EYFS - A Unique Child

ACORN CHILDCARE TRAINING

• Celebrating festivals from other cultures and traditions: explores the importance of reflecting cultural diversity on a daily basis by looking at festivals from differing cultures and religions and developing ideas for play activities and resources that help raise children's awareness of the festivals celebrated in other cultures.

• ‘Battle stations’: working positively with superhero and weapon play: one-day course promoting positive approaches to children’s fascination with superheroes and weapons, and developing ways of using such play to enhance learning in the EYFS.

CHILDCARE CONSULTANCY

• Inclusive Practice

CHILDREN IN SCOTLAND

• Child bilingualism: one-day workshop addressing the advantages, misconceptions and approaches involved in working with children of parents who speak different languages.

CONCEPT TRAINING

• Inclusive play: workshop recommended for those working at developing an inclusive setting.

• Eating and drinking with safety and dignity: providing a basic awareness of people who have difficulty eating and drinking and suggesting ways to support them.

CRACKERJACK TRAINING

• Equal opportunities and diversity

DANCE IN A BAG

• Inclusion made easy – celebrating the unique child: this course is for practitioners who wish to understand how movement can help to celebrate the unique child, as well as how to integrate children who have a range of special educational needs.

DAYCARE TRUST

• Duty to provide information, advice and assistance on childcare: this one-day course includes how to meet the needs of low-income families and parents of children with special needs.

EARLY YEARS EQUALITY

• Equality Impact Assessments: this course explores best practice in undertaking Equality Impact Assessments in a variety of situations in the early years.

• Equal chances in the EYFS: a course assisting practitioners, managers and policy makers to consider and apply the principles of anti-discrimination, equality, rights and inclusion as a means of supporting the equal chances of all children.

• Mixed race not mixed up: enables practitioners to develop a pro-active approach to supporting mixed race children and families in early years settings.

• Anti-Gypsy and -Traveller racism – what can we do in the Children Service Sector?: this course challenges prevailing myths and stereotypes and supports practitioners in developing an anti-discriminatory and inclusive environment through the recognition and celebration of Gypsy and Traveller culture and traditions.

EARLY YEARS MATTERS

• Child development and inclusion: examining methods of supporting all children in a setting and of providing early intervention and support for vulnerable groups.

EARLY YEARS ORGANISATION

• The Media Initiative for Children (MIFC) respecting difference programme: this course addresses equal opportunities through a range of resources and activities in order to help participants implement the MIFC Respecting Difference programme into their settings and teach children to understand the meaning of acceptance and respect for others. The course will include three days of introductory training and one day of follow-up training.

EXPERIENTIAL PLAY

• Celebrating global children: this programme of twelve six-hour sessions will explore a variety of techniques to develop a deeper awareness of global human interest issues and context of the lives of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK in our pre-five settings. Topics include citizenship, physical play, equal opportunities, cultural identity, drama and role play and the importance of language.

FORBES TRAINING

• Inclusive practice

ICAN

• Supporting children with additional languages with speech, language and communication needs in the early years: one-day course designed to provide practitioners with the confidence and skills to identify and support bi/multilingual children. The course is taught through information-sharing, workshops and discussions.

KIDS

• Disability awareness: one-day course for practitioners in the early years, play and childcare sectors, as well as those working at a more strategic level across the children and young people's workforce. The course is designed to introduce participants to a new and challenging view of disability and support them to deliver a service that is open and accessible to all.

• Everyone can play: this three day course run over two to three weeks is certificated by Playwork Partnerships and aims to raise awareness of the issues around equalities and inclusion in play and childcare and the benefits of inclusive play.

• Playing on the rights’ side: an introductory course on the issues and implications of the Disability Discrimination Act and other equalities legislation for early years settings.

• Planning inclusive play: six-day course over three months enabling participants to develop their knowledge and practical understanding of disablism, inclusive play and its application in policy development through reflective participation. Endorsed at Level 3 by SkillsActive, the Sector Skills Council for Active Leisure and Learning.

• Play2gether: one-day interactive course aimed at helping play and early years workers provide an inclusive, playful environment for disabled and non-disabled children.

• Let's all play outdoors! uses a variety of inclusive outdoor games and activities to introduce participants to the principles of inclusion.

• 5 ways: two-day course aimed at giving parents/carers of disabled children the confidence to play with their children, allow them to take risks and give them new experiences.

KIDS CITY

• Disability awareness and inclusion: one-day workshop introducing ideas and techniques for enabling all children in the child-centred setting, and encouraging a ‘can do’ attitude to meeting children's special needs.

MUSIC FOR STARTERS

• Using music to support inclusion: examining the idea of using music to develop language, communication and interaction with children with any form of speech and language difficulty.

NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN (NSPCC)

• Diversity modules for early years settings: six modules of three hours increasing awareness of diversity issues in early years practice.

• Practical approaches to valuing diversity and safeguarding children: aims to equip participants to safeguard all children by the practical application of diversity and principles.

NOEL QUINN

• Make me a cape please – like a superhero: one-day workshop considering the needs of summer-born boys and how practitioners can best meet their needs to ensure they reach their potential.

NORTHERN IRELAND CHILDMINDING ASSOCIATION (NICMA)

• Equal opportunities: eight-hour course covering legislation, inclusion, respecting diversity, resources that promote equality of opportunity and challenging attitudes.

PERSONA DOLL TRAINING

• Equality in practice: course built around Persona dolls, which are a powerful tool for exploring, uncovering and confronting racism and other inequalities. This course is for early years practitioners, inspectors and lecturers looking for effective ways to challenge bias.

PLAY AND EARLY YEARS TRAINING UNIT

• Celebrating difference: examining the issues relating to equality and diversity and ways of celebrating difference in order to create an enabling environment.

PLAYGROUP NETWORK
Contact regional associations direct for details of training on:

• Valuing diversity

• Inclusion

PLAYTRAIN

• Disability, equality and inclusion: using the social model perspective, this course enables participants to explore disability issues including discrimination, inclusion, language and etiquette through a series of practical creative exercises.

POSITIVE IMAGES
(formerly the Working Group Against Racism in Children's Resources)
A range of one-day and half-day courses that will provide a forum for parents and professionals to discuss appropriate play and learning activities, resources and strategies for challenging racism.

• Evaluation and selection of children's resources in an anti-racist framework

• Celebrating festivals in an anti-racist framework

• Presenting positive images in posters and displays

• Building on bilingual skills in the early years: promoting first languages and exploring strategies for developing and maintaining bilingual skills.

PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT (PSD)

• Equal opportunities: two-day course covering understanding equal opportunities, discrimination, an anti-bias approach, dealing with abuse and discrimination.

• Diversity and cultural awareness

• How to include children in everything you do: exploring the importance of inclusion within an early years setting.

WALES PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUPS ASSOCIATION

• Playing together: course of 12 two-and-a-half-hour weekly sessions dealing with the integration of children with special or additional needs into an early years setting.

WEAVE RECYCLE

• Engaging boys in imaginative play: half-day course discussing ways of engaging boys in storytelling and role play using props and small world play.