Care & Early Years at Wakefield College

Year 10 Childcare & Education Taster sessions with the beloved Stick Man🍃🪵

Our Wakefield Care and Early Years awards evening 2024! A huge congratulations to award winners. You should be incredibly proud of your achievements over the past year 👏

Our fantastic Castleford Learners at our awards evening 💥

Our learners had an amazing end of year celebration at Flamingo Land today! Well done for all your hard efforts this year🦩🎢🎡

We're just a MONTH away from our June Open Event!
Join us and find out more about our courses, talk to our tutors and explore our fantastic facilities.

📆Saturday 15th June
🕙10am - 12pm
🎫https://ow.ly/fBGr50RGONZ

Colour Run 2024! 🌈
Our Care and Early Years team have been raising money for YoungMinds at the fun run in Thornes Park.
Well done! 🏃🏻‍♀️

Our Level 1 Health and Social Care students have been using playdough to learn about and create different organs! 🫀 🫁 🧠

Last week, our Level 2 students have taken part in a practical first aid course. They have learnt the practical skills needed to save lives, as well as learning how to create a risk assessment in a hospital setting or care home ward.

Our Level 2 Health and Social Care students have been creating diverse and inclusive weekly menus for a care home, thinking about culture, allergies and intolerances.

Come and see our team on the 29th May!

Eid Mubarak from all of us at Wakefield College!
We wish you a blessed and joyful Eid-al-Fitr ❤️☪️

May-Hem is back for 2024! Wednesday 29th May 10am-2pm at Castleford College

We have lots of free activities on the day from both our CU learning destinations and college tutors.

Activities include crafts, rugby games, interactive blaze pods, gymnastics skills, learning to play drums and ukuleles, mini tennis and so much more.

Learning destinations attending include; Castleford Heritage Trust, Castleford Library, Girlguiding Whitwood Division, Hemsworth Dragons ARLFC Youth & Junior Page, Phoenix Martial Arts, Rothwell Gymnastics, RSPB Fairburn Ings and St Aidan's, Studio 64, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield City Cheerleaders, Wakefield Museum & Castles and Wakefield School of Tennis.

For more information and to register your interest visit https://www.wakefield.ac.uk/college-life/events/2024/05/may-hem-24/

Keep your eyes peeled for further updates in the coming weeks, as we will be releasing information for the pre-bookable activities with our college departments. These are not to be missed!

One of our fabulous lecturers, Katie, is swimming 8k for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. Any donations or sponsors would be greatly appreciated.
Good luck Katie! 🏊‍♀️

Katie’s fundraiser for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity Help Kate Louise raise money to support Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity

Today our Level 1 learners visited Wakefield Library and Museum. They explored the children’s area to find stories appropriate for young children and brainstormed some ideas to create their own children’s books!

Today marks 12 years of Wakefield Children's University and what an incredible journey it's been! We want to thank everyone who's joined us over the last decade and can't wait for what the future holds, starting with a very exciting announcement coming next week!

As an attendance incentive for improvements in attendance, we have recognised this by having a breakfast morning with the Level 1 learners for first part of the morning, focusing on socialising and more focussed talks on what the year ahead looks like for them in terms of progression and what they want to achieve from their studies.

Our Level 1 learners have been learning about mental health as part of children's mental health week. They have been focussing on having a voice taking part in class debates as well as recognising and creating posters of what matters to them.

An amazing opportunity to explore over 70+ roles in the Army, on the 5th March 2024, 15:00 – via a Zoom call (link to register is below)

The Army offers training and support to those training in a medical profession. Bursaries are available for those already in training, student nurse roles, where you can study for your degree while in the Army.

Discover 76+ job roles available in the Army on Tuesday 5 March at 3pm. When you join as a Regular Soldier, you'll live and work on military bases, either in the UK or overseas - but that doesn't mean you have to give up your old life. Unless you're away on operations or training on exercise you'll normally work 8.30am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. You’ll get 38 days’ ...

Level 3 Health and Social Care and T Level Health students at Wakefield College had a talk from representatives from NHS Mid Yorkshire Trust about the core values of working in the NHS, and also progression opportunities with the university of Bradford for the Bradford school of Nursing.

Our Level 2 Childcare learners have been creating games to support children's literacy and numeracy in settings.
The learners then discussed how these games could be adapted to meet all children's needs.

The T level Education and Early Years learners were visited by Leeds Trinity University, where they took part in a session to explore Primary Education degrees. Many of the learners are aspiring to become primary teachers and participated well within discussions on child development theory and how children can learn maths.
Well done T-levels

Level 3 Childcare and T level health have spent the past 4 weeks exploring a forest school environment.
They have learnt lots of new skills including fire lighting. A big THANK YOU to Yorkshire Wildlings

Hear from student Emily about her time studying Childcare with us 👶💬

T-Level Eduaction and Early Years, year 2 participated in an outdoor learning session inspired by the Forest School approach, led by a FS leader. This outdoor session supported knowledge and skills within Performance Outcome 1, skills such as collaboration, active listening, problem solving and imagination were demonstrated by learners. Lots of fun had by many, including Sneezy the dragon! 🐉Education

The first year T-Levels for Education and Early Years have been learning about a range of occupations within the sector (Element 1: Wider Context). They have listened intently to a childminder guest speaker and asked questions to extend their knowledge and understanding of the role and responsibilities. They have also been working collaboratively to create their own collage occupations and used digital skills to create occupation road maps for their own career aspirations. They will be continuing their learning during further guest speakers that include a nanny, an early years educator and a senior children's library officer.