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Applications for our 2026-27 Certificate For Music Educators: Early Childhood are now closed - thank you to all who have applied to join the next cohort. The lovely CME team are now very busy processing and responding to all the enquiries received by 23rd June.

Watch this space - the application window for 2027-28 will open soon!

Sending massive congratulations to another SCITT graduate who has just secured their teaching job for September! You rock!
If you'd like to change careers and retrain as a teacher in just one year, you can - we are currently accepting applications until June 30th. Link in comments!

"For me, the best part of the program has been participating in a learning community.

When I was teaching, I often felt isolated in my practice and longed to feel that I was connecting with others who shared in my passion and dedication to early years education as vocation. I wanted to be able to ponder and question with others.

Being in the program has allowed me to find that community of ‘questioners’ and ‘ponderers’ and that has been so beneficial for me personally, but also professionally."

Angela Korner-Grafmiller, CREC MA 2023 - present

Book a chat with the programme lead - link in comments.

Your June Newsletter from CREC. Pour yourself a cold drink, find some shade, and relax while you read about all of our latest news, events and research. 😎 (Link in comments).

CREC are thrilled to be part of this wonderful collaboration working hard to improve outcomes for our youngest citizens.

The Department for Education has opened a consultation on whether early years teachers could be awarded Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) instead of Early Years Teacher Status (EYTS). Running until 24 September 2026, the review aims to tackle ongoing workforce pressures, recruitment issues and inconsistent quality across the early years sector.
Article link in comments.

Great to see this moving forward - proposals to introduce a Babies Bill for the first 1001 Days - link in comments.
"The 1001 Days concept includes emotional wellbeing support to prepare for parenting before birth, help with infant feeding, parental mental health checks and assistance with parent-infant relationships."

The deadline to secure your place on our Birmingham-based Early Years teaching route is fast approaching.

Partnering with Teach First, CREC offers an immersive, school-centred training experience that puts you at the heart of local classrooms from day one. If you want to inspire children aged 3-7 and build a career in Early Years Teaching, this is your pathway.

🚨 Application Deadline: 30th June. Places are filling up, so don't leave it to the last minute.

👉 Head to the link in comments/bio to secure your place.

The revised Ofsted inspection framework has failed in its aim to improve the wellbeing of Heads and their staff, according to an independent survey of 100 schools to experience the new regime, published today (22 June).

CREC's Professor Chris Pascal says:
"It has been deeply disturbing to read the traumatic and emotional evidence we have received about the incredibly negative impact of OfSTED inspections on the professional and personal lives of too many dedicated Head teachers and their staff. Whilst this research did not include the early years sector I have serious concerns that the results there would tell a similar story. The distress and damage to the profession as a result of this new framework surely means the whole approach needs urgent recalibration. Until this happens, we will continue to gather independent insight – including, hopefully, from the early years sector - to hold the system to account."

Read the full report - link in comments.