Healthy, Well and Ready to Learn! - Leading School Readiness in Early Years Settings
Target Audience
This course is suitable for Nursery Teachers, School Nursery Leads and Teachers, Room Leaders, Deputy Managers and Managers across Early Years settings.
Course Outline:
The overall aim of the course is to ensure that education professionals are confident in:
- What school readiness looks like in practice.
- Working backwards. How to plan a curriculum to ensure children are school ready.
- Pre-school rooms: what should this look like in practice.
- Looking at merged rooms.
On this course you will:
- Look at the national guidelines around School Readiness
- Look at the Baseline Assessment that Reception Teachers administer and your role in this as a Nursery.
- Planning and resourcing to ensure children are challenged appropriately in the pre-school environment.
- Discuss merging rooms. How could this impact learning and development?
- What Pre-School and nursery learning and development looks like at various points in the year.
- Using the School Readiness documentation to help you plan an effective pre-school year.
- Think about Phonics and mathematics and what this looks like in pre-school.
Date: Friday 25 September 2026
Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm
Venue: Holiday Inn, Commerce Road, Brentford, TW8 8G
Cost: FREE OF CHARGE
Facilitator: Early Years Education Team