Boosting Babies Brains Delivered by Becky Watanabe - £20pp Expand Upcoming Courses: Dates for the face to face version: TBC Dates for the online version: Tuesday 5th December 2023 (9:30am - 12:30pm) Overview: This exciting, practical workshop explores the importance of attachment and forming secure relationships with a key person in an enabling, sensory rich and nurturing environment. Consider how to provide a safe yet stimulating environment where a baby feels confident to explore the curiosities, awe and wonder of the world through their senses. Be sure to leave inspired with new ideas, delving in and enjoying the ride as you explore first-hand developmentally appropriate activities that stimulate all the senses, including two all-important sensory systems that are often overlooked. We look forward to taking you on an adventurous journey through the senses, unlocking the potential to boosting babies’ brain development. To book a course, please find the date you desire on our booking page and select 'book now' Overview: This exciting, practical workshop explores the importance of attachment and forming secure relationships with a key person in an enabling, sensory rich and nurturing environment. Consider how to provide a safe yet stimulating environment where a baby feels confident to explore the curiosities, awe and wonder of the world through their senses. Be sure to leave inspired with new ideas, delving in and enjoying the ride as you explore first-hand developmentally appropriate activities that stimulate all the senses, including two all-important sensory systems that are often overlooked. We look forward to taking you on an adventurous journey through the senses, unlocking the potential to boosting babies’ brain development.
Digging Deeper Into Sustained Shared Thinking Delivered by: Becky Watanabe - £25 per person Expand Upcoming Courses: Dates for the face to face version: Thursday 2nd November 2023 (9.30am - 12.30pm) Dates for the online version: TBC Overview: This course will provide you with a deeper understanding of Sustained Shared Thinking, what this is and how you can apply it to your practice. To book a course, please find the date you desire on our booking page and select 'book now'
From Good to Outstanding Delivered by Laura Andrews or Kim Langstaff - £25 per person Expand Upcoming Courses: Dates for the face to face version: Thursday 12th October 2023 (9.30am - 12.30pm) Thursday 14th December 2023 (9.30am - 12.30pm) Overview: This session is designed to enhance your provision and practice from achieving Good to being able to recognise how to achieve Outstanding. It will provide you with the opportunity to assess your current provision and identify how you can enhance it further, using the inspection framework. There will be opportunity for discussion, action planning and thinking creatively as a group to further develop your setting considering the specific inspected areas. This course is perfect for nursery managers, deputy managers or senior’s who want to develop their confidence during an ofsted inspection and want to understand how to achieve an ‘outstanding’ grade. To book a course, please find the date you desire on our booking page and select 'book now'
Invitations to Play & Using Natural Resources Delivered by Becky Watanabe - £25 per person Expand Upcoming Courses: Dates for the face to face version: TBC Overview: This course will provide you with knowledge of how to set up invitations to play and use natural resources confidently whilst being able to discuss and convey your intent, implementation, and impact. To book a course, please find the date you desire on our booking page and select 'book now'
Riding the Waves and Calming the Storm Delivered by Becky Watanabe - £20pp Expand Delivered by Becky Watanabe Dates for the face-face version of the course: Tuesday 26th September 2023 (9:30am - 12:30pm) Wednesday 22nd November 2023 (9:30am - 12:30pm) Dates for the online version of the course: Tuesday 22nd August 2023 (6:30pm - 9:30pm) Overview: This hands on and interactive course will equip you with the knowledge and skills need to help provide an enabling environment that promotes positive behaviour and tools needed to support children to calm big emotions. This course is aimed at those working with young children. Learning Outcomes: To prepare an enabling environment that promotes positive behaviour Identify what may trigger a child to become dysregulated Be confident to apply effective strategies to support children when experiencing and overcoming big emotions Be confident to use evaluative tools when working in partnership with parents and the wider team to promote positive behaviours To book a course, please find the date you desire on our booking page and select 'book now'.
Teaching & Learning Delivered by Jenny Barber - £25 per person Expand Upcoming Courses: Dates for the online version: TBC Overview: This course is for practitioners working in early years settings and will explore what is meant in practice by quality teaching and learning. It will unpick what exactly is meant by intent, implementation and impact and the role of practitioners. Learning objectives: • How children learn• How we provide an environment for learning ‘the environment cycle’.• What teaching in the early years means and how we can do this effectively.• How to recognise that learning has taken place and develop and support learning. To book a course, please find the date you desire on our booking page and select 'book now'
Understanding Compliance Delivered by Laura Andrews or Kim Langstaff - £45 per person Expand Upcoming Courses: Dates for the face to face version: Friday 6th October 2023 (9.30am - 3.00pm) Overview: This course is designed for Senior’s, Nursery Managers and Deputy Managers and will allow you to build on your understanding of compliance and Ofsted requirements. To book a course, please find the date you desire on our booking page and select 'book now'