We pride ourselves on tailoring training to meet your needs. All sessions offer participants opportunities to reflect on the implications of research and a myriad of examples of best practice.
Click here to view some sample course outlines which can all be adapted to your situation. Some of the sessions we provide on a regular basis are:
Early Years Foundation Stage
- EYFS themes and commitments
- Characteristics of effective learning
- Prime areas: Personal, social and emotional development, Communication and language, Physical development
- Observation, assessment and planning
Quality provision for two-year-olds
- What it means to be two — developing brains and bodies, and the effect on learning and behaviour
- Focus on how two-year-olds learn
- Understanding attachment and the role of the key person
- Personal, social and emotional development
- Communication and language development
- Physical development
- Developing interactions, environments, and routines to support young children
Progress check for two-year-olds
- Importance of early intervention
- Formative and summative assessment
- Guidelines for implementing the check
- Partnership with parents
Playful pedagogy
- how children learn
- the role of the adult
- learning, playing and interacting
- fostering learning to learn
Early Language and Communication
- developing communicative environments
- working with parents
- communication and language development
- improving communication skills with children
- language for thinking
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- early communication and attachment
- the role of the key person
- supporting positive behaviour
- being social –relationships, conflict, empathy
Inclusion
- the Inclusion Development Programme
- behavioural, social and emotional difficulties
- supporting children learning English as an additional language
- supporting gifted and talented children
- working with boys
Mathematics – Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
- maths outdoors
- developing enabling environments for mathematics
- maths in stories
- starting with stories and rhymes
- maths through role play