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Make sure your early years curriculum knowledge and skills are up to date. Take your pick from the courses around this summer and autumn Acorn Early Years Training runs courses on:

Acorn Early Years Training runs courses on:

* Achieving the Early Learning Goals through play. This course is for all Foundation Stage practitioners, and explores how the different areas of play can facilitate learning in each goal, and how to track and record that learning.

* Introduction to child development. This course is for new practitioners or those returning to childcare. It explores the different areas of development, by looking at various influences and the adult role in supporting and stimulating development.

* Using the outdoors. This course for all childcare and Foundation Stage practitioners explores a variety of ways of using the outdoor area as a leaning tool to stimulate development, including ways of creating a sensory area outside by growing flowers and vegetables.

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