Your February Update from CREC
CREC - Centre for Research in Early Childhood
Working towards improving early years provision.
Due to popular demand, tickets have sold out and we look forward to hosting over 60 research presentations on the day, sharing the collective learning and networking.Visit our website to browse all the sessions and research abstracts. See the programme
BECERA latest presenter posts
Take a look at the research guest posts to learn more about BECERA presenters’ research projects, their wider Early Years interests and ways you can connect with those of similar research interests to yours. Click the image to go straight to each post:
Train to Teach from September 2025
The CREC School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) programme offers a one year full-time school-based route to becoming a primary teacher with an early years or early primary specialism and Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). We will help you succeed by offering consistent guidance and personalised support throughout the course.
Anyone interested in starting their teacher training with CREC in September 2025?can find out more at:?www.crec.co.uk/itt.
Applications are made through the DfE ‘Apply’ portal using our course code 2MZV:?https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/
SCITT - Upcoming information events?
Information morning at? Atherstone Nursery School? Monday 10th February? A tour around the school to see first-hand the day in a life of an Early Years practitioner. Find out more?
Online information session? Wednesday 12th February? This drop-in session is an opportunity to ask questions about our programme. Register here?
CREC will be attending the Train to Teach Event in Birmingham ?
Attend on 24th March in Birmingham and you’ll be able to:
EECERA 2025 - Submit an abstract
A reminder a call for papers for this year's EECERA Conference is only open for another few weeks.? Submit an abstract for an opportunity to present at this international forum which will be held 25th - 28th August in Bratislava, Slovakia.
DEADLINE: 23:59 (GMT)?Monday, 3rd March 2025.
Our part time MA programme, accredited by Birmingham City University, is designed specifically for practitioners working in the early years sector and can be studied alongside and in support of your day-to-day role.
The course draws upon CREC's research expertise and enables students to work within a community of practice.
As well as providing students with expertise in early childhood, our programme also provides a grounding in research methods. In each year of their study, students are invited to specialise in areas such as Leadership, Music, Creativity and the Arts, Mentoring, and Nurturing Childhoods. They are also offered invaluable support for practice-based research. Through researching practice in a systematic and rigorous way CREC students contribute to their settings, their profession and the potential generation of wider knowledge.
MA Online Information Session Tuesday 11th Feb | 16:00 - 17:00 Attend to meet our postgraduate programme lead, Dr Helen Lyndon, and learn more about the programme. The event will also provide an opportunity to ask any questions you may have regarding the MA structure & content, researching and assignments, our community of practice, the application process and more.?
BECERA 2025
Due to popular demand, tickets have sold out and we look forward to hosting over 60 research presentations on the day, sharing the collective learning and networking. Visit our website to browse all the sessions and research abstracts. ?
BECERA latest presenter posts
Take a look at the research guest posts to learn more about BECERA presenters’ research projects, their wider Early Years interests and ways you can connect with those of similar research interests to yours.
领英推荐
Exploring the Joyful Path to Development - by Francesca Brown-Cornwall
Who is listening to children’s mathematics?- by Elizabeth Carruthers and Maulfy Worthington
Participatory Action Research with young children - by Nina Taylor
How did Covid-19 affect attachment relationships in ECEC settings? Understanding educators’ lived experience. - by Jenny Shaw
Adaptive, not prescriptive: How a realist methodology can support the development of a child and practitioner-centred mindful pedagogy?- by Eleanor Milligan and Lois Ferguson
Political ideology and Early Years training: Using mood boards as an empowering research tool - by Kay Davey
Train to Teach from September 2025
The CREC School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) programme offers a one year full-time school-based route to becoming a primary teacher with an early years or early primary specialism and Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). We will help you succeed by offering consistent guidance and personalised support throughout the course.
Anyone interested in starting their teacher training with CREC in September 2025?can find out more at:?www.crec.co.uk/itt.
Applications are made through the DfE ‘Apply’ portal using our course code 2MZV:?https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/.
SCITT - Upcoming information events?
Information morning at? Atherstone Nursery School? Monday 10th February? A tour around the school to see first-hand the day in a life of an Early Years practitioner. Find out more?
Online information session? Wednesday 12th February? This drop-in session is an opportunity to ask questions about our programme. Register here?
CREC will be attending the Train to Teach Event in Birmingham ?
Attend on 24th March in Birmingham and you’ll be able to:
EECERA 2025 - Submit an abstract
A reminder a call for papers for this year's EECERA Conference is only open for another few weeks.? Submit an abstract for an opportunity to present at this international forum which will be held 25th - 28th August in Bratislava, Slovakia.
DEADLINE: 23:59 (GMT)?Monday, 3rd March 2025.
Our part time MA programme, accredited by Birmingham City University, is designed specifically for practitioners working in the early years sector and can be studied alongside and in support of your day-to-day role.
The course draws upon CREC's research expertise and enables students to work within a community of practice.
As well as providing students with expertise in early childhood, our programme also provides a grounding in research methods. In each year of their study, students are invited to specialise in areas such as Leadership, Music, Creativity and the Arts, Mentoring, and Nurturing Childhoods. They are also offered invaluable support for practice-based research. Through researching practice in a systematic and rigorous way CREC students contribute to their settings, their profession and the potential generation of wider knowledge.
?MA Online Information Session Tuesday 11th Feb | 16:00 - 17:00 Attend to meet our postgraduate programme lead, Dr Helen Lyndon, and learn more about the programme. The event will also provide an opportunity to ask any questions you may have regarding the MA structure & content, researching and assignments, our community of practice, the application process and more.?
Certificate for Music Educators: Early Childhood
Applications are now open for Certificate for Music Educators: Early Childhood cohort of 2025-2026!?If you're looking to deepen your practice, knowledge and understanding of Early Years Music, this is the course for you.?Contact us for more information.
CREC Learning Circle
Our community of practice has met regularly since 2003 for presentations or discussions on early childhood issues, and includes students, policy makers, local authority leaders and visiting academics.
Our next session will be held online on Tuesday 4th March?
Watch previous Learning Circle Recordings: Louise Hannan ‘ An exploration into the Emotional Environment of two-year-old Early Childhood Education and Care settings offering funded provision’. Passcode: *m9kfR2q
Baljit Gill on Material Entanglements: Merging Thematic and Diffractive Analysis. Passcode: A5X^nY?H
Peter Moss on The International Early Learning Study (IELS) and assessment.Passcode: Y^x8VCx*
Related reading:?It's time people heard of the International Early Learning Child Well-being Study, says Peter Moss | Nursery World, 30 September 2024
Froebel Trust Webinar:?Unity in Diversity with Prof. Tina Bruce, Dr Stella Louis & Prof. Chris Pascal
This Froebel Trust webinar brought together three influential women whose work about early childhood continues to inspire and inform practice in early years settings and schools today. Recorded 16 January 2025. Watch the recording
Joyce Morris Early Years Literacies Forum
Richard O'Neill MBE: Caravan to Classroom? Wednesday 2nd April 2025 In person at UEA and Online 6-8pm Drawing on his lived experience within a nomadic family and working in schools. Richard shares how cultural understanding and inclusivity can transform early years settings into welcoming, empowering environments for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children and their families.