Middle Years Award in Positive Parenting

This is a bespoke course that has been designed to promote an understanding of 6-12year olds and their specific needs. It is unique in its endeavours as it captures all the elements of child development, psychology and attachments within the psychosocial development of middle childhood and offers candidates a greater understanding of the complex developments that are present at this stage, and how best to address them.

Middle Years is more than a group of learning and teaching strategies, rather, middle years education provides a framework that connects students needs i.e., resilience, relationships, increasing responsibility, academic vigour and relevance in learning in a strategic way that promotes continued student engagement, achievement, and growth. The term “middle years” describes children at the end of primary school (6yrs) and beginning of secondary school (12yrs). They experience heightened emotions, are progressively seeking greater independence, and develop their individual identities and value systems. Intellectually they have a growing capacity for reflective and abstract thinking and begin to make decisions about adult roles.

The main Aims and Objectives of the course are to show you have an understanding of the Middle Years through an increased self awareness resulting from the training. This will enable you to build on relationships with children and young people through your interpersonal skills enhancing communication and understanding by reflection of your personal development.

This is a fantastic course for anyone wishing to start a career in the health and social care industry around middle childhood, i.e. Foster Carers, Parenting Practitioners, Teaching Assistants, Teachers, Social Workers, Social Work Assistants, School Nurse, Child Care and Youth Workers, in fact anyone wishing to pursue a career working with this age group. It is also an exceptional tool for existing workers who require a greater understanding of middle childhood.

You will gain a greater knowledge and understanding of the role and development that is relevant to middle childhood, and the legislative context that child carers operate within.

Obtain an understanding of the personal and interpersonal skill needed at this level

Explore the transitions in education, independence, self confidence, and personal-responsibility of the middle-years age group.

Syllabus

Promote the Wellbeing Children/Young People

In this unit candidates will be able to:

A. Understand the concepts of developmental stages in the wellbeing of children
B. To understand the different stages of child development from 6 to 13 years
C. Explain how Parental Support contributes to the development of children and young people
D. Describing the support parents/carers need to make healthy choices for the child or young person

Promote and Understand Attachments

In this unit candidates will be able to:

A. Understand the different adult child attachment styles
B. Understand how attachments affect the development of children and young people

Promote and Understand Communication

A. Promote effective communication with individuals and key people
B. Use appropriate methods to promote effective communication on difficult and sensitive issues
C. Understand methods to support children and young people to communicate effectively

Promote health and Safety within the home

A. Be able to understand health, safety and security in the home and environment
B. Implement systems to manage risk to self, child /young person and others
C. Be able to take action to minimise risks arising from emergencies

Develop Child’s Aspirations and Awareness

A. Understand the objectives of Raising Aspirations
B. Promote Children and young people through development and support

Understand and Promote the balance of Middle Years

A. Understand and Promote the Middle Years
B. Understand the effects of growing up in a changing society
C. Understand the impact of the primary to secondary transition

Promote confidence and self esteem

A. Understand children and young people’s social and emotional characteristic
B. Understand how to promote confidence, self esteem and awareness
C. Understand the overall needs through social and environmental influences

Understand Children’s Emotions and Stress

A. Be able to understand children and young people’s emotions and stress; physical, mental and emotional
B. Be able to understand, interpret and evaluate children and young people’s emotional development
C. Be able to understand and respond constructively to emotions

Managing Behaviour issues

A. Understand how to manage behaviour issues
B. Encourage children and young people to manage their behaviour
C. Help children and young people to understand behaviour and consequences

Evaluate and Develop your Practice

A. Demonstrate continuing development, and contribute to shared learning as a role model to others

Qualifications

On completion of your course, you will receive the dual award:

Award 1 is issued by Stonebridge Associated Colleges: Middle Years Award in Positive Parenting Diploma

Middle Years Award in Positive Parenting Diploma issued by Stonebridge Associated Colleges, to view a sample of the college’s award, please click here.

Award 2 is issued by our Awarding Body: Level 3 Middle Years Award in Positive Parenting Award

At the end of this course successful learners will also receive a Level 3 NCFE Award Certificate of Achievement. Our course has been accredited under our NCFE IIQ Licence and the course measurable learning outcomes have been benchmarked at Level 3 (using Ofqual’s Qualification and Credit Framework (QCF) level descriptors) to allow you to consider the depth of study, difficulty, and level of achievement involved.

This award has been designed by Stonebridge Associated Colleges to meet specific learners' or employers' requirements. Accreditation by NCFE is a guarantee of quality. It means that this learning programme has been scrutinised and approved by an independent panel of experienced educational professionals and is quality audited biannually by NCFE.

To view a sample of the NCFE Certificate of Achievement, please click here.

To view a sample of the NCFE Candidate Unit Summary, please click here.

What is NCFE

NCFE is the UK's longest established awarding body, recognised as a highly professional and responsive organisation, committed to maintaining excellent customer service and a friendly approach.

NCFE is recognised as an awarding body by the qualification regulators ('regulators') for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The regulators are the Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator (Ofqual) in England, the Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills (DCELLS) in Wales and the Council for Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) in Northern Ireland.

Accreditation by NCFE is a guarantee of quality. It means that the college has been inspected and approved by an independent and experienced education professional and is quality audited biannually by NCFE. The centre delivering the programmes has been licensed by NCFE on the basis of its own quality systems. At the end of an accredited course, successful learners will also receive an NCFE Award certificate of achievement.

For more information on this award, click here

Requirements for Entry

There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.

There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.

Study Options

In order to offer our students the most convenient and flexible distance learning courses, Stonebridge Associated College offers you the option to study for your course via two methods:

• 1. Via the traditional paper-based method.
• 2. Through the online method via ElearnUK.

If you do not have Internet access, or would prefer to study this course via the traditional paper/postal based study method, you can find more information on the course by clicking on the link below.

Stonebridge Prices

Studying by Post. If you would like to pay by instalments, we do offer an affordable interest free payment plan scheme which allows you to spread the cost of your course over a number of months. However, to use this option you will need to study for your course using the traditional paper-based method. For more information on our payment plans please visit our website at www.stonebridge.uk.com

The reason why the course fee is less if you choose to study online, is because with online study there are no costs associated with postage and printing etc. and thus we are able to offer the course at a reduced rate.

The total amount payable over the term's period, is no more than the total cash price of the course.
(APR = 0%). Written quotations are available on request.

Study Hours

This is only an approximate figure and is dependant upon how much time you can dedicate to your studies and how well you grasp the learning concepts in the course material. Furthermore, at the end of each lesson there is a question paper that needs to be completed and returned to your tutor. You should allow at least 1 - 2 hours of study to complete each question paper.

The approximate amount of time required to complete the course is: 90 hrs.