Childcare, Early Years & Childhood Studies

Childcare is forecast to be one of the top five occupations in the UK.

Our Childcare courses have been developed by experienced professionals and will help you to enjoy a rewarding career working with children. Many families rely on professional childcare to help balance work and family responsibilities, which makes childcare a growing sector with many opportunities.

Our courses include a substantial amount of work placement experience in various types of childcare provision, helping you to choose a progression route within the area which interests you most. The department has close connections with local schools and local and national health care providers, creating fantastic placement opportunities for students, including Pinderfields Hospital.

Why Study With Us?

Professional staff

Our staff are highly qualified and have industry experience. We also have dedicated staff who visit and assess the students on placements.

Work experience

We help our students secure work placements that provide essential learning and development on these courses.

Resources & facilities

We have great resources and facilities available to our students including mock nursery classrooms.

Industry links & partnerships

We work closely with our industry partners, including the NHS who have employed over 100 apprentices from us.

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Industry Links

We have strong links with local nurseries, daycare providers and schools where our students complete their placement hours and gain valuable experience.

Childcare, Early Years & Childhood Studies at Wakefield College

Learning

Our students often work collaboratively in the early years classroom to practice hands-on how to create and teach learning activities for children by using the resources around them.

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Enrichment

Our students get the opportunity to go on enrichment trips such as Yorkshire Wildlife Park and Scarborough Beach to celebrate all their hard work over the year.

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Fun Ways to Learn

Our students are always experiencing new ways to learn so that they can apply this to their own practice. Each year we take our students to local Forest Schools where they learn the importance of learning outdoors, team building and problem solving.

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Classrooms

At the College we have a classroom that has been designed to mimic a nursery or primary school classroom so that our Childcare learners can become familiar with an early years teaching environment whilst they learn.

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Meet Our Students

I have a work placement alongside my course where I am a teaching assistant at a local nursery which is perfect because this is my dream job.

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I have learnt skills such as how to work with new people because we work a lot with other classes.

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I have learnt lots on the Childcare & Early Years course so far such as about Safeguarding and Confidentiality.

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I started my studies at Wakefield College in 2008 and since then, I have progressed from Level 1 to Level 6.

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Student Support

Our support services are second to none and we are here to help you succeed.

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Worried about the cost of studying? Financial Support maybe available.

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Applications now open. You can apply through UCAS or directly to the University Centre.

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