Apprentice Early Years Practitioner Review

On a day to day basis I often liaise with parents and children to offer exceptional child care. I arrange activities and learning opportunities for all the children in the room within my setting as well as my key children who I work with more closely. I also care and safeguard children in the setting.

I have learnt many new skills as well as developed skills I already had before joining my new role in child care. I have been able to develop enhanced people skills including communicating with parents, children and other practitioners as well as other professionals in the child care and education industries.

I thoroughly enjoy my course, it often provides new opportunities and experiences for me. I have enjoyed taking the children on trips such as to the farm over Christmas to meet Santa and also on days out to the park or simple things like visiting a local supermarket for breakfast.

My programme is very well organised and very well structured. I find that the programme offers a substantial and well structured course which is easy for learners to follow and the structure makes sense and flows well into the following modules. It makes it possible for learners to stay on track and keep up with the work load.

My employer often supports me throughout my learning. My employer allows me time to complete my studies and the learn on the job in setting. I am able to complete courses, training, zoom calls, discussions and webinars during my work time and my employer gives me time to do all of this.

My training provider offers me lots of support when working towards my qualifications. My training provider offers me many different learning opportunities including webinars, discussions, training experiences, specialised webinars with professionals and training online such as Noodle Now. My training provider also often makes good suggestions when it comes to external learning.

My qualification, through my learning provider, helps me to perform better in my role as I feel I am encouraged to challenge what I know and also bring new things into my role to encourage the development of my role and my setting. I feel I am given inspiration for my job.

My work offers some extra curricular activities to enhance my role and to grow our staff moral as well as the team work over all. We often attend activities outside of work also and also have plans to visit escape rooms together soon as well to encourage staff to work together more to problem solve.

Yes

I would recommend Realise training and apprenticeships to friends and family as it offers new opportunities with good structure. It has allowed me to gain new skills as well as being employed and making new friends. I have been able to work in my desired job whilst being trained to do so.

I would advise fellow or new apprentices to keep up with the work load. The work load is fairly manageable and can be kept on top of weekly, the work is relatively easy if you know your stuff and if you ensure to attend all webinars and make notes to get the most of our these sessions.