Hi, I thought that I would write about what has happened on my degree so far, hopefully it will be useful to some people, maybe if you are thinking about doing a Foundation Degree (FD)

Well I am attending with my Deputy and good friend so this really helps in some way, but not others as we talk about it all the time. but it is easier to get changes in place!!

We started at the beginning of October and the first term was learning about learning styles, how children learn, theorists. We have completed 3 essays of around 1500 words, with references etc and one power point presentation (scary! )

we attended every week one day a week to our uni, but it is slightly different as we are an off shoot of winchester university based in a lovely old building in basingstoke town centre! so not far to travel for us at all.

We are now starting the 2nd semester and doing a massive 2 term projext on our professional workplace practise, all about what we do at work, profiles and observations on 4 childrens learning styles, directed tasks on all the curriculum areas, management bits as well. this is work based and we have a mentor and assesor that visit us to guide us through it

along side this we are also attending uni for 5 days in the 2 terms to undertake child development. which will look at agres and stages, we will visit different settings and observe lots of things. Again there is 2 essays and a presentation to do!!

I am really enjoying the degree and have met lots of different people, there is 12 on our course over a wide range of ages, stages and professions

The uni has been really supportive and we have been able to apply for grants etc for our fees, ict needs and books!

I hope that this has been useful, please ask questions as this is really brief