Step 1: Course Enrolment - you will need to complete a short enrolment and telephone induction to start

Step 2: Starting the course - your assessor will introduce themselves and issue you with your first assessment plan

Step 3: Submitting Work - when you have completed an assignment, you can upload it to your course portal for your assessor to mark your work and give you feedback. Feedback will be displayed on your portal and emailed to you for ease of reference

Step 4: Getting Help - when you need help, you can contact your assessor with questions any time as well as being able to get in touch with our customer support team between 9 am and 6 pm Mon - Fri

Step 5: Completion - once you and your assessor are confident that you have met the criteria in each unit, your portfolio goes into the IQA stage which takes approximately 9-12 weeks. After this stage, we will be able to claim your certificate.

Approximately 15 minutes after purchase, you will receive your login details (Please check Spam folder) by email, including a link and instructions to log into your course. You can also find your learning portal by clicking on the ‘student login’ button on our website or by clicking here; lms.thelearningstation.co.uk. 

Learners must achieve 90 credits from 16 mandatory units.

Unit 1 -Developing high-quality teaching

Unit 2- Leading assessments and information sharing

Unit 3- Special educational needs, early interventions and partnership

Working

Unit 4- Promoting emotional security and the development of

Character

Unit 5- Developing children’s understanding and management of

their feelings and respect for others.

Unit 6- Valuing People, community and Environment

Unit 7 Leading Improvements in Health and Nutrition

Unit 8-Developing physiological, gross and fine motor skills

Unit 9- Raising the quality of hearing, listening and understanding

Unit 10- Research focus: raising outcomes for children

Unit 11-Leading progress in speech and phonics

Unit 12-Championing emergent literacy and mathematics

Unit 13-Leading Safeguarding and child protection

Unit 14- Leading safer recruitment, effective staff induction and

performance management

Unit 15-Effective management and partnership working

Unit 16 Ensuring compliance with health, safety, hygiene and

management of the premises

You will get a call to arrange your induction within days of completing the enrolment process. the induction will go through your chosen course, advise on suitability, Help you choose your optional units, and pathways, explain what is expected from your work, provide training on the use of our system and answer any questions that you have. The Induction will take place over the phone.

You can expect any work submitted to be marked within 14 days marking and feedback may take longer if you submit more than 3 assignments in a month.

All our courses are delivered online so no Classroom learning, We have some learning resources but as our qualifications are vocational and work-based courses, you are expected to conduct research and gain skills, knowledge and understanding from your working environment. Your assessor will provide you with assessment plans, which may include guidance and materials, as well as provide constructive feedback on the work that you complete.

Your assessor will provide you with assessment plans with work to complete, as well as their contact information. Your assessor should respond to any messages from you within just 3-working days, but it is usually sooner. 

This qualification requires an assessment of both competence and knowledge. Throughout your Level 5 Diploma for Senior Practitioners in an Early Years Setting course, you will be assessed through a variety of methods:

• Written assignments and coursework
• Having a manager or colleague complete a witness testimony of tasks completed in a workplace
• Direct observations of you carrying out work-related tasks
• Professional discussions over the phone
• Supplying us with work product evidence.

On completion of your course, there are steps that we must take to quality assure your qualification to then send to the awarding organisation.

1. The Assessor must review your work in full before submitting it to our IQA, this usually takes around 2 weeks.

2. The IQA will review any requests within 1-months, but this is usually sooner. If there are actions on your portfolio it will be sent to the assessor for them to complete, and then these steps will be repeated.

3. Once the IQA has quality checked and approved your portfolio for external sampling by the awarding body, the office will submit the claim for your certificate within 5 working days.

4. The awarding body will usually issue a certificate within 2-weeks from this point; however, they may request sampling of your work, in which case it can be up to one month.

5. The usual duration is 2-3 months from completion.