Welcome Back Child Development and Health & Social Care Teachers

Welcome back

Access everything you need to support your planning, teaching and training in the autumn term below. You'll also find resources to support you with your open days.

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Planning and Teaching

To support you with your planning and teaching we have a range of free resources available for Child Development and Health & Social Care:

  • Lesson elements - task sheets and accompanying instructions for activities in the delivery guides
  • Teacher and delivery guides - a range of lesson ideas with associated activities you can use with your students to deliver the contents of the qualifications
  • Teaching activities 
  • Command Verbs for Cambridge Technicals

These resource can be found on the relevant qualification page under 'Planning and Teaching'. 

    

Supporting your open days and option evenings 

We've created a range of posters that highlight just some of the careers available to students who study our Child Development and Health & Social Care. 

Perfect for your classroom, open days, parents evenings and options consultations, these eye-catching posters are a perfect way to promote your courses to students and parents. Download your copy below.

Preparing for mocks

To support you in preparing your students for their assessments we have a number of resources which you can access. Resources include; sample assessment material, past papers, mark schemes, practice papers, candidate exemplars and examiner reports. These resource can be found on the relevant qualification page under 'Assessment'. 

  

ExamBuilder

Our free question-building platform allows you to create tailored papers, see past scripts, mark schemes and examiner reports giving your students the opportunity to practice and build confidence ahead of their exams.

 Training courses

All our qualifications are supported with comprehensive face-to face or online training. These are now available to book via our new professional development page on our website. Further courses will be added throughout the year. You will need to re-register the first time you book a course, but this log in can then be used for all future courses. Previous CPD Hub log in details will no longer work.

Our free Teacher Networks for Health and Social Care provide you with a fantastic opportunity to discuss your subject with our Subject Advisors and like-minded colleagues in your local area.

Admin

Our dedicated admin section provides you with all the key information for this term including:

Our Subject Advisors can provide information and support to schools, including specification and non-exam assessment advice, updates on resource developments and a range of training opportunities. You can reach them through our Customer Support Centre on 01223 553998 or by email at vocational.qualifications@ocr.org.uk.