Pre Entry

Guidance for Early Steps 1 and 2

Our Early Steps qualifications are teacher-led participation awards, which focus on building learners’ confidence in speaking. Early Steps 1 contains three group activities of between five and eight children. It involves the group saying ‘Hello’ and ‘Goodbye’ to the assessor, joining in a song or rhyme led by the teacher, and listening to a story read out by the teacher. Early Steps 2 is based on a group of six children and it contains four activities. Here, there are two group activities and two individual activities. Group activities are joining in a rhyme, song or game led by a teacher, and taking part in a discussion. Individual activities are speaking a poem for 1 minute and talking about something special for 1 minute.

For further information, please see the qualification specifications .

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