As part of our commitment to the development of our staff, we hold four training days every year, covering a variety of sessions that develop our staff teams' skills, knowledge, confidence and provides up-to-date changes within the Early Years sector.

On Tuesday 29th October we held a training day for our nurseries in Milton Keynes, and on Wednesday 30th October we held a training day for our nurseries in Northamptonshire & Bedfordshire!

Thank you so much to all our trainers who provided brilliant, insightful and fun sessions to help inspire and expand the knowledge of our staff teams!

Across these two days we welcomed…

• Kirstine Beeley who delivered 'Physical Development in Outdoor Learning'

 

• Ben Kingston-Hughes who delivered 'Adventurous Play, Risk, and Challenge' and 'Positive Children, Positive Behaviour'
• Tammie Redman who delivered 'Basic Safeguarding'
• Tiny Talk who delivered 'Baby Talk'
• Tigerlily who delivered 'Paediatric First Aid' 

We also held sessions delivered by our internal trainers. Here are some of them:

• Relational Pedagogy with Zoe Raven (Acorn's CEO) and Gemma & Donna (Our Senior Forest Schools Managers & Trainers)

• 5 to Thrive with Laura Tingey (our Head of Early Years & Compliance) and Becky Watanabe (our Early Years Manager & Trainer)

  

 

• Developing Eco-Friendly Practices with Santa Svike (our Sustainability Lead)
• Learners Workshop – Characteristics of Play with Charlotte Kent (our Training & Development Manager)
• Preparing for Ofsted with Kim Langstaff (our Early Years Manager)/Kate Ayres (our Senior Nursery Manager)
• Compliance in the Baby Room with Lim Langstaff (our Early Years Manager)

• Team Building with Sue Fenton (our HR Manager)
• Nature Pedagogy with Zoe Raven (Acorn's CEO) and Kim Langstaff (our Early Years Manager)

What a successful set of autumn training days! Our staff teams cannot wait to share and implement the new things they have learnt, within the nursery settings!