Why choose Level 3 CPLD?
This course will focus on child development, the importance of play and how children learn, as well as the range of skills required to work in early years education.
Students who take up this course will have the place-based work experience that includes planning and preparing as they visit different settings. This hands-on approach provides a unique opportunity to pair theory and practice that sets students up for work within early years.
Students completing their Level 3 studies have continued onto university to study children’s nursing, radiography and teaching, plus many more subjects.
Course type: BTEC Level 3 Extended Certificate
Board: Pearson
Entry requirement: Five grade 4s or above at GCSE including English language and maths
| Unit | Content |
| Children’s development | Covers physical, cognitive, and emotional development from birth to early years |
| Development of communication, literacy and numeracy skills | Focuses on how children acquire essential communication and academic skills |
| Play and learning | Explores the role of play in supporting children’s learning and development |
| Optional unit | Keeping children safe, physical development and health needs, working with parents, or early years foundation stage |
Assessment
• Examinations – all learners take the same assessment at the same time, normally with a written outcome
• Set tasks – learners take the assessment during a defined window and demonstrate understanding through completion of a vocational task
Some external assessments include a period of preparation using set information There are four units in total over the course of two years, of which three are mandatory (two of these are externally assessed) and one optional unit. Assignment content (50%); External assessment (50%).
Progression
The qualification supports access to a range of higher education courses possibly, but not exclusively, in early years education, if taken alongside further Level 3 qualifications.
The qualification carries UCAS points and is recognised by higher education institutions as contributing to meeting admission requirements to many relevant courses. It may lead to careers such as teaching, foundation stage teaching, social work, nursing, physiotherapy, midwifery, probation work, to name but a few.
Additional costs relating to this course
• DBS checks essential for work placement (administration costs paid by the school).
