Workshops and webinars
We offer dozens of workshops and webinars on a range of essential subjects. We can even tailor the course content to help you address specific areas of learning and development for your early years practitioners.
Click on the title of the workshop to discover more about the course content, availablity and prices.
Common Inspection Framework
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
Common Inspection Framework
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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From judgements to British values, the essential guide to the Common Inspection Framework.
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Target Audience:
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Childminders
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Aims:
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To explore how the common inspection framework affects Early Years settings
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Learning Outcome:
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- Define what is meant by a common inspection framework
- Explore why the change has come about
- Identify the changes
- Explore what the inspectors will be looking for, including British values
- Demonstrate ways to be “ready for inspection”
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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An understanding of the EYFS Statutory Framework
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Delivery options:
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Face to face or webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Safeguarding and welfare requirements
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use in aiding practitioners in understanding the Safeguarding and Welfare requirements of the EYFS
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Target Audience:
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Early years and childcare professionals
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Aims:
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To explain the safeguarding and welfare requirements
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Learning Outcome:
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- Identify the EYFS safeguarding and welfare requirements
- Define next steps
- Demonstrate your ability to review and update documentation
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face or webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Business side of childminding
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
Business side of childminding
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use in providing training for practitioners to understand the importance of business planning
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Target Audience:
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Childminders
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Aims:
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- explore effective financial record keeping
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Learning Outcome:
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- Describe what business planning is.
- Identify why business planning is important.
- Create effective business plans for the setting.
- Create effective financial records for HMRC
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Observation, assessment and planning
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
Observation Assessment and Planning
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use in aiding practitioners to begin to observe, assess and plan for children following the Early Years Foundation Stage
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Target Audience:
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Early years and childcare professionals
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Aims:
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To explore the EYFS requirements and why we need to observe, assess and record developmental steps for under 5s
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Learning Outcome:
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- Identify why practitioners need to observe, assess and record evidence of development in line with EYFS
- Identify how practitioners need to observe, assess and record evidence of development in line with EYFS
- Explore ideas for planning for under 5’s using the EYFS
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face or webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Learning rich environments to inspire and motivate 2-year-olds
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
Learning rich environments to inspire and motivate 2-year-olds
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Guide price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use in aiding practitioners in supporting children’s development of personal, social and emotional skills.
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Target Audience:
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Early years and childcare professionals
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Aims:
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- To understand why it is important to provide a learning rich environment to inspire children to develop their personal, social and emotional skills
- Consider a range of theories and strategies to support the provision of high quality environments
- To provide the opportunity for practitioners to reflect, develop current provision and share ideas
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Learning Outcome:
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- Describe personal, social and emotional development (PSED) and its importance for a child’s well-being, learning, achievement and economic circumstances.
- Identify the development of a child’s personal, social and emotional skills at the age of two.
- Identify a range of strategies to support the provision of learning rich environments to inspire and motivate the development of children’s personal, social and emotional skills.
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face or webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Progress check
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
Progress Check
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use in aiding practitioners in understanding the requirements of the EYFS progress check
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Target Audience:
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Early years and childcare professionals
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Aims:
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To explore the format of the progress check, what might be included and the value of information sharing
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Learning Outcome:
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- Identify the purpose of the progress check
- Identify the supporting documents
- Define the differing types of assessment
- Identify what needs to be included
- Analyse progress check templates
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Duration
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One hour
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face or webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Listening to the views of young children
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
Listening to the views of young children
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use in aiding practitioners in understanding the scope of listening to the views of young children
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Target Audience:
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Early years and childcare professionals
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Aims:
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- To understand how listening to the views of young children is embedded in current legislation, and in particular the EYFS.
- To provide practitioners with strategies to implement listening to young children as routine
- To consider the importance of listening to the views of young children in relation to their learning and development
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Learning Outcome:
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- Outline the legislation surrounding the importance of listening to young children
- Recognise ways we can listen to young children
- Describe how listening to children and responding to their choices affects their development
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face or webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Improving quality
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
Improving Quality
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use to support practitioners in identifying the concept of quality and why it matters.
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Target Audience:
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Childminders
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Aims:
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- To define the concept of quality and why it matters
- To enable participants to examine the quality of their own practice
- To identify how to start the process of quality improvement
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Learning Outcome:
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- Explain what is meant by quality
- Explain why quality is important
- Identify how to assess the quality of their own practice
- Identify sources of support and guidance
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face or webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Writing policies
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
Writing policies
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use in aiding practitioners in writing policies that are meaningful for their settings
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Target Audience:
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Childminders
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Aims:
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- To explore what policies mean to a setting
- To be able to create meaningful policies for a specific setting
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Learning Outcome:
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- Define what a policy is and why they need to be personalised to truly reflect individuals working practice
- Identify how to link policies to the EYFS requirements
- Demonstrate ability to add procedural information to policies
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face or webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Equal opportunities
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
Equal Opportunities
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use in aiding practitioners in understanding the scope of equal opportunities
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Target Audience:
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Early years and childcare professionals
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Aims:
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To explore the scope of Equal Opportunities and use this to reflect on practice and policy in the setting
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Learning Outcome:
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- Explore current legislation in relation to Equal Opportunities
- Identify good practice in relation to Equal opportunities
- Explore approaches to challenging discriminatory behaviour in children and adults
- Recognise individual needs for developing a policy and identify any further support or training needs
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face or webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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The seven areas of learning and development
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
The Seven areas of Learning and Development
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use in aiding practitioners in understanding the seven areas of learning and development of the EYFS
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Target Audience:
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Early years and childcare professionals
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Aims:
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To explore the prime and specific areas of learning and recognise the effective characteristics
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Learning Outcome:
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- Identify the characteristics of learning
- Define the value of the three prime areas
- Identify the changes from the six areas of learning and development to seven revised areas
- Demonstrate how the three prime and four specific areas can shape educational programmes
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face or webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Risk assessment
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
The Seven areas of Learning and Development
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use in aiding practitioners in understanding the seven areas of learning and development of the EYFS
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Target Audience:
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Early years and childcare professionals
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Aims:
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To explore the prime and specific areas of learning and recognise the effective characteristics
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Learning Outcome:
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- Identify the characteristics of learning
- Define the value of the three prime areas
- Identify the changes from the six areas of learning and development to seven revised areas
- Demonstrate how the three prime and four specific areas can shape educational programmes
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face or webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Constructive feedback
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
The Seven areas of Learning and Development
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use in aiding practitioners in understanding the seven areas of learning and development of the EYFS
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Target Audience:
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Early years and childcare professionals
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Aims:
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To explore the prime and specific areas of learning and recognise the effective characteristics
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Learning Outcome:
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- Identify the characteristics of learning
- Define the value of the three prime areas
- Identify the changes from the six areas of learning and development to seven revised areas
- Demonstrate how the three prime and four specific areas can shape educational programmes
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face or webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Assertiveness
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
Assertiveness
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use in aiding practitioners in understanding the value of assertiveness
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Target Audience:
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Early years and childcare professionals
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Aims:
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- To introduce the concept of assertiveness and encourage childcare practitioners to value themselves,and so build their self-esteem and self-confidence.
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Learning Outcome:
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- Formulate an understanding of what is meant by assertive behaviour.
- Assess the importance of developing positive self-image in building self-esteem and self-confidence.
- Examine some aspects of building their own self-confidence.
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Expectations of behaviour
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
Expectations of Behaviour
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use in aiding practitioners in setting realistic expectations for behaviour and writing a policy to support this in their settings
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Target Audience:
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Childminders and Nannies
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Aims:
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To review your personal framework of expectations regarding children’s behaviour
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Learning Outcome:
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- Identify reasons why children may sometimes behave in unacceptable ways
- Identify and evaluate positive ways of encouraging acceptable behaviour working in partnership with parents
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face or webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Parents as partners
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
Parents as Partners
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use to support practitioners in valuing the importance of parents as partners.
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Target Audience:
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Early years and childcare professionals
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Aims:
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- To explore the possible challenges of working in partnership with parents
- To explore strategies that support effective partnerships
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Learning Outcome:
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- To identify possible challenges and how to overcome them
- Demonstrate effective techniques to partnership working
- To clarify the requirements of the EYFS framework
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face or webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Self-evaluation form
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
Self Evaluation Form
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use to support practitioners in completing the Ofsted Self Evaluation Form
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Target Audience:
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Childminders
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Aims:
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- To explore reflective practice
- To identify how reflective practice feeds into a self evaluation form
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Learning Outcome:
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- Identify how and why practitioners need to reflect
- Explore ideas for each area of the Ofsted SEF
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Using digital images to support learning journals
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
Using digital images to support learning Journals
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use in providing training for practitioners to understand how to use digital images to support learning journals
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Target Audience:
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Early years and childcare professionals who wish to improve their use of digital images
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Aims:
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To have confidence in using digital images to support learning journals
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Learning Outcome:
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- Identify why digital images have a part to play in learning journals
- Recognise the ICO and data protection requirements when digital images are used
- Describe how to alter images
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face or webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Sharing learning journals - supporting transitions
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
Sharing Learning Journals-Supporting Transitions
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use in providing training for practitioners to appreciate the importance of sharing children’s learning journals to support transitions between settings.
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Target Audience:
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Early years and childcare professionals
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Aims:
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To explore how the information recorded in a child’s learning journal can support a child through transitions To consider barriers to information sharing
To consider documentation required to enable information to be shared
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Learning Outcome:
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- To define what transition means
- To be able to identify how the information recorded in the learning journal can support children’s transitions
- To identify and over come perceived barriers to information sharing
- To be able to create appropriate documentation to enable information to be shared with other care providers
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face or webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Boys will be boys
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
Sharing Learning Journals-Supporting Transitions
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use in providing training for practitioners to appreciate the importance of sharing children’s learning journals to support transitions between settings.
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Target Audience:
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Early years and childcare professionals
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Aims:
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To explore how the information recorded in a child’s learning journal can support a child through transitions
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To consider barriers to information sharing
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To consider documentation required to enable information to be shared
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Learning Outcome:
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- To define what transition means
- To be able to identify how the information recorded in the learning journal can support children’s transitions
- To identify and over come perceived barriers to information sharing
- To be able to create appropriate documentation to enable information to be shared with other care providers
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face or webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Treasure baskets and heuristic play
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
Treasure Baskets and Heuristic Play
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use in providing training for practitioners to recognise the value of treasure baskets and heuristic play.
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Target Audience:
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Early years and childcare professionals
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Aims:
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To explore the benefits of Treasure Baskets and Heuristic play.
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Learning Outcome:
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- Identify the benefits of Treasure Baskets and Heuristic play in meeting children’s individual needs.
- Demonstrate how to source materials for Treasure Baskets and Heuristic play
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face or webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Developing outdoor play
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
Developing outdoor play
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use to support practitioners in developing outdoor play
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Target Audience:
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Early years and childcare professionals
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Aims:
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- To identify the benefits of outdoor play
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Learning Outcome:
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- To recognise the importance of outdoor play
- To identify how outdoor play can support all areas of learning and development
- Demonstrate how to support and develop outdoor play
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face or webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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Activities for over-8s
Course type:
Workshop
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Title:
Activities for over 8s
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Guide Price:
£29 f2f / £14.40 Webinar
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Overview
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The materials in this workshop are intended for use in providing training for practitioners in appropriate activities for over 8’s
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Target Audience:
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Early years and childcare professionals
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Aims:
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- To identify interesting activities solely for over 8’s
- To differentiate planned activities for a range of ages
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Learning Outcome:
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- To identify the requirements of the over 8’s
- To plan appropriate activities to meet the needs for the over 8’s
- To demonstrate how to include over 8’s in activities with other age ranges
- To be able to support an over 8 by creating a journal that they can record their thoughts and achievements
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Duration:
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Two hours
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Accreditation:
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No
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Prerequisites:
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None
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Delivery options:
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Face to face or webinar
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Available to:
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Local Authority, individual purchase
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