Continuing Professional Development

Regular Termly Training

Specific Training/Meetings

Whole Setting Training

(Setting based)

New to EYFS (Vicky Hamlet/Pauline Liddle)

Tuesday 7^th February

1:30-2:30pm (MS Teams)

Kate Moxley (Author of ‘A guide to Mental Health for Early Years Educators’)

Early Years Wellbeing Training

(2 x half day sessions)

For Managers, Deputy Managers, Senior Leaders of PVI settings

(Places will be limited so please book early- contact Alison Scott)

The Orchard Centre

DAY 1 - Thursday 12^th January

9.00-1.00 OR 1.30-5.30

AND

DAY 2 - Thursday 23^rd March

9.00-1.00 OR 1.30-5.30

Building Foundations in Phonics (Carolyn Andrew)

New to Observation (Helen Tan/Carolyn Andrew)

Thursday 9^th March

9:30-11:30am (Face-to-Face – The Orchard Centre)

Supporting the Word Gap (Carolyn Andrew)  

(2-part training)

Part 1 – Thursday 26^th January 1:00-3:30pm                            (Face-to-Face – The Orchard Centre)

Part 2 – Thursday 9^th February 1:00-3:30pm

(Face-to-Face – The Orchard Centre)

Child Development (Vicky Hamlet)

The Requirements for Safeguarding within the EYFS (Pauline Liddle)

Monday 13^th March

1.30pm – 2.30pm (MS Teams)

Managing Allegations (LADO)

1:30-2:30pm

(Pauline Liddle)

(MS Teams)

6:30-7:30pm

Developing Early Number Sense in Young Children – Shorter version (Carolyn Andrew)

Safeguarding Cluster meeting

(Pauline Liddle)

Tuesday 21^st February  

1.30pm – 2.30pm (MS Teams)

6:30pm - 7:30pm

Supporting Parents using the ORIM Framework

 (Carolyn Andrew/Helen Tan)

Wednesday 8^th February               9.30am – 11.30am                      (MS Teams)

EAL Training (Helen Tan)

Developing Early Number Sense in Young Children

(Carolyn Andrew)

Thursday 9th February                     9:00-11:30am - The Orchard Cntr

Why Kindness Matters? A Whole Setting Approach

 (Helen Tan/Alison Scott)

Stories for Talking Training (Rebecca Bergman)

Thursday 23^rd February

9:30-4:00pm (Face-to-Face – The Orchard Centre)

Stories for Talking Twilight Network Meeting

Thursday 23^rd February                  4:15-5:30pm (Face-to-Face – The Orchard Centre)

(Open to any practitioner/setting who is using Stories for Talking p email Carolyn Andrew)

SEND for Childminders

Saturday 4^th March 2022 (Danielle Chelu)

9.00am – 11.00am (MS Teams)

PVI Managers Meeting

Thursday 9^th March

1:30-3:30pm (Face-to-Face – The Orchard Centre)

(Contact Helen Tan)

Early Mark Making

 (Vicky Hamlet)

Tuesday 16^th March                      1.30pm – 3.30pm (Face-to-Face –

Lemon Tree Children’s Centre HU7 5DD)

Kate Moxley – Early Years Wellbeing Training       (contact Alison Scott)                                                                                            To train a cohort of Early Years Wellbeing Champions who recognise the value and importance that looking after their own mental health and respecting the wellbeing of others can bring to their professional practice and work-life balance. Attending this training will equip educators with proactive and preventative strategies that promote and protect health and put wellbeing at the heart of their pedagogy and practice.

The training is suitable for managers, deputy managers and senior leaders of PVI settings who are willing and able to make a difference to their settings pedagogy and practice.

Attendance at BOTH sessions (2 x half day sessions) is required. Please state whether you wish to attend am or pm on day one AND either am or pm on day two.

Building Foundations in Phonics (Carolyn Andrew)                                                                                                                           This training will look at all the elements to build firm foundations in phonics, developing children’s auditory and memory skills through environmental sounds, instrumental sounds, voice sounds, body percussion, rhythm and rhyme, alliteration and developing phonological awareness through the communication and language curriculum, instilling an enjoyment of books, stories, songs and rhymes. (Aimed at practitioners working in PVI’s and 2-year-old & F1 school settings)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Child Development (Vicky Hamlet)                                                                                                                                          This course is a basic introduction into Child Development looking at the sequence of typical milestones children experience from birth and beyond. It will include factors which may affect a child’s development as well as ways to support development in a holistic way. We will explore the different stages of development and look at screening methods to support the stages.

Creative Mark Making (Vicky Hamlet)

This course explores the developmental milestones in relation to a child’s physical development looking at fine and gross motor movements. It will provide practitioners with ideas to promote innovative marks and the beginnings of early writing. It will also give practitioners check points to consider when assessing children’s Physical skills.

Developing Early Number Sense in Young Children (Carolyn Andrew)                                                                                                                         This training will look at what early number sense is and how an intuitive sense of number begins at a very early age. The course will explore how developing number sense can be nurtured in young children. It will look at subitising and how subitising can be used to support the development of early number sense (perceptual and conceptual subitising). We will look at teaching strategies to promote early number sense, providing ideas for activities.  

Safeguarding Cluster Meeting (Pauline Liddle)

This session is about sharing good practice, so please bring along any specific work that you are doing and are willing to share.

We will be discussing the Low Level Concerns policy and the Early Years Audit.

Safeguarding within the EYFS (Pauline Liddle)                                                                                                                      This is for new practitioners who have completed the New to EYFS. It looks further into your responsibility to safeguard children and what is expected within the EYFS framework.  The session looks into each of the safeguarding requirements, how to deal with a disclosure, the importance of training and the role of the partnership.

SEND – using observation and assessments to identify and plan for children with additional needs and/or disabilities (Danielle Chelu)

The session will enable Childminders to consider and develop current practice in relation to the SEND Code of Practice 2014. By identifying needs, working with other professionals, and ensuring that concerns, strategies and planning are documented appropriately Childminders will be able to support children to reach their full potential.

Stories for Talking – Delivered by Rebecca Bergman (Specialist Speech & Language Therapist)                                                                                                                                              Rebecca Bergman has developed a structured language programme to teach a range of language skills through stories, story themes and story time at three different levels – teaching vocabulary, building sentences and developing sequencing, and narrative skills. The programme can be successfully used with all children, but targets children with language difficulties to develop their language skills to help narrow the gap between them and their peers.                                                   Participants will be given the skills and knowledge to understand the rationale behind Stories for Talking, identify the language level of children, measure their progress, and deliver the programme successfully.

(Contact Carolyn Andrew)

Supporting the Word Gap (Carolyn Andrew)                                                                                                                                         Part 1                                                                                                                                                                                          -To consider what the ‘word gap’ means, looking at research and recent reports.                                              -To look at implicit ways of how practitioners can support vocabulary development through a language-rich environment, the use of high-quality interactions, and shared reading and storytelling.                                                                                                                                                                    Part 2                                                                                                                                                                                     -To look at explicit ways of how practitioners can support vocabulary development, looking at guidance on which words to teach and some activities that support vocabulary learning, to reinforce and review taught words.

Supporting Parents using the ORIM Framework (Carolyn Andrew & Helen Tan)                                                                                                             This training will teach practitioners about the ORIM framework and how it can be used to focus and enhance work with parents to support the early home learning environment with a focus on literacy.                                                                                  It will include learning from recent projects developed during the Covid-19 pandemic on how to use parent workshops to develop parent’s knowledge of the ORIM framework and how they can support their children’s learning at home.

Why Kindness Matters? A Whole Setting Approach (Helen Tan/Alison Scott)                                                                              At this current moment it has never been so important to look after our well-being and the well-being of those around us.  This course will explore why kindness matters and the importance of relationships in early years settings (for staff and children).  The training will include the science and theory alongside practical strategies to support well-being throughout your setting.