If you have a question around EYTS eligibility, DfE funding, or training delivery, please click on a question below to reveal the answer.
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EYTS Eligibility FAQ’s:
Yes. You must have a Bachelor’s degree in any subject.
Yes. You need GCSEs at least at Grade 4 (C) – or equivalent – in maths, English and science. If you don’t have a GCSE in those subjects, you can either take a GCSE course, or an equivalency test. We can accept equivalency tests.
Yes, you will need to show your original certificates to your setting/school. They will certify that they have seen the original certificates.
No. Level 2 qualifications don’t cover the same breadth as GCSEs so are not accepted as equivalent for our ITT courses, including our EYTS programme.
Yes. As you are employed, we accept the DBS confirmation from your setting/school.
Employment:
Yes. You need to be employed by a setting/school when you start our EYTS GEB course in September 2023.
Yes, if you have a Degree and GCSEs in maths, English and science at Grade 4(C) or above.
Yes, if you have a Degree and GCSEs in maths, English and science at Grade 4 (C) or above.
EYTS Funding FAQ’s:
No. The DfE funds the EYTS programme, and a £7000 employer incentive goes to your setting/school. The incentive is paid in monthly instalments and should be used to contribute to costs the employing school/setting incurs in association with EYITT training, for example, supply cover, salary enhancements, employment costs, National Insurance, and additional training costs and other overheads.
No.
EYTS Programme FAQ’s:
Yes. The EYTS GEB route is part-time. The training and placements on the course are alongside your employment in your setting/school.
No. To gain EYTS, you need to have experience of teaching and care in at least two settings (one of which can be your own setting/school), to cover the age range 0-5. You will need to have a placement in a reception class, with experience of knowledge of KS1 and KS2.
You will spend 20 days (normally mornings) in two blocks of 10 days, in a school where you will teach phonics and maths in a reception class, and gain knowledge and experience in KS1 and KS2. You may also need a placement in another setting to have experience of teaching children 0-5, unless you have babies, toddlers and young children in your own setting, in which case you will need to teach each age group in your setting with the placement in a reception class.
DfE guidance says that a trainee should work no more than 90% of a full-time contract, with the other 10% allocated to training and study. This means that all trainees should be granted a half day per week of release time – which can be taken as a day each fortnight preferred.
Employment with an EYTS qualification:
When you have EYTS, you can work in all private, voluntary and independent (PVI) early years settings. You can also work in free schools, academies and independent school that can employ teachers without QTS. NB EYTS does not allow you to lead teaching in pre-school nurseries and in reception classes in maintained schools.
There isn’t a pay scale for Early Years teachers. Teachers with EYTS do not come under the Teachers’ Pay and Conditions which means that settings, including maintained schools can set the salary for teachers with EYTS.
Early Years Teachers with EYTS can teach in a reception class in a maintained (state) school, BUT they cannot be employed to lead the teaching. EY teachers with EYTS are not qualified to teach classes above Reception in maintained schools. EY teachers with EYTS can teach in independent schools and academies as unqualified teachers.