Key Staff
Head of Department: Miss L Wood
Course Information
You will learn about child development and growth up to the age of five. This includes how children learn through play, how to support children with additional needs by adapting activities to promote their development, and how to evaluate activities to ensure they best support all children to develop and that they promote inclusion.
BTEC Child Development – What will I learn?
Over the course of the two years you will develop your knowledge and technical skills in the following areas:
• The characteristics of children’s development from birth up to five years;
• Factors that affect growth and development;
• The importance of play;
• How play promotes children’s learning and development;
• Reasons that children may need support;
• Child-friendly environments to support play, learning and development in children from birth to five years old;
• Supporting all children to learn and develop physically, intellectually, emotionally and socially, and adapting activities to support children’s play, learning and development.
Course Guide