It was great to see our new and returning Early Years students pushing themselves out of their comfort zone with Loudspeaker @gatesheadcoll last week. Keep being you everyone! #loudspeaker #proudteacher

T Levels in Education and Early Years @gatesheadcoll are settling in well and have been enjoying some fine and gross motor activities to help them understand children’s physical development. #childdevelopment #earlyyears

Great to see some of our level 1 students in Early Years @gatesheadcoll being really enthusiastic about our bottle sterilisation and making a formula feed session today. They really showed interest as well as considering health and safety. #EarlyYears #childcare

Just look at our T Levels in Education and Early Years @gatesheadcoll fully embracing the fine motor and gross motor activities this week in my physical development session. Threading cheerios, dough disco, tweezer peas, cosmic yoga and more! @TLevels_govuk #earlyyears

We love hearing from our T Level alumni @gatesheadcoll when they move on so I was thrilled to receive this photo of ‘day one at Uni’ from six of our lovely recent leavers. Good look girls, enjoy the journey! #ncfe #proudteacher #futureteachers @TLevels_govuk

New year, new start, new T Levels in Education and Early Years @gatesheadcoll Today I welcomed group 1 and we had a great day experiencing a carousel of activities to promote children’s learning and development. #earlyyears #TLevel

Wow! So many proud teacher moments today celebrating T Level results in the Early Years Team @gatesheadcoll this morning. A huge farewell and good luck and we can’t wait to hear about your next adventures. Our ‘mantra’ is true, Hard Work Wins #TLevelResultsDay

We can’t wait to see the T Level results tomorrow from our Early Years and Education students @gatesheadcoll. Good luck everyone, from all of the teaching team! We know you’ll have done yourselves (and us) proud. #ResultsDay #TLevels #ncfe #HardWorkWins

Nothing makes me more proud than when I bump into ex students from @gatesheadcoll and hear they are employed full time as Early Years Practitioners! Today I visited Abacus nursery and saw Katie, Beth and Amy who all studied level 3 with us! #EmploymentEdge #EarlyEducation

In Early Years @gatesheadcoll we have recognised Internet Safety Day and have been compiling some top tips for children and young people to help keep them safe online! #InternetSafetyDay #earlyyears

So proud to share with you all that the Early Years Team @gatesheadcoll were able to hand over this cheque for £250 to @TinyLivesTrust after our fundraising before Christmas with ‘Purple for Prem’ #tinylives #prematurebirth #purpleforprem

Our childcare students @gatesheadcoll made me proud today at Mission Christmas! We have sorted and packed so many gifts and just as we clear space the vans came with more donations! Humbling to see the power of Christmas Spirit. #cashforkids #MissionChristmas #proudteacher

Second year Early Years Educator students @gatesheadcoll have been making Literacy and Numeracy resources to use when they go to block placement next week! Their creativity has impressed me. Well done everyone! #EarlyYears #earlylearning #TLevels

A big thank you to my Elf helpers from the Early Years Team who were amazing at the Christmas party @gatesheadcoll on Saturday. You did us proud well done! #TeamWorMakesTheDreamWork #childcare #partytime

A huge thank you to Louise from Tiny Lives who visited early years students @gatesheadcoll this week to explain the wonderful work the charity do to support premature babies and their families. Today we supported Purple for Prem! #TinyLives #purpleforprem #prematurebirth

Our first year T Level students @gatesheadcoll have been exploring the term ‘responsive care-giving’ and how warm, sensitive and reassuring interactions can have positive outcomes in the bonding and attachment process #attachmenttheory #childcare #earlyyears

We love having a bit fun in Early Years @gatesheadcoll and hope our new students enjoy our Halloween treat! #earlyyears #havingfun #teacherlife

Our T Level students @gatesheadcoll are exploring ‘learning through play’ and showed their creativity with this healthy eating activity. They impressed us by explaining how this activity would promote holistic development too!

As an Early Years Practitioner it is important to know signs and symptoms of childhood illnesses. Our level 3 students @gatesheadcoll have been researching to improve their knowledge ready for the workplace! #EmploymentEdge #earlyyears

Level 3 Early Years students enjoying baby song time! I just love that in their first week @gatesheadcoll they have got stuck in, embraced the activities AND let me capture it all with photos! Great stuff everyone #songtime #earlyyears #newstudents