Boosting Babies Brains Delivered by Becky Watanabe Expand Delivered by Becky Watanabe Our face to face courses are delivered at our Acorn Training Centre, 6 Wimborne Crescent, Westcroft, Milton Keynes, MK4 4DE. Overview: This exciting, practical workshop explores the importance of attachment and forming secure relationships with a key person in an enabling, sensory rich and nurturing environment. Consider how to provide a safe yet stimulating environment where a baby feels confident to explore the curiosities, awe and wonder of the world through their senses. Be sure to leave inspired with new ideas, delving in and enjoying the ride as you explore first-hand developmentally appropriate activities that stimulate all the senses, including two all-important sensory systems that are often overlooked. We look forward to taking you on an adventurous journey through the senses, unlocking the potential to boosting babies’ brain development. To book a course, please find the date you desire on our booking page and select 'book now'
Building Your Curriculum Delivered by Becky Watanabe Expand Delivered by Becky Watanabe Our face to face courses are delivered at our Acorn Training Centre, 6 Wimborne Crescent, Westcroft, Milton Keynes, MK4 4DE. Overview: Understanding the Intent Implementation and Impact of your Curriculum in Practice This interactive session will help you to understand what the EYFS looks like in practice and how this will be unique to all early years settings, and children. Activities and group discussions will help you to understand, and be able to articulate to others, what the intent is for the provision and how this is sequenced. We will explore the intent, implementation, and impact (the 3 I’s) of activities and experiences that help children to reach their full potential. Reflective discussions will help you to understand your pedagogy and how approaches to teaching supports connection, attachment and for children to learn most effectively. Invitations to play and opportunities to develop these in practice will equip you with new ideas of how to spark awe and wonder for children to be curious explorers. To book a course, please find the date you desire on our booking page and select 'book now'
Compliance In the Baby Room Delivered by Kim Langstaff Expand Delivered by Kim Langstaff Our face to face courses are delivered at our Acorn Training Centre, 6 Wimborne Crescent, Westcroft, Milton Keynes, MK4 4DE. Who is this course aimed at? This is a mandatory training course for practitioners working with babies, covering in the baby room or with responsibility for the baby room. Overview: This PowerPoint training offers a supportive approach to all practitioners working with babies, whether you are based in the baby room, or help in there on occasions. Reflective discussions, through a mixture of role play and scenarios, will enable practitioners to develop their understanding of the statutory elements of the baby room and how this is embedded within day-to-day practice. Learning Outcomes: To develop an understanding of compliance and how this works, specifically in the baby room. To understand what our roles and responsibilities are in relation to safeguarding. Explore the criteria of qualification in relation to statutory framework. To explore mealtimes, sleep times and intimate care routines and how they can be managed safely and effectively to prove a safe environment for babies. To book a course, please find the date you desire on our booking page and select 'book now'
Digging Deeper Into Sustained Shared Thinking Delivered by: Kim Langstaff Expand Delivered by Kim Langstaff Our face to face courses are delivered at our Acorn Training Centre, 6 Wimborne Crescent, Westcroft, Milton Keynes, MK4 4DE. Overview: This course will provide you with a deeper understanding of Sustained Shared Thinking, what this is and how you can apply it to your practice. To book a course, please find the date you desire on our booking page and select 'book now'
Domestic Abuse Delivered by Laura Tingey Expand Delivered by Laura Tingey Our face to face courses are delivered at our Acorn Training Centre, 6 Wimborne Crescent, Westcroft, Milton Keynes, MK4 4DE. Overview This training is designed to support those who work with children to understand what is meant by domestic abuse and the most common components of abuse. It will demonstrate how abuse may begin and who perpetrates and abuse and how to identify when abuse may be happening. The impact on children and families will be demonstrated and how this can be supported through local agencies. The course will give examples of how to respond appropriately to concerns about children and their families in relation to domestic abuse. To book a course, please find the date you desire on our booking page and select 'book now'
Five to Thrive Delivered by Laura Tingey or Becky Watanabe Expand Course Overview: The Five to Thrive training course focusses on attachment, trauma informed practice and resilience in a time of collective trauma. Participants will learn and understand how children’s brain development is affected by relationships and what we can do to help nurture children’s brain development and attachments. It will also promote the understanding of healthy brain development though discussion and practical activities. Learning Outcomes: • To learn about trauma informed practice.• To learn about stress and the varying levels of stress.• To learn about ACE’s (Adverse Child Experiences).• To learn about the survival response and the effects.• To learn about vagal tone and how to develop this.• To learn about co-regulation and self-regulation and to learn about attachment.• To understand the Five to Thrive approach. To book a course, please find the date you desire on our booking page and select 'book now'
Invitations to Play & Using Natural Resources Delivered by Becky Watanabe Expand Delivered by Becky Watanabe Our face to face courses are delivered at our Acorn Training Centre, 6 Wimborne Crescent, Westcroft, Milton Keynes, MK4 4DE. Overview: This course will provide you with knowledge of how to set up invitations to play and use natural resources confidently whilst being able to discuss and convey your intent, implementation, and impact. Upcoming Courses: Thursday 25th September 2025 (9:30am - 12:30pm) To book a course, please find the date you desire on our booking page and select 'book now'
MASH Delivered by Laura Tingey Expand Delivered by Laura Tingey Our face to face courses are delivered at our Acorn Training Centre, 6 Wimborne Crescent, Westcroft, Milton Keynes, MK4 4DE. Overview Our Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) training is designed to support professionals working with children to make effective referrals to the safeguarding hub. It will increase knowledge and understanding of the levels of need and threshold documents and how to use these to complete an effective MARF (Multi Agency Referral Form) and seek guidance and support from MASH. It will also provide information about how to challenge and escalate in cases and with referrals where needed. To book a course, please find the date you desire on our booking page and select 'book now'
Preparing Your Setting for Ofsted Delivered by Laura Tingey Expand Delivered by Laura Tingey Our face to face courses are delivered at our Acorn Training Centre, 6 Wimborne Crescent, Westcroft, Milton Keynes, MK4 4DE. Overview This training will help managers and senior staff to prepare for their Ofsted inspection, by understanding the Ofsted guidance and the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Guidance. It will help you to develop an understanding of where you are as a setting and what you can do as a team. It will enable you to establish what you need to focus on to get to Good or Outstanding. To book a course, please find the date you desire on our booking page and select 'book now'
Riding the Waves and Calming the Storm Delivered by Becky Watanabe Expand Delivered by Becky Watanabe Our face to face courses are delivered at our Acorn Training Centre, 6 Wimborne Crescent, Westcroft, Milton Keynes, MK4 4DE. Overview: This hands on and interactive course will equip you with the knowledge and skills need to help provide an enabling environment that promotes positive behaviour and tools needed to support children to calm big emotions. This course is aimed at those working with young children. Learning Outcomes: To prepare an enabling environment that promotes positive behaviour Identify what may trigger a child to become dysregulated Be confident to apply effective strategies to support children when experiencing and overcoming big emotions Be confident to use evaluative tools when working in partnership with parents and the wider team to promote positive behaviours To book a course, please find the date you desire on our booking page and select 'book now'.
Teaching & Learning Delivered by Jenny Barber Expand Delivered by Jenny Barber Our face to face courses are delivered at our Acorn Training Centre, 6 Wimborne Crescent, Westcroft, Milton Keynes, MK4 4DE. Overview: This course is for practitioners working in early years settings and will explore what is meant in practice by quality teaching and learning. It will unpick what exactly is meant by intent, implementation and impact and the role of practitioners. Learning Outcomes: How children learn. How we provide an environment for learning ‘the environment cycle’. What teaching in the early years means and how we can do this effectively. How to recognise that learning has taken place and develop and support learning. To book a course, please find the date you desire on our booking page and select 'book now'