading and love of storybooks
