minds4learning: Inset Day Package
We can provide this package on any of the LA suggested dates (2/9/15, 22-23/10/15, 4/1/16, 21/7/16)
or a date that suits you.
Developing Quality Provision for 2 year olds
A three day package for practitioners and leaders in settings providing places for 2 year olds. If you are interested please contact us in the usual way to discuss further.
We can accept attendees for single elements of the package (though you will gain disproportionately by attending all 3!)
Day 1: The Wonder of 2
We will focus on:
Day 2: A Good Place to be 2
We will focus on:
Day 3: The 2 Year Old Check: keeping the conversation going
We will focus on:
Early identification of development needs
How the voice of the child can be heard in the check
The role of the emotionally responsive key person
Facilitators: Helen Banks, Gill Coathup, and Felicity Thomas
We can accept attendees for single elements of the package (though you will gain disproportionately by attending all 3!)
This package costs £400 (20 attendees) per day. Mileage is charged at 40p per mile. For larger groups please contact us or click here.
Click here to book:
We can accept attendees for single elements of the package (though you will gain disproportionately by attending all 3!)
Day 1: The Wonder of 2
We will focus on:
- What it means to be two: research on the development of 2 year olds.
- Significant attachments: the role of the key person as a secondary attachment figure.
- The role of the key person as ‘teacher’.
- How 2 year olds think: schematic development, recent research.
- Supporting the Prime Areas of Learning and how they link to the Specific Areas.
- Observing 2 year olds: Plan, Do, Review
Day 2: A Good Place to be 2
We will focus on:
- Providing a developmentally appropriate and rich learning environment both indoors and outdoors.
- Supporting learning and development within an enabling environment.
- The role of an emotionally responsive adult in supporting learning and development
- The need for an emotionally safe environment where children can be active, relax, explore, and imagine and where their well-being is nurtured and enhanced.
Day 3: The 2 Year Old Check: keeping the conversation going
We will focus on:
- Key aspects of child development: ‘What to Expect When’
- Establishing starting points, observing and monitoring progress.
- What processes do we have for sharing information with parents and carers and other agencies involved with the child?
- Home learning: parents and practitioners working together to improve outcomes for children.
- The Two Year Old Check:
Early identification of development needs
How the voice of the child can be heard in the check
The role of the emotionally responsive key person
Facilitators: Helen Banks, Gill Coathup, and Felicity Thomas
We can accept attendees for single elements of the package (though you will gain disproportionately by attending all 3!)
This package costs £400 (20 attendees) per day. Mileage is charged at 40p per mile. For larger groups please contact us or click here.
Click here to book: