Early Years Learning and Development
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Birth to Five Training Workshop
Our Journey Birth to Five Years Workshop - Empowering parents to access trusted information to support their child's healthy development.
This brief interactive workshop is aimed at all professionals working with families who have children aged 0-5 years old.
It will support you to:
- Understand the background and purpose of the Our Journey Birth to Five Years tool
- Understand how the tool can support Early Years settings to achieve the Healthy Early Years London award
- Navigate the online content
- Translate the online content to make it easier for parents/carers with English as an additional language to access the information
- Share ideas with other professionals
- Understand how to download/order marketing for your parents linked to the content
- Target audience:
- Early Years
Block Play - The Value of Open Ended Play
This course focuses on the value of using blocks and other open ended resources to support children's learning across the Early Years curriculum. Practitioners will learn how high quality block play can offer a range of rich experiences for children such as exploration of shapes and space, construction, problem solving, language and communication skills, social integration as well as fine and large muscle control. There will also be an opportunity for practitioners to explore a block play resource for themselves.
- Target audience:
- Early Years
Creative Maths and Problem Solving
This course focuses on how to embed mathematics throughout Early Years practice. It demonstrates the importance of an effective mathematical environment and the ways this impacts on learning.
- Target audience:
- Early Years
Early Years Coordinators' Forum
This termly forum provides the opportunity for Early Years Coordinators and members of Senior Leadership Teams in schools to share effective practice, develop leadership skills and keep up-to-date with current Early Years issues. The forum provides an opportunity to build local area relationships and to support sustainable improvements in practice.
- Target audience:
- Early Years
Expressive Arts and Design: Using Open Ended Materials
This course explores the range of experiences which support children's developing minds to think imaginatively. Creativity is more than 'banging a tambourine or painting a picture!'. Practitioners will develop their understanding of the key strands within children's creative development and how they can make links to other core curriculum areas when planning activities.
- Target audience:
- Early Years
Forest School Coordinators' Forum
This forum will take place termly and will be an opportunity for all cluster-based Forest School Coordinators to come together to share good practice, celebrate successes, discuss challenges and concerns and new research and developments within the Forest School Field.
The focus will be on development of Forest School sites and how local neighbouring settings have engaged with the programme.
We will also explore the impact on children's well-being and attainment, and impact on parents' attitudes.
- Target audience:
- Early Years
Forest School Training - Storytelling and Land Art with Richard Skrein
Join us for a day of exploring storytelling and land art with Forest School Association-Endorsed Trainer Richard Skrein.
Create, play and develop your skills in a stress-free and supportive atmosphere, leaving with lots of ideas to take back to your setting and learners.
Who should attend?
Forest School Leads or Level 2, Outdoor educators
- Target audience:
- Early Years
£84.00
(incl. VAT)Getting Ready for School
Course overview
This course focuses on the many skills that children will need to prepare them for school. This will include PSED and self- regulation as well as communication and language and physical skills.
The course will provide practitioners with an understanding of children's early reading and writing development and how 3-4 year old children can be supported to develop their literacy skills, alongside being emotionally prepared for school.The many ways we can teach self regulation will be explored.
It will also provide practitioners with some simple ideas that can be used to create home learning links with parents/carers.
Who should attend?
Practitioners working in private, voluntary, independent, maintained settings and childminders with children aged 0-5.
Heuristic Play and Treasure Baskets
This course provides information about babies' and infants' early development and how practitioners can use treasure baskets and heuristic play resources to support this. It explores the cognitive development of babies and infants and how the brain's neural connections are formed through quality interactions and an environment that supports sensory play and exploration.
- Target audience:
- Early Years
£0.00
(incl. VAT)How to interact effectively with Children to promote learning
This course focuses on strategies to promote children’s language, learning and concentration by engaging in conversations which sustain children’s thinking and develop their curiosity.
Who should attend?
Practitioners working in private, voluntary, independent, maintained settings and childminders with children aged 0-5.
- Target audience:
- Early Years
£30.00
(incl. VAT)Making Stories Come Alive
This course provides participants with ideas about how to bring children's story books to life. It enables participants to explore how stories can be shared in creative and interactive ways to support children's language skills and to encourage their enjoyment of books. The use of core books in Early Years practice will also be explored.
- Target audience:
- Early Years
Observation and Assessment Planning
This course will focus on the importance of observations and how to record and use the information to plan the next steps in learning, particularly in relation to the 'Progress Check at Two'. It will support practitioners to gain a sound knowledge of child development and to make appropriate judgements of children's progress. It will provide practitioners with the confidence to make the distinction between developmental concerns and behaviour typical of a developing child.
- Target audience:
- Early Years
£0.00
(incl. VAT)Outdoor Learning
Course Overview
This course addresses the learning which takes place outdoors, which is different from indoors.
As such, we will focus on the natural environment, with reference to the Forest School approach, and on physical development, with reference to Physical Literacy strategies, designed to ensure active learning, rather than sedentary behaviours.
Much of the course will take place outdoors, so that practitioners can be inspired by the stimulating environments and can practice some of the recommended strategies.
Who should attend?
Practitioners working in private, voluntary, independent, maintained settings and childminders’ with children aged 0-5.
- Target audience:
- Early Years
£30.00
(incl. VAT)Planning for Continuous Provision to Support Children's Independent Learning
This course clarifies what good continuous provision looks like and how to develop practice further. Exciting and interesting child-initiated activities that can be accessed independently throughout the day are an essential part of good Early Years provision.
- Target audience:
- Early Years
Promoting Diversity in Early Years
Course overview
This course will run over 2 half days -the course will explore issues relating to an anti-bias approach to race and gender equality, considering how to instil an anti-racist, anti-sexist ethos and practice in our settings.
We will discuss, for example, strategies to promote positive racial identity and to challenge traditional gender stereotypes, in order to create an environment where all feel respected, valued and special whilst actively challenging the barriers which young children experience from an early age. Much of the course will be interactive, exploring our attitudes and beliefs, in order to promote a shared outlook towards diversity.
Who should attend?
Practitioners working in private, voluntary, independent, maintained settings and childminders with children aged 0-5.
- Target audience:
- Early Years
£0.00
(incl. VAT)Supporting the Development of Babies
This course includes information and resources about how early development unfolds and what you can do to support young children's healthy growth and learning. The first three years of life are a period of incredible growth in all areas of baby's development. A newborn's brain is about 25% of its approximate adult weight, but by age 3 it has grown dramatically producing billions of cells and hundreds of trillions of connections. Between birth and age 3, babies learn to give and receive love; to roll, crawl, stand, walk and run; to talk, joke, rhyme and sing. Each child develops at their own pace and in their own way.
- Target audience:
- Early Years
£0.00
(incl. VAT)Understanding Children's Behaviour
This practical and highly interactive course shows delegates how to use everyday activities and situations to develop children's social skills. Children learn about behaviour all the time. During a typical day there are endless opportunities for practitioners to support the development of children's social skills and support positive behaviour. This course will support practitioners to understand behaviour as communication and a means by which children show us what they need. We will also look at High/Scope Conflict Resolution to help children in their daily interaction.
- Target audience:
- Early Years
Working with Two Year Olds
Who should attend?
Practitioners who are working with two year olds
Course overview
This course aims to focus on improving quality in working with two year olds. It includes elements of self-evaluation, action planning and improvement strategies.
To promote an understanding of how two year olds develop, to enhance understanding of the appropriate environment and resources, to promote planned appropriate adult directed and child initiated experiences.
- Target audience:
- Early Years