What our Learners Say

Overall, the apprenticeship has been everything I anticipated to be. Through extensive research in order to complete assignments, combined with working full time within a primary school setting, I have gained an in-depth knowledge in many areas such as school policies and legislation, SEND and child development. Although I have gained practical experience on the job, the apprenticeship has taught me the fundamental theories and strategies required for me to develop a greater understanding of working with children in a primary setting. During Covid 19, I have had the responsibility of teaching a bubble of 12 children ranging from 4-11 years. Everything that I have learned from the course, has been drawn upon and used more so over the last 4 months

Throughout my Level 3 apprenticeship I had constant support from my tutor Louise, she made sure that I understood each piece of criteria with regular progress meetings. During these, we would discuss the progress I am making and the next piece of work. My tutor would make sure that I understood the criteria which I needed to achieve. We would also practice professional discussions to help build my confidence ready for the End Point Assessment. Anything which I was unsure of I could contact her regarding this, and she would reply quickly. I felt that if I had any concerns these would quickly be addressed with solutions being put in place. I enjoyed completing the apprenticeship which has taken me one step closer to becoming a teacher.

For myself, I will continue working hard to improve in my own practice to give the children the best possible start in life. In the back of my mind will always be the desire to become a teacher one day. This course has highlighted how important the job we do is and I am under no illusion that I need to be ready to become a teacher and it won't happen overnight, I need to view this one step at a time, my next step towards this will be to get my Math's GCSE. I would just like to add that over the last year my tutor has been absolutely amazing. Her support, kindness and patience has definitely been the thing that's kept me going. I am incredibly grateful that Karen has been my tutor, I was very nervous about doing this course but Karen talked me through every step and encouraged me the whole time. With everything that has been going on through this pandemic I feel that Karen did everything she could to adapt and still be incredibly supportive, always checking in on me and our face time calls, which were really helpful to connect us and put a face to the name.