Early Years and Child Care Courses and Advice
Early Years Educator Qualification: A 2026 Guide
You've decided you don't want to stay stuck in a job that doesn't fit, but the path into early years can feel confusing when you don't have the usual school route behind you. Maybe you've got work experience, maybe you've[...]
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Early Years Practitioner Interview Questions: Top Tips
Ready for your interview, but unsure why some candidates sail through while others struggle to answer the same early years practitioner interview questions? The gap usually isn’t passion. It’s preparation, clarity, and knowing how to turn[...]
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Play-Based Learning: A Guide for Early Years Educators
You've got a room full of children, a tray of blocks, a box of scarves, and that familiar question in your mind, are they learning? If you're new to early years practice, play-based learning can feel wonderfully natural and slightly uncertain[...]
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Early Years Educator Jobs: Your 2026 Guide to Getting Hired
If you're looking at early years educator jobs, you might be in a very familiar place. You want work that feels useful, human, and steady, but you also need a path that fits around real life. That could mean a current job, family responsibilities,[...]
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Esther Adeola: The Mother Who Refused to Give Up on Her Dreams
At Stonebridge, we can’t teach you motherhood, but we’ve got everything else covered. Check out this success story from one of our students. Happy Mother’s Day!
Parents are faced with many sacrifices. Education should not be one of them. On Mother’s[...]
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The Stonebridge College Guide to Becoming an Early Years Practitioner
The early years age group describes children aged up to five, which is a wonderful time of firsts, exploration and newfound understanding.
As such, the first few years of a child’s life are crucial. Children need to be ready to start[...]
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7 Learning Disability-Related Courses to Start Your Career
Do you want to understand the issues that people with learning disabilities face? Maybe you want to specialise in Special Educational Needs (SEN) teaching, or train as a Social Worker? Perhaps you’re keen to[...]
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How to Get a Teaching Role in Early Years Education
The person you become as an adult is being shaped from the moment you’re born, through various influences and experiences. Understandably, parents and guardians play a huge role in a child’s development, but similar can be said for teachers,[...]
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What Childhood Education Course should I take?
Childhood education is a broad term so it’s completely dependent on what job role you’re looking to get into. There are many avenues of employment for those who wish to work with children.
Depending on what interests you and what your passionate[...]
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How to become a Nursery Teacher
Becoming a nursery teacher means you’ll be part of the first step in a child’s journey through education. You’ll teach infants and children from as young as a couple of months through to 5 years old.
Early years teachers need to have genuine[...]
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