Overview
We offer bespoke training that can be delivered at your school or setting and is tailor made to your requirements. All our Early Years Learning and Development courses are available as bespoke full day, half-day training, twilight sessions or at staff meetings. We are also able to offer safeguarding refresher courses.
We may also be able to provide other bespoke training courses as required. We are flexible and will aim to deliver the course at a time to suit your needs.
What's included?
Our training focuses on the whole school or setting, ensuring a focused, pedagogically sound, evidenced based approach to establishing effective EY provision to ensure long term benefits to children’s learning. Whole team training ensures a consistent message is delivered, shared priorities are agreed and action plans focused on improving outcomes in a manageable and systematic way.
The range of support available include:
- How to teach phonics in early years
- Early literacy
- Attachment and the key person
- Expressive arts and design: using open ended materials
- How to interact effectively with children to promote learning
- Understanding children's behaviour
- Outdoor learning
- Tuning into boys
- Safeguarding refresher
Promoting diversity in early years
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 own attitudes and beliefs, in order to promote a shared outlook towards diversity.
Helicopter stories
This course will explore an approach developed by Vivian Gussin-Paley which encourages young children to use their imagination to make up stories and then act them out. In so doing, we address gender equality, self-esteem, literacy, drama and fantasy play.
The attendees will have the opportunity to create and act out a story. Suitable for a staff meeting or twilight session
Effective early years practice
This session will examine the role of the learning environment, indoors and out, and how to promote children’s independence and self-regulation, whilst referring to the new EY curricula, the Revised Development Matters and Birth to Five Matters (Early Years Coalition). Suitable for a staff meeting or twilight session
Preparing for Inspection support pack
This package is designed to provide managers with the tools to lead an inspection in order to show the provision at its best, and enable your staff team to feel empowered and confident to manage the inspection process. Covering statutory requirements, policies and documentation. What is included?
- Pre course meeting
- 2 day whole team training (or 4 half days)
- 2 x post course observations(coaching for staff or manager
- 1 report after all sessions
- Option for more sessions
Individual courses/training sessions or packages are available at competitive prices.
We welcome participation to our training from settings within and outside of Hackney.
Why you should choose us
Our consultants have a clear understanding of the challenging context within which schools and settings operate, which is vital in developing a transformation programme for Early Years.
We work in partnership with a wider network including Health, Early Help and family support, Children’s Centres, extended day and holiday programmes which ensures a more holistic approach to training.