EYFS Professional Seminar Programme – FREE to Attend

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Friday, April 27th
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11.00 Session The Revised Early Years Foundation Stage Framework Session Promoting Best Practice at Meal and Snack Times
Organisation Department for Education Organisation Pre-School Learning Alliance

Speaker Chris Barnham, Deputy Director (Early Years Quality and Standards) Speaker Melanie Pilcher, Policy and Standards Manager
Summary The Tickell Review into the Early Years Foundation Stage published its recommendations for a revised early years framework last year. Following an extended consultation period, the Government is due to publish its final response in the spring, with all early years settings expected to implement the new requirements from September. This DfE-led session will describe the findings of the consultation period and outline the new statutory framework, its importance in the wider context of the Government’s policies for the foundation years and the implications for early years settings. Summary Meal and snack-time in an early years setting is about much more than ensuring that children are given something to eat and drink. It is a chance to establish good habits, promote healthy choices and for meaningful interactions to take place. This session will define best practice and give participants an opportunity to reflect on their own attitudes and behaviours and how this in turn influences others. Using the Infant and Toddler Forum’s Ten Steps for Healthy Toddlers this session will demonstrate how simple, clear messages delivered with confidence and commitment, really do influence good habits for health, growth and development.
 
12.00 Session Regulation of Early Years and Childcare Providers Session Outdoor Play: Making the Best Use of the Outdoor Environment
  Organisation Ofsted

 Organisation Outdoor Matters

  Speaker Dee Gasson, Principal Officer, Childcare Registration and Enforcement Speaker Gail Ryder Richardson Early Years Trainer and Consultant on Outdoor Matters
  Summary As Ofsted concludes its review into the way it registers and inspects early years providers, including nurseries and child minders, this session will look at the issues under review, the responses from the consultation and the likely approach that will be taken, in light of the planned changes to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). Summary Do you believe that outdoor matters? Are you and your colleagues confident in the outdoors? What difference will the revised EYFS framework make to the way we use the outdoor environment? This seminar will examine the value and benefits of the outdoor environment for babies, toddlers and children under five, and it will consider how the revised EYFS framework impacts on the use of the outdoor environment. The seminar will be led by independent trainer and consultant Gail Ryder Richardson, who will convince you that the outdoor environment is special, and give you the confidence to be a playful and enthusiastic practitioner.
 
13.00 Session 2012 – A Year of Opportunity and Challenge – Putting Policy into Practice Session Supporting Children with English as an Additional Language (EAL)
  Organisation 4Children

Organisation Bracknell Forest Council in partnership with the Pre-School Learning Alliance

 
  Speaker Sue Robb, Head of Early Years Speaker Yulia Wayne, EAL Project Coordinator and Support Assistant (Russian) Anja Davies, EAL Support Assistant (German)
  Summary This seminar will outline the latest policy on early years provision in England, with a particular focus on the new EYFS and the two-year-old entitlement. As well as outlining policy it will focus on the practical implications of the changes, and the resources and support available to early years settings via the strategic partnership for the early years and childcare sector. Summary Children who speak English as an additional language require additional support and present particular challenges in early settings. This session describes how these children can be helped and supported in their learning and outlines the different resources and approaches available to early years providers.
 
14.00 Session Eat Better, Start Better – a Programme to Support Young Children and their Families to Cook and Eat Well Session The value of early years support for children with disabilities
  Organisation The School Food Trust / Children’s Food Trust

Organisation Early Support

  Speaker Laura Sharp, Nutritionist Speaker Dr Kim Bevan, Early Support
  Summary This seminar will describe the School Food Trust’s Eat Better, Start Better programme, including the newly published Voluntary Food and Drink Guidelines for Early Years Settings in England, offering practical support tools to put the guidelines into practice. Summary Early Support is the central Government mechanism for achieving better coordinated, family focused services for children and young people with additional needs and their families. This session will outline plans for the implementation of Early Support’s principles, the development of its resources, its professional development programmes and key working training. It will explore how you can become involved in improving services for children and young people with additional needs, from birth to adulthood.
15.00 Session Achievement for All: Improving Aspirations, Opportunities and Outcomes for All Children in Early Years Settings Session Supporting early years provisions for Babies: The Bournemouth BabyLink Network
  Organisation Achievement for All

Organisation Bournemouth Borough Council in partnership with the Pre-School Learning Alliance

 
  Speaker Sue Briggs – Achievement Lead Speaker Jean Lane, EYFS Development Team Manager
  Summary This session will explore how the Achievement for All framework aims to improve access, opportunities and achievements for all children, including those with challenging or special educational needs. It will describe the AfA programme, its national rollout, evaluation and findings and discuss how the framework can be used in early years settings. Summary This session examines the practical responsibilities and challenges in providing care for babies in early years settings. It outlines how the Bournemouth BabyLink Network provides support for those working in the baby rooms of the borough’s day nurseries and the resources available to them.
16.00 Session Story matters: Developing Literacy in the Early Years Environment Session Speech, Language and Communication in the Early Years
  Organisation Centre for Literacy in Primary Education

Organisation The Communication Trust

  Speaker Jane Bunting, Lead Advisory Teacher (Early Years) Speaker Kate Freeman, Professional Advisor
  Summary This session will explore the nature of literacy development in the early years setting, looking at practical approaches and activities to support the provision of a broad, rich language environment in which literacy can develop and flourish. Summary Delayed language skills in very young children can have a significant impact on their later development. This session will outline how language skills develop, how to assess language and communication skills in early years, how to promote language and communication skills in this settings and how to support children with delayed language and communication skills. It will also provide information on continuing professional development and the qualifications and resources available to early years professionals.

 

Saturday, April 28th
  Stream A Stream B
11.00 Session The Revised EYFS Framework: Preparing for Implementation Session Parents as Partners
Organisation The National Day Nurseries Association

Organisation Toolbox Community Interest Group

Speaker Laura Robshaw, Quality Manager, The National Day Nurseries Association Speaker Abigail Norton, Director
Summary With radical changes to the Early Years Foundation Stage set to be implemented from September, this seminar will outline how day nurseries and other early years settings can prepare for its implementation. What changes to your provision and your setting must you have in place by September 1st and how best can you be ready? Summary What goes on in the home is crucial to a child’s achievement, and never more so than in the early years. Yet many parents might have no idea of their importance in teaching a child to talk, let alone read or count. This workshop looks at ways early years practitioners and settings can overcome barriers to build a partnership with parents (including dads). We will look at a range of activities you can do with so-called ‘hard to reach’ families to raise understanding and aspirations and to change lives. The workshop will also give attendees ideas of resources and support that may be available to them locally or nationally to continue this work.
 
12.00 Session Peer support networks for childminders Session Designing an Enabling Outdoor Environment
  Organisation NCMA

Organisation Play Learning Life

  Speaker Sarah Read, NCMA Tutor Speaker Julie Mountain,
  Summary NCMA Local is a National Childminding Association initiative, which has received Department for Education funding for a national pilot scheme of peer support networks for childminders and nannies. The scheme reflects the key role that childminders and nannies play in the development and learning of the children they look after. This session will provide an overview of the role a network can play in supporting practitioners to sharing problems and to learn from other local professionals. Providing benefits for personal development as well as for the children they look after. Summary Most early years providers are aware of the benefits of outdoor play and learning but often feel bewildered as to where and how to start. Asking the question ‘what do we want to able to do outdoors?’ rather ‘what do we want to have outdoors?’ this session will provide a step-by-step approach to creating an exciting, inclusive and low cost outdoor play space:

  • What do high quality design enabling outdoor environments look like?
  • Where are we now, where do we want to be, how will we get there?
  • Establishing what you really need in your setting – auditing
  • Making the changes
  • Reflection – your next step
 
13.00 Session Professional development: The Training and Qualifications Framework for Early Years Professionals Session The Creative Use of New Technologies in Early Years Education
  Organisation Best Practice Network

Organisation Lambeth City Learning Centre

  Speaker Maureen Lee, Director of Early Years and Children’s Workforce Development Speaker Sarah Horrocks, Director
  Summary This seminar will describe the current training and qualifications framework open to early years professionals, outlining:

  • The current qualifications framework, including the EYPS and HLTA qualifications
  • The professional standards required
  • The remit of the current Nutbrown review of early education and childcare qualifications and any likely changes
  • What managers should be providing for their staff
  • What individuals can do to progress their personal professional development
 Summary Lambeth City Learning Centre is a social enterprise which supports schools in the creative and effective use of new technologies across the curriculum. In this session, Sarah will show how new technologies can support:

  • Children’s ability to observe, reflect, respond and communicate
  • Practitioners’ ability to record children’s learning and present their work to the wider world
  • Families’ engagement with their children’s learning
 
14.00 Session Including disabled children and children with special educational needs in the early years Session Provision and practice for children under three
  Organisation  Church Park Consultants

Organisation The National Day Nurseries Association

  Speaker  Julie Revels, Lead Consultant Speaker Laura Robshaw, Quality Manager, The National Day Nurseries Association
  Summary This session outlines the key messages for early years providers about inclusion in light of the EYFS, Equality Act and the Special Educational Needs and Disability Green Paper. It will describe what makes good inclusive practice, where providers and practitioners can go to find out more information and resources, and how to gain more confidence and knowledge in working with disabled children or with special educational needs. Summary This session will describe best practice with children aged under three in early years settings – what provision and supervision is required, what changes will the revised EYFS framework bring and how is care and learning enhanced for this age cohort.
15.00 Session Employment Law for Early Years Providers Session Synthetic Phonics in the Early Years
  Organisation HR4Nurseries

Organisation Teach to Read

  Speaker Jacqui Mann Speaker Elizabeth Nonweiler
  Summary This seminar will explore the HR policies and procedures that nurseries and other early years providers legally need to have in place, including any recent changes in employment law introduced over the past 12 months. It will cover disciplinary procedures and recruitment, including advice on how to follow the correct recruitment procedures to ensure the safeguarding and protection of the children in your care. Summary This session will explore what synthetic phonics is and why we should teach it, how the alphabet works, when systematic phonics lessons can begin and what activities are suitable for pre-school children.

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