February 2025 Subject Advisor Update for Early Years and Child Development
The February monthly update from the Subject Advisor
Welcome to the February update for Early Years and Child Development. This update has information about Provisional Timetables to help with your planning. A quick survey about the Subject Advisors update and information about Training for the new AAQs in Early Childhood Development.
Results for BTEC Nationals, Firsts and Tech Award (2022)
Restricted release of results to centres- 19 March
Results released to Learners- 20 March
Summer 2026 Provisional Timetables
The provisional timetables for Summer 2026 will be avalible on out Provsional timetables webpage from Monday 3 February. The feedback window will run until Friday 21 March.
Please send any feedback to timetables@pearson.com
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Training
Training for the new BTEC Nationals Early Childhood development
There are a number of training events coming up for the new qualification. Lots of dates from now until June 2025.
There are Getting Started : Ways to Plan and teach.
BTEC Tech Award Traning Events Child development
There are new dates for the Tech Award, Preparing for External Assessment.
Published resources for the AAQ in Early Childhood development
We're publishing a Student Book (print) and a Teacher Pack (digital) for Health and Social Care, Early Childhood development and Medical Science.
Each Student Book covers all units in the sector, both mandatory and optional, and will also be available on subscription in e-book form via ActiveHub. The Teacher Packs are available on subscription, also via ActiveHub, in a mandatory-unit bundle for each sector, plus individual-unit packs for each of the optional units.
They should be available in April.
There will be samples available for you to see and look at before deciding to purchase.
Subject advisor
Esther Trehearn
Childcare
