Healthy, Well and Ready to Learn! - Leading School Readiness in Early Years Settings
Target Audience
This course is suitable for 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 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: Wednesday 23 September 2026
Time: 9.30am – 11.45am
Platform: Microsoft Teams - This course is being delivered via Microsoft teams. Please ensure your device is compatible. We recommend you access this through a computer or laptop for the best experience.
Cost: £20 per delegate
Facilitator: Early Years Education Team