Early Years: Teaching & Learning BA (Hons) top-up

Make a difference to your local community and the early years sector Top up your foundation degree in Early Years (or equivalent) to gain a full BA (Hons) degree. You might be a Childminder, Early Years Educator, Teaching Assistant or other professional who advocates for babies, children and families. With this Early Years: Teaching & Learning BA (Hons) top-up, you can advance your working practices and Early Years competencies by combining work-based learning with one twilight teaching session per week.

Teaching takes place at Kingston Hill campus, which features an outdoor learning environment where trainee teachers lead curriculum-linked natural sciences activities with children. It includes a specially built 'cubby-house', outdoor pond, beehive and nature trail, and offers Early Years students the opportunity to simulate teaching and learning with natural materials. There are a number of teaching rooms set up to replicate actual classrooms.

Each classroom is subject based – such as an art room and a science lab – and is equipped with all the relevant facilities you will need to practise your lessons before taking them into school. Our library also has an excellent range of teaching resources to help you plan and teach your lessons. It includes a range of children's topic books, music and nursery rhymes on CD, as well as artefacts and kits that can be used to illustrate historical periods, different religions, science, mathematics and music.

Education and teaching at Kingston University Our students are making big changes to small peoples' lives. Hear how you could develop the skills you need to play a pivotal role in the lives of children and young people.