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A day in the life of CREC Trainee Teacher
Learn about Megan’s daily interactions with colleagues and children as she navigates her journey towards becoming a teacher.
Easter Closure Notice
Our office will be closed from 4pm Friday 22 March until 8am Monday 8th April.
Reflection with Guidance: a Froebelian tool for practice development and transformation
Froebel Partnership has launched a practitioner-led professional development programme designed to critically reflect upon practice.
How can early years settings best support children of Armed Forces Families?
CREC to develop Thriving Lives toolkit for supporting youngest children (0-5) of Armed Forces Families
Extraordinary Professorship Appointment
Professor Chris Pascal has been appointed Extraordinary Professor by the North-West University, South Africa.
Call out to Midlands-based early years, creative and cultural organisations - we need your help!
As the first part of our mapping process we are asking all organisations and individuals (early, creative and cultural) working in the Midlands region to complete this online survey
Foregrounding practitioner research at University of Pretoria
Prof Chris Pascal, Prof Tony Bertram and Dr Helen Lyndon represented both CREC and EECERA at University of Pretoria in South Africa where they delivered a keynote talk foregrounding practitioner research and for three subsequent days run workshops focused on academic writing, ethics and dissemination.
Christmas Closure Notice
Our office will be closed from 22nd December and will reopen on 8th January.
The youngest refugee and asylum-seeking children are locked out of ECEC provision, new report finds.
The youngest refugee and asylum-seeking children are locked out of ECEC provision, new report finds.
Children’s Friendships Matter Podcast Series
This new podcast series by Dr Caron Carter has been created for academics, teachers, educators and parents interested in supporting and facilitating children’s friendships.
CREC partner with Teach First to offer SCITT with early years specialism
CREC and Teach First join forces to offer a specialist early childhood route into teaching (QTS) in the West Midlands from September 2024.
CREC becomes a member organisation of the Early Education & Childcare Coalition
Having been fully supporting their collective aims and ambitions, we are now very proud to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with a diverse group of organisations calling for urgent action to rescue, reform and secure the long term future of the early years sector.
New report: “What about the children? How the UK’s decision-makers considered children and young people during COVID-19 pandemic.”
Harm caused to children in the Covid-19 pandemic was preventable – new Save the Children report concludes.
A Day in the Life of a Year 1 Teacher
Lucy Rodgers explains why, when you're a teacher, every day is different and there is rarely a dull moment.