I am delighted to offer training to:
Primary and Secondary schools
Early years settings
Special schools and specialist provisions working with the full age range
Academy Trusts
Parent Groups
Charities
Local Authority Professionals and Groups
Based in Northamptonshire I work both locally and nationally. Many trainings are twilights and evenings to suit people's availability as well as designated training days, and I am happy to offer weekends too. All trainings are based on practical ideas and strategies you can use with children immediately, and are ones I have tried and tested to meet children's needs. Many trainings also include access to resources I have written to help you with ideas and to plan for children's next steps.
Supporting Neurodiverse Learners
This includes recognising and understanding executive function skills such as potential differences in learning style and perception, supporting working memory, understanding and supporting response inhibition, attention and organisation in learning, supporting and developing visual perceptual skills, recognising sensory processing difficulties and supporting safety and comfort, providing needed brain and movement breaks. Lots of practical ideas, strategies and approaches to help tailor the right approach for each individual child.
Physical Literacy
It's a national buzz phrase! What is it? Why does it matter so much for school readiness and success in early development and the primary years? Helping children to develop real, global physical maturity in their hands, their body, their posture, their movements, their eye muscles, their ability to focus attention, to control impulses, is the root of success in school learning. And the great news for early years - it's all learned through play! Know the skills to build and the games to build them, and after that all you need to do is have a lot of active fun.
Early Years Play as the Crucial Foundations of Formal Learning
My favourite subject. When you push a child on a swing, you are teaching them to spell. When you give a child an aeroplane ride in your arms you are teaching them to read. When you blow bubbles and race cars, you're working hard on their writing. Learn why the every day active, fun play that young children need IS learning, true learning, that develops the brain and the body skills that reading and writing need for long term success, and must not be skipped over to try and rush children on to formal learning. Intended for all Foundation Stage staff, all staff working with older children whose learning is within the developmental stage 0-5, and for SENCos in Primary Schools needing to identify and meet developmental delays and gaps in learning. You'll never look at your toys in the same way again!
Supporting Behaviour Communication
My focus is developmentally young behaviour, 0-5, although this may include older children who are working within this developmental stage. All behaviour trainings are tailored to meet your particular need.
Topics have ranged from:
Facilitating staff to feel on the same page, to share and decide on strategies as a team and to update their policy
A range of ways to analyse and plan to meet behaviour needs and distress/overwhelm communications
Understanding the brain development 0-5 and the stages of behaviour, emotional and social skill development that grows alongside it,
A range of practical tips, strategies and approaches to meeting behaviour challenges
Supporting children with neurodiversity or who have experiences of trauma
Workshops for parents who are struggling to support children at home
let me know what you need to get out of a session and I can design the right pack for you.
Supporting Young Children with Autism and social communication difficulties 0-5
What is Autism, how can it affect young children, and what are the key things you need to do to help and support a child in your setting? Particularly for the child to feel safe, calm and able to communicate and play. While this is principally intended for staff working with Foundation Stage children, schools may have staff working with year one and above learners who they may feel would benefit from knowledge and support within this developmental stage.
Speech and Language development
For children at the pre verbal to one word/short phrase stage - how to spot key problems and have some key strategies to move communication along.
Play for Pre Pencil Skills
For Early Years Stage Children: how to help early years children be ready to write without ever picking up a pencil! Lots of practical and fun play ideas with the understanding behind it of what motor, visual and play development gets children ready to go into school at four with strong development, ready to succeed at learning to write.
For Schools: how to help your reception and year one children improve their early pencil skills, how to recognise the developmental markers of success for writing, and raise the standard of their writing.
Emotional Regulation
Another buzz phrase. What is it, how do we help children achieve it, and what other parts of development need support and experience to be strong in order to support it?
Connected to this I also offer training in understanding anxiety and trauma in children, and the experiences and differences of neurodiverse children, alongside strategies that support their wellbeing, emotional regulation and development.
Signing
How to do it, why it helps, and most importantly how to get signing into your setting so it gets used and lasts! This is a fun and very practical training with an opportunity to look at lots of resources that can help, and to plan how to develop signing in your setting.
All these trainings and more available now from Early Years SEN - do get in touch and I'll be delighted to see how I can help.
I am delighted to offer training to:
Primary and Secondary schools
Early years settings
Special schools and specialist provisions working with the full age range
Academy Trusts
Parent Groups
Charities
Local Authority Professionals and Groups
Based in Northamptonshire I work both locally and nationally. Many trainings are twilights and evenings to suit people's availability as well as designated training days, and I am happy to offer weekends too. All trainings are based on practical ideas and strategies you can use with children immediately, and are ones I have tried and tested to meet children's needs. Many trainings also include access to resources I have written to help you with ideas and to plan for children's next steps.
Supporting Neurodiverse Learners
This includes recognising and understanding executive function skills such as potential differences in learning style and perception, supporting working memory, understanding and supporting response inhibition, attention and organisation in learning, supporting and developing visual perceptual skills, recognising sensory processing difficulties and supporting safety and comfort, providing needed brain and movement breaks. Lots of practical ideas, strategies and approaches to help tailor the right approach for each individual child.
Physical Literacy
It's a national buzz phrase! What is it? Why does it matter so much for school readiness and success in early development and the primary years? Helping children to develop real, global physical maturity in their hands, their body, their posture, their movements, their eye muscles, their ability to focus attention, to control impulses, is the root of success in school learning. And the great news for early years - it's all learned through play! Know the skills to build and the games to build them, and after that all you need to do is have a lot of active fun.
Early Years Play as the Crucial Foundations of Formal Learning
My favourite subject. When you push a child on a swing, you are teaching them to spell. When you give a child an aeroplane ride in your arms you are teaching them to read. When you blow bubbles and race cars, you're working hard on their writing. Learn why the every day active, fun play that young children need IS learning, true learning, that develops the brain and the body skills that reading and writing need for long term success, and must not be skipped over to try and rush children on to formal learning. Intended for all Foundation Stage staff, all staff working with older children whose learning is within the developmental stage 0-5, and for SENCos in Primary Schools needing to identify and meet developmental delays and gaps in learning. You'll never look at your toys in the same way again!
Supporting Behaviour Communication
My focus is developmentally young behaviour, 0-5, although this may include older children who are working within this developmental stage. All behaviour trainings are tailored to meet your particular need.
Topics have ranged from:
Facilitating staff to feel on the same page, to share and decide on strategies as a team and to update their policy
A range of ways to analyse and plan to meet behaviour needs and distress/overwhelm communications
Understanding the brain development 0-5 and the stages of behaviour, emotional and social skill development that grows alongside it,
A range of practical tips, strategies and approaches to meeting behaviour challenges
Supporting children with neurodiversity or who have experiences of trauma
Workshops for parents who are struggling to support children at home
let me know what you need to get out of a session and I can design the right pack for you.
Supporting Young Children with Autism and social communication difficulties 0-5
What is Autism, how can it affect young children, and what are the key things you need to do to help and support a child in your setting? Particularly for the child to feel safe, calm and able to communicate and play. While this is principally intended for staff working with Foundation Stage children, schools may have staff working with year one and above learners who they may feel would benefit from knowledge and support within this developmental stage.
Speech and Language development
For children at the pre verbal to one word/short phrase stage - how to spot key problems and have some key strategies to move communication along.
Play for Pre Pencil Skills
For Early Years Stage Children: how to help early years children be ready to write without ever picking up a pencil! Lots of practical and fun play ideas with the understanding behind it of what motor, visual and play development gets children ready to go into school at four with strong development, ready to succeed at learning to write.
For Schools: how to help your reception and year one children improve their early pencil skills, how to recognise the developmental markers of success for writing, and raise the standard of their writing.
Emotional Regulation
Another buzz phrase. What is it, how do we help children achieve it, and what other parts of development need support and experience to be strong in order to support it?
Connected to this I also offer training in understanding anxiety and trauma in children, and the experiences and differences of neurodiverse children, alongside strategies that support their wellbeing, emotional regulation and development.
Signing
How to do it, why it helps, and most importantly how to get signing into your setting so it gets used and lasts! This is a fun and very practical training with an opportunity to look at lots of resources that can help, and to plan how to develop signing in your setting.
All these trainings and more available now from Early Years SEN - do get in touch and I'll be delighted to see how I can help.
