Early Years Team Workshops & Professional Development
Practical, floor-ready training sessions designed to elevate practitioner confidence, deepen pedagogical understanding, and transform room practice across your setting.
Floor-Ready CPD Built for Early Years Practitioners
Flexible Delivery Formats: Available as full-day inset sessions, targeted half-day workshops, or twilight staff meeting sessions.
Tailored to Your Setting: Content is customised based on your team's specific experience levels, room challenges, and setting priorities.
Evidence-Based & Compliant: Mapped to current statutory EYFS frameworks, SEND guidance, and contemporary early childhood research.
Investment: £750 full day or £450 half day. (Save money with annual plans, if booking multiple.)
Why Interactive Team Workshops Are Essential
Running an early years setting requires constant adaptation to shifting regulatory standards, evolving child needs, and room dynamics. While statutory training like Paediatric First Aid and basic Safeguarding keeps your setting legally compliant, targeted team workshops bridge the critical gap between knowing the guidance and applying it on the floor.
- Translating Theory into Practice: Theory alone doesn't prevent room dysregulation or manage complex SEND needs. Interactive workshops give staff concrete strategies, real-world scenario practice, and co-regulation tools they can use the very next day.
- Boosting Staff Retention & Confidence: High practitioner turnover often stems from feeling overwhelmed and under-supported. Investing in meaningful professional development builds team confidence, reduces burnout, and fosters a unified setting culture.
- Elevating Inspection Readiness: When inspectors evaluate your setting's Quality of Education and Leadership & Management, they look at how effectively staff articulate practice. Shared team training ensures every practitioner speaks the same language.
How Many CPD Hours
Should Early Years
Practitioners Complete?
While the UK statutory EYFS framework does not mandate a rigid "capped number" of annual CPD hours, it statutorily requires setting leaders to provide continuous training, coaching, and supervision to ensure practitioners remain competent and up to date.
To maintain high-quality practice and meet inspection expectations, early years sector best practice recommends:
Full-Time Practitioners: 20–30 Hours per year
Room Leaders & SENCos: 30–40 Hours per year
Setting Leaders & Managers: 40+ Hours per year
Explore Our Individual EYFS CPD Training Workshops
Safeguarding & Statutory Compliance
Deepening staff vigilance, identifying subtle indicators of harm, managing low-level concerns, and mastering reporting pathways.
SEND & Inclusion
Navigating the Graduated Approach (Assess-Plan-Do-Review), writing effective Individual Support Plans (ISPs), and adaptive room setups.
Behaviour as Communication
Reframing challenging behaviours, understanding developmental triggers, meeting unmet sensory/emotional needs, and de-escalation.
Emotional Regulation & Co-Regulation
Adult-led co-regulation strategies, calming sensory techniques, and helping children move from dysregulation to self-regulation.
Trauma-Informed Practice (PACE)
Applying Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, and Empathy (PACE) to support children experiencing trauma or chronic stress.
Therapeutic Play & Emotional Literacy
Using play techniques to build emotional vocabulary, foster self-expression, and support children's mental health.
Bereavement, Loss & Significant Life Changes
Supporting young children through grief, family separation, housing changes, and emotional loss with compassion and structure.
Play Therapy Principles in the Early Years
Bringing foundational play therapy techniques into daily provision to support attachment and emotional processing.
The 7 EYFS Areas of Learning
Enhancing continuous provision, pedagogy, and interactions across both Prime and Specific developmental areas.
Smooth Transitions & School Readiness
Minimising transition anxiety for room-to-room moves and preparing children holistically for Reception.
Early Sign Language (BSL / Makaton)
We have trainers for both Makaton and BSL to suit all settings. Keyword signing strategies support non-verbal children, EAL learners, and inclusive room-wide communication. We also train in grammar and full conversational Sign Language to support all needs.
Speech, Language & Communication Needs (SLCN)
Identification of early speech delays, communication-rich environment design, and targeted language intervention.
Leadership, Coaching & Supervisions
Mentoring room leads, conducting impactful supervisions, managing team dynamics, and articulating the setting vision.
Staff Wellness & Workplace Boundaries
Managing practitioner overwhelm, building emotional resilience, setting healthy workplace boundaries, and preventing burnout.
Wellbeing and Mental Health First Aid Lead Training
Empower your setting's designated Wellbeing Lead. Learn practical strategies to support staff mental health, reduce burnout, and foster a positive culture.
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How to Structure Your Setting's CPD Hours Effectively:
- Statutory Refresher Hours (Mandatory): Safeguarding updates, Paediatric First Aid, food hygiene, and health & safety routines.
- Pedagogical & Development Workshops (Core Practice): Focused team training on behaviour as communication, trauma-informed care (PACE), early speech & language, and EYFS curriculum progression.
- Reflective Supervision & Coaching (Ongoing): Regular 1-to-1 supervision sessions, floor-level mentoring, and internal peer observations.
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