Early Years Managers
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Transitioning to Primary School
We offer a variety of packages and services that support you as early years managers in your crucial role of helping children to transition to school. Effective transitions are crucial to children’s learning, development and most importantly emotional well-being.
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Science in the Early Years
We recognise the importance of bringing science into early years. The government currently has an agenda for STEM with children 5+, but we passionately believe in cultivating this from the beginning of their childhood. We offer 4 packages with this in mind.
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Creating awe and wonder
Children are naturally curious about the world around them and approach challenges like mini-scientists. They see the world with fresh and curious eyes. We offer a twilight session that focuses on creating awe, wonder and curiosity through science in the early years.
Online Training
We offer online training for a variety of different aspects for early years, many of our face to face courses can be booked online. We appreciate that attending training in person cannot always be achievable, therefore we have worked hard to develop our online services.
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Developing the Role of the Key Person
We offer training that looks at developing the role of the key person. This is because we passionately believe in the role of the key person to support children and help them to learn and thrive. This course explores the vital role of the key person as a team in your setting and how that you can develop this further.
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Phonics in the Early Years Training
In recent years there has been an increase emphasis on the teaching of phonics in the early years, even with the mention of phonics in the new Early Years Inspection Framework (2019). This course offers an understanding that there is much more to early phonics then learning our a,b,c’s.
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For the Love of Traditional Tales
Stories are a gateway to developing children’s communication and language and development. Traditional tales are magical and engaging to young minds. We offer a training course that is aimed to inspire and ignite passion for story telling and actively unpacking traditional tales with children.
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Phonics in the Early Years packages
We offer packages that look at phonics in the early years. Phonics is a crucial pre-requisite to early reading and writing, but goes much deeper then simply learning our names and sounds of letters. Our packages offer different support at different levels from information, training, too a consultant attending your setting to run a phonics session.
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Storytelling packages
Stories transport children to another world they develop their communication and imagination. We offer a variety of packages that allow you to ignite your passion and enthusiasm for sharing stories and using them as a stimuli to children’s learning and development. These include things such as training and a consultant attending to run story sessions.
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Communication & Language
Across the UK a growing number of children do not obtain their early learning goals for communication and language. Being able to effectively communicate with others is crucial to learning. We offer a training course that looks at communication and language development in children and exploring how we can support their development and learning.
Staff Meeting Series
We are launching a unique package on the 31st January 2021 that aims to support early years managers in bringing continuous professional development into staff meetings. Comprised a set of 20 short videos, that look at different aspects of practice with accompanying activities.
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Maths in the Early Years
Our Maths in the early years course, explores mathematical development in children and how they learn and acquire new skills. It looks at how mathematical learning is all around us and how to incorporate mathematical learning into the everyday; in a stimulating, exciting and engaging way.
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Audit Packages
We offer a range of audit packages that look at developing your setting with you. Our skilled consultants use their range of expertise knowledge and current research to advise and support change. We support settings in developing action plans and ways to continuously develop.
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Manager Support Packages
We understand that the role of a manager can sometimes be rewarding, amazing, but also isolating and hard work. We offer packages that support you personally in the difficult decisions you have to make and our passionate about supporting the emotional well-being of managers within the sector.