Early Years and Childcare Service - Virtual Learning Opportunities

This two-hour training session has been developed for new and existing members of pre-school committees or for those who are perhaps thinking of joining. The course will help all committee trustees learn how to identify and understand legal requirements, commitments and responsibilities whilst planning for trustee and provision continuity.

Up to 16 delegates can attend this event.

Learning outcomes:

• Gained an understanding of government departments and legal framework that are statutory requirements necessary to run a Charity Pre-school
• Gained an understanding of the roles and responsibilities of trustees and how to conduct their duties
• Improved planning skills for trustee and provision continuity.

Up to 16 delegates can attend this event

Pricing:

Settings:
KCC funded for Kent settings 2 hour individual training £26 +VAT;

KCC funded for Kent settings group training £380 +VAT (In house)

Childminders:
KCC funded for Kent settings 2 hour individual training £26 +VAT;

KCC funded for Kent settings group training £270 +VAT (In house)

This webinar is aimed at new SENCOs or SENCOs wishing to refresh their knowledge. The session provides a good introduction to the one-day SENCO course.

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

Training Objectives

• To enable practitioners who are new to the role of Special Needs Coordinator to gain an up-to-date grounding of Kent processes and underpinning knowledge required to begin your SENCO journey.
• To assist you in developing key skills needed that can enhance your work with children and families.
• To provide opportunities to begin to develop best practice to support children in your setting.

Half-day course
Maximum number of delegates: 25

Pricing

£36 +VAT per person centrally funded for Kent settings - Fully booked

A recorded webinar for Early Years and Childcare professionals.

This bitesize webinar is designed to help to understand the stages of anxiety and to give practical ideas about how adults can support children’s mental health at each stage. We will explore strategies to support children to deescalate and to regulate their emotions and consider what support adults may need.

Pricing 

£15 +VAT Per Person

This webinar provides insight into the child's world by celebrating difference and valuing diversity in our early years settings. The session aims to challenge attitudes and explore practical strategies to make sure every setting provides a completely inclusive experience for all children and where they and their families feel welcomed and supported.
The session will enable delegates to make positive changes to their practice by reflecting on different ways to influence stronger inclusive practice in their own setting.

Training Objectives

Learn that inclusion is about attitudes as well as behaviours and practice.

• Think about your own inclusive values how this is made clear through everyday policies, provision and practice
• Explore ways to work with families and children to ensure that they have a voice and feel welcomed, included and supported.
• Learn about ways to provide a rich inclusive play environment that reflects our diverse communities and represents unique children and their families.

Pricing

£36 +VAT per person

This course, run by The Education People is accredited by the CPD Certification Service. The course has reached required Continuing Professional Development standards and benchmarks and the learning value has been scrutinised to ensure integrity and quality. The CPD Certification Services provides recognised independent CPD accreditation.

Delegates must have access to their own copy of:

Early Years Inspection Handbook September 2019
Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation stage 2017
Inspecting safeguarding in the early years, education and skills settings September 2019.

This event will run as two interactive Zoom sessions. Confirmed delegates will be emailed the links 24 hours prior to each session. Please ensure you are able to access Zoom at least one hour prior to the sessions.

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

Training Objectives

• Understand the Ofsted inspection process.
• Know and understand the documentation that informs the inspection process.
• Evaluate current practice and provision in relation to the inspection process.

Pricing

£75 +VAT per person (two sessions)

The webinar is designed to help you on your journey to become good or better early years providers. It is an opportunity to learn and to promote understanding of the Ofsted application and registration process.

The webinar will help you to explore the statutory duties and identify the requirements to enable you to be prepared for your Ofsted registration. The webinar also contains information on running an effective business and provides details of supporting children in Kent with Special Educational Needs and disability.

Pricing 

£26 +VAT per person

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

From Little Worriers to Little Warriors: Supporting Anxious Young Children

This online workshop will explore anxiety in young children; what makes them worry and what keeps them worrying. It will give ideas about how pre-school settings, together with parents and carers can reduce anxious feelings empowering young children to be brave.

Pricing 

£26 +VAT per person - Course ended

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

Early experiences shape babies' development and the importance of attachment cannot be underestimated. Have you ever watched in awe and wonder at the intensity of communication between a baby and its primary care giver?

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

Training Objectives

• Identify how relationships and everyday experiences shape a baby's brain.
• Distinguish how and what babies learn through physical play.
• Identify the development norms for babies and young children's communication and language development.

Pricing

Group (In-house) - £621+VAT 

This workshop will support understanding of the impact behaviour and attitudes have on children’s life chances.

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

All delegates must have access to a copy of:

• Education inspection handbook May 2019
• Early years inspection handbook for Ofsted registered provision May 2019
• Inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and skills May 2019.

Training Objectives

• Identify how practice links to the grade descriptors.
• Consider the ways in which children demonstrate their attitudes and behaviours through the characteristics of effective learning.
• Explore a whole team approach to behaviour and attitudes.

Pricing
Group (In-house) - £380 +VAT

A recorded webinar for potential childminders or those thinking of becoming a childminder.
For those considering going into childminding we offer a childminding briefing session, free of charge to Kent residents only, which provides delegates with information to help them to:

• decide if childminding is the right career for them
• consider the business and regulatory implications of becoming a registered childminder
• proceed with the registration process.

Pricing

KCC funded 

This webinar supports childminders to understand the key points to consider prior to taking on an assistant and how to support them once in place.

As their setting grows childminders may consider taking on an assistant, which could allow them to care for additional children and help to develop their business further.

Content includes:

Key considerations to explore prior to recruiting an assistant
The recruitment process
Key requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) in relation to the induction and supervision of staff.
This webinar focusses on the requirements of the EYFS. It does not aim to give advice linked to employment law or Her Majesty’s Revenues and Customs (HMRC).

Pricing 

£26 + VAT Per Person

This training will explore behaviour and social learning in the early years.
In this session we will be looking at how children learn and how they communicate their feelings and needs.

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

Training Objectives

• To gain an understanding of children's behaviour as a communication.
• Develop a realistic view of what is reasonable to expect of the child considering their previous experience age, stage, ability, understanding, personality and current experiences of daily life.
• To learn strategies that will support the adult child interaction and to consider adult interaction styles and feelings.

Half-day course
Maximum number of delegates: 25

Pricing

£36 +VAT per person

Group (In house) - £380 +VAT

Webinar - £26 +VAT per person

This early years training will develop your knowledge and understanding about how children learn English as an additional language. It will provide effective strategies and explore what an effective and inclusive environment looks like so that you can inspire and support them to reach their potential.

Training Objectives:

• understand issues related to EAL
• build on children’s experiences of home language at home and in the wider community
• learn practical strategies to support the acquisition of English.

SPECIAL OFFER:  If you buy a place at our EAL training you can purchase a copy of our Getting it Right for Children and Families with EAL in the Early Years for the reduced price of £15 (normally £25).  Just email [email protected] advising that you have booked your place and would like to buy a copy for only £15.

Pricing

Group (In house) - £380 +VAT

The course will enable you to identify children who may need additional support in their learning and development at an early stage. This is a key principle of the Special educational needs and disability code of practice (2015).

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

Training Objectives

• To gain a deeper understanding of the importance of the role of parents/carers in building a picture of a child’s learning and development.
• To learn about the graduated approach based on a cycle of action in order to make accurate assessments about children’s learning and progress.
• To learn about the difference between developmental delay and SEN.

Half-day course

Maximum number of delegates: 25

Pricing

£36 +VAT per person

Group (In-house) - £380 +VAT

Webinar - £26 +VAT per person

This early years course will support your knowledge and understanding of the revised Development Matters. It will provide you with help meeting the requirements of the Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage 2021

Training Objectives

• Provide a brief overview of the educational programme.
• Explore the seven key features of effective practice.
• Understand the intention of the observation checkpoints.

Pricing

£36 +VAT per person 

Group (In-house) - £380 +VAT

Fostering a Love of Writing-Inspiring Young Writers in the Early Years Foundation Stage

This inspiring and informative half day zoom training combines information on current research and practical ideas to broaden your understanding of the ways young children can be motivated to become competent writers.

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

Training Objectives

• Explore the essential knowledge, skills, understanding and attitudes needed to become a writer.
• Understand children’s development from birth to identify the skills, behaviours and attitudes required to become successful writers.
• Identify the important role of the practitioner to plan for and share a culture of writing.
• Explore a range of practical ideas to motivate children to engage in early writing experiences.

Pricing

Group (In-house) - £380 +VAT

This course will demonstrate the impact on your business of accruing bad debts and teach you the break-even process, to help your business become sustainable.

Up to 16 delegates can attend this event with a maximum of 2 delegates per setting.

This half day course will help you to:

• consider the impact of bad debt on your business and how this can be managed
• calculate your break-even
• look at ways of decreasing costs and increasing income.

Pricing

KCC funded for Kent Settings  £48 +VAT per person (face to face)

I CAN Early Talk Boost is a pre-school language intervention designed for children aged 3-4 years who have delayed language development. The intervention helps to boost their language skills, helping to narrow achievement gaps between them and their peers.

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

Training Objectives

To develop participants:

• understanding of the Early Talk Boost activities and confidence in delivering the intervention
• knowledge of how to identify children who will benefit from Early Talk Boost and monitor their progress
• understanding of working with parents to support their child's communication and language development.

Half-day course

Maximum number of delegates: 25

Pricing

£36 +VAT per person 

I CAN Talk Boost KS1 is a targeted and evidence-based intervention programme, which supports children with delayed language in Reception and Key Stage 1 to make progress with their language and communication skills.

It is delivered in primary schools by classroom teachers and assistants and provides a structured programme that accelerates children’s progress in language and communication by an average of 18 months after a ten-week intervention.

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

Training Objectives 

• Understanding of the rationale behind Talk Boost KS1.
• Understanding of the importance of good speech, language and communication skills.
• Ability to identify and select children who would benefit from Talk Boost KS1 and measure their progress.
• Ability to understand the Talk Boost KS1 activities and how to support children’s communication.
• Ability to deliver the Talk Boost KS1 intervention successfully.

Pricing 

Group (In house) - £380 +VAT 

Kent's Approach to an Integrated Review at Two

A 25 minute pre-recorded webinar for Early Years Managers and Deputies, Early Years Practitioners, SENCO, Childminders and Childminder assistants.

The webinar will support early years providers to understand Kent’s approach to an Integrated Review at Two, the model and process to follow. Detailed explanations are provided on the process to ensure early years providers are pro-active with implementing it to meet the needs of young children and families in Kent.

Pricing

KCC funded

To strengthen leaders knowledge and understanding of the leadership and management judgement in the education inspection framework (EIF) and the impact on practice

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

Training Objectives 

• Reflect on the new grade descriptors for leadership and management.
• Compare your current position with Ofsted’s expectations.
• Identify areas for further improvement to secure a good or better judgement at your next inspection.

Links to additional training - three day leadership and management professional development programme

Pricing

£36 +VAT per person
Group (In-house) - £380 +VAT

Pricing

£36 +VAT per person

Group (In house) - £380 +VAT

Webinar - £26 +VAT per person

This exciting workshop has been designed to support all early years practitioners in supporting the mathematical development of young children. It will offer ideas and opportunities to ensure that your curriculum is exciting and challenging for all children both indoors and outside.

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

Training Objectives 

• To 'see' mathematics in children's play.
• To recognise the mathematical potential in the environment, everyday resources and routine.
• Review and interpret the aspects of mathematical development in the Early Years Foundation Stage.

Pricing

Group (In-house) - £380 +VAT

This course will highlight the importance of making accurate assessments, and establishing children's starting points, following Covid 19. It will support delegates to accurately identify childrens current stage of learning and development, monitor their progress, and be able to identify any emerging needs.

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

Training Objectives 

• Understand the importance of establishing children's starting points, through accurate assessment, following Covid 19.
• Learn how to make accurate assessments, and ensure consistency across the whole staff team.

Pricing

Group (In house) - £380 +VAT

The Makaton Workshop Level 1 online course, delivered by qualified Makaton regional tutors, provides a practical introduction to Makaton for workers, parents and carers who need to use Makaton in everyday situations, at home and/or at work. You will learn the signs and symbols for Stages 1 & 2 of the Core Vocabulary plus half of the Additional Vocabulary. The course is very practical and interactive.

The cost of the workshop includes the required training manual, postage of the manual to your home address, and the cost of posting your certificate to you following the training.  Please keep your attendance certificate as you will need it if you wish to attend the Level 2 Workshop.

In order to attend this training you will need access to a stable internet connection and a full size laptop, iPad or similar. The training course is not suitable to be delivered or attended on a mobile phone. You will need to see the tutor and other participants clearly, and they will need to see you, from at least the top of the head to waist height.

The training is delivered by fully qualified Makaton tutors using Zoom. There are 2 sessions of a maximum of four hours each, delivered over two separate days. Please note that the maximum number of delegates for this course is 8.

The interactive Zoom training will be delivered over two sessions on two separate days.

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

Training Objectives

On completion of the Level 1 Workshop participants should:

• know about the history, design and structure of the Makaton Core and Resource Vocabularies
• be able to use signs and symbols from Stages 1 & 2 and half of the Additional Vocabulary in their daily environment, and use signing techniques for placement, directionality and movement
• know how the signs used with the Makaton vocabulary are derived
• have a knowledge of the different approaches available to develop the communication skills of a wide range of Makaton users
• be informed about the other Makaton Training Courses and Workshops.

Full-day course split over two days

Pricing

Virtual
£95 +VAT plus £26.50 for materials**

*charge of manual and certificate

**charge of manual, certificate and postage and packaging

Are you looking for training to gain a deeper insight into children’s progression in mathematics? This half day zoom training will help you explore exciting and innovative ways to teach mathematical concepts whilst making mathematical learning meaningful across the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum.

After attending this training you will:

• Develop an understanding of how children learn mathematics.
• Recognise the importance of dedicating time for children to learn mathematics and integrate mathematics throughout the day.
• Understand how manipulatives and representations can be powerful tools for supporting young children with mathematical ideas.

Target audience Early Years Practitioners/ Early Years setting Manager/Childminder eligible and registered and assistants/ Early Years Teachers/ Early Years Teaching Assistant.

Pricing

Group (In house) - £380+VAT

Effective marketing will help you to maintain the long-term sustainability of your setting. The aim of the course is to consider the key elements of marketing and how you can build them into your marketing plan to inform existing parents/carers and attract new ones.

Training Objectives:

• the importance of marketing and planning
• how to identify key sales techniques and effective PR
• marketing methods
• digital marketing, including social media.

Pricing

KCC funded for Kent settings   £36 +VAT per person 
KCC funded for Kent settings  £380 +VAT Group (In house)

This workshop will support delegates to consider the effectiveness of provision on children’s all-round age and stage of development

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

Training objectives

• Explore responsive sensitive and stimulating relationships – The role of the key person.
• Examine the importance of being physically active and supporting healthy choices.
• Explore preparing children for life in Modern Britain including developing an understanding and appreciation of diversity.

Pricing

Group (In-house) - £380 +VAT

Are you confident and secure in how you will provide a well-balanced curriculum that will support all of your children in the early years?
This three-hour virtual workshop will help you enhance the quality of your teaching by exploring the concept of planning a responsive and enriched curriculum centred around moments led by children.
Delegates must have sight of the Development Matters-Non statutory curriculum guidance for the early years foundation stage September 2020.

Training Objectives 

• gain underpinning knowledge of the pedagogical approach to planning an early years curriculum.
• be able to demonstrate how to use child-led moments to enhance learning and development.
• explore strategies to implement and embed planning into consistent practice.

Pricing

£36 +VAT per person - Fully booked

This interactive workshop will support you to explore what the quality of education means for children’s learning and development with the Ofsted education inspection framework.

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

Training Objectives

• Explore key terminology within the framework and its implication for practice.
• Consider to what extent the curriculum is designed, planned and sequenced to build on what children know and can do.
• Scrutinise the criteria for each of the grade descriptors and action areas for improvement within your setting.

Pricing

£36 +VAT per person 

Group (In-house) - £380 +VAT

This new and exciting half day zoom training has been expertly written for Early years professionals who wish to extend and enhance the literacy and communication skills of the children in their setting  by using Aspect Seven of Letters and Sounds and ignite children’s desire to read and write.

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

Training Objectives

• Revise the terminology of phonics.
• Strengthen the understanding of Aspect Seven within Phase one Letters and Sounds.
• Gather a range of practical activities to successfully deliver Aspect Seven.

Pricing

Group (In-house) - £380 +VAT

Do you understand and value the importance of supervision and appraisals? Is it an area that you need to develop and further enhance? This half day practical training will support you to develop strategies and procedures to best support your team development through the effective implementation of effective supervisions and how to use appraisals to develop your teams potential

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

Training Objectives

• Enhance your knowledge and understanding of supervisions and appraisals.
• Develop your skills to carry out effective supervisions and appraisals.
• Consider the benefits of supporting individuals through effective supervisions and appraisals.

Pricing

Group (In-house) - £380 +VAT

This webinar is one of three modules created to provide information and guidance to support the Government’s aim of an Integrated Review at Two.

The webinar will support early years providers in understanding their statutory responsibility to complete an Early Years Foundation Stage Progress Check at Two, which now forms part of the Integrated Review at Two process in Kent. Information will be provided on how to complete the check, what should be included and who should be involved.

Pricing 

KCC funded

How to Problem Solve in the Early Years.

This workshop will challenge practitioners to develop skills, knowledge and concepts necessary to support children’s critical thinking and problem solving. There will be a combination of research evidence and practical ideas to develop adults confidence to support young children.

Training Objectives

• Explore the research that supports the importance of higher order thinking
• Gain a repertoire of practical ideas and experiences in all areas of learning including Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
• Appraise the role of the adult in supporting the “thinking child”

Pricing

£36 +VAT per person

A pre recorded webinar for Early Years Managers, leaders, SENCo, Early Years Practitioners , Childminders, Childminders Assistants and Playworkers.

This is a short, 25-minute, webinar that will provide practitioners with simple techniques that when fully embedded in practice can make a significant difference to helping all children to develop crucial communication and language skills. The techniques can be shared with parents to support a joint approach and shared understanding.

Pricing

Webinar - £15 +VAT per person

Do you enjoy reading? Do you use ambitious words with your children? Isabel Beck's work on the tiers of language shows how we can teach words that the children will need for lifelong learning. You will explore how rich language experiences can be introduced. A range of activities will be shared that will help build a repertoire to be used in your setting.

Training Objectives

• Explore your own attitudes to reading
• Identify strategies which can enable children to develop children’s vocabulary
• Investigate the practical applications of introducing higher order language.

Pricing

£36 +VAT per person

Unlocking Outstanding Potential - Pathway to Excellence (Virtual) 

This innovative and interactive leadership programme has a variety of strategies and opportunities to facilitate early years and childcare provisions to maintain, strive and sustain outstanding practice and performance.

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

Training Objectives

• Explore your knowledge and understanding of the requirements of being outstanding.
• Develop a clear ethos and vision for your own setting to move to outstanding.
• Review staff disposition and attitude to promote exceptional outcomes for children.
• Foster a culture of outstanding practice.

Pricing

Group (In-house) - £621 +VAT

Do you remember being fascinated by everything and everyone around you, having that innate urge to explore using your senses? You will have an opportunity to explore and discuss the prime areas for learning and how theory and practice can be combined to provide a stimulating and enabling environment for the two year olds in your provision.

Please note that Zoom courses are not recorded.

Training Objectives 

• Examine the theory about the needs and development of a two year old.
• Explore and discuss the importance of the key person approach.
• Audit your provision and identify areas for development.

Pricing

Group (In-house) - £380 +VAT

Supporting children to have high levels of wellbeing and involvement will impact on other areas of learning and development and contribute to positive mental health in later years. The design of this training is based around the work of Professor Ferre Laevers of the University of Leuven in Belgium who has worked closely with Kent’s early years and childcare sector.

Training Objectives:

• identify the indicators and Leuven levels for wellbeing and involvement
• explore the 10 action points and how these can be used to improve outcomes in children’s personal, social and emotional development
• reflect on the quality of practice and environments in relation to children’s wellbeing and involvement.

Pricing

Group (In-house) - £621 +VAT