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Staff Training


Staff training and development: 

An important aspect of what we do is ensuring that we always stay upto date so our knowledge is fresh and relevant. We also like to try new training to bring new ideas to the Pre- School about how children learn and develop. There are also statutory courses that we need to undertake to ensure that we can deal with any safeguarding concerns (see safeguarding tab) and first aid etc. 

Below you will find a table of what our staff team have been working towards this year, if you have any questions or would like some more information on how the training has impacted the setting then please ask and we would be happy to share our learning with you. 

 

Staff member  Training 
Amanda Ranger 

Prime Importance of physical development (2022) 

Paediatric first aid  

The Prevent Duty

Food Handling

Basic Safeguarding

Rachel Ivory 

 

The Prevent Duty 

Peadiatric First aid

Food handling 

Letters and sounds

Online safety awareness training 

Autism awareness training 

Designated safeguarding refresher 

designated safeguarding refresher 

Prevent duty 

Curriculum training 

Level 2 food hygiene certificate 

Sally Smiith 

The Prevent duty 

Sustained shared thinking - Why are clouds fluffy? 

Letters and sounds

Food handling 

Online safety awareness training 

Autism awareness training 

The Prevent duty 

Basic safeguarding refresher 

Prevent duty 

Safeguarding refresher 

Curriculum training 

Level 2 food hygiene certificate 

Louise Crossley 

The Prevent Duty 

Peadiatric first aid 

Letters and sounds 

Food handling 

Online safety awarness training 

Autism Awareness training 

The Prevent Duty 

Basic safeguarding refresher 

Prevent duty 

Safeguarding 

Curriculum training 

Level 2 food hygiene certficate 

Tina Thomas 

Autism Awareness 2022

Curriculum training 

Safeguarding 

Level 2 food hygiene certficate 

Miranda Stratton

Planning a curriculum 2022

The Prevent Duty 

Foundation stage language for learning

Early Years SENCO refresher 

Letters and sounds

Achieving positive behaviour

Language for learning 

Food handling 

Online safety awareness training 

Autism Awareness training 

Building social skills using LEGO and other toys 

Peadiatric first aid 

Best practice guidance refresher 

Basic safeguarding refresher 

Prevent duty 

Safegaurding 

Curriculum training 

 


Alison Dixon  

Targeted support for communication and Language 2022

Level 2 food hygiene certificate 

Paediatric First Aid

 

Wednesday 11th March 2020

On Wednesday 11th March, the staff stayed behind to complete their safeguarding refresher training, we had a safeguarding lead from the Education People come in to share their knowledge and update the staff. Staff are required to undertake this 2 hour training every 3 years, however Miranda and Rachel are the deisgnated safeguarding leads who undertake a full days training every 2 years with regualr updates inbetween. If you ever have any questions regarding our training then please ask. 

 Wednesday 4th September 2019 

On Wednesday afternoon we had Claire Barwood from the Midas center come into the setting to complete 3 hours training with us on Autism awareness training. We learnt alot about how to spot the signs of autism and how drs and other professionals will come to the decision to diagnose. We then disucssed what it is like to be an autistic child and how our rotuines at Pre -School need to be adapted to suit the needs of all our children. As a staff team we found the training so beneficial to us in understanding the world through an autistic child's world. If you have any concerns then please come and speak to your child's key person and SENCO and we can support you in anyway we can. 

 Wednesday 27th March 2019 

Today we paid for an adviser from The Education People to come into the setting and train us all on letters and sounds. This was paid for from the EYPP money that the setting recieves. 

We looked at phase one letters and sounds and explored the 7 areas which are the building blocks to children learning to read through letter sounds and segmenting. 

The training was hands on and gave us lots of ideas that we can impliment in the setting with groups of children. Keep a look out for some parent packs that we will be creating to support the letters and sounds framework at home. 

If you have any questions then please do ask the staff they will be happy to share with you what we have been learning. 

Please find some photos below of the staff interacting in the training afternoon......

 Letters and Sounds 2

We went outside to explore the sounds that we could hear....we then played a game singing higher and lower when the person was near the hidden object. 

Letters and sounds

Kyra is playing the rhyming hat game, we have to sing a song then find to items in the hat that rhymed. 

Letters and sounds 3_1

We explored a song that looked at using musical instruments in different ways could we resond to instructions to shake the instruments loud, quiet , fast and slow this all incorpates early responses to music and sounds. 

All staff have also had in house Training on Epipen use. 

 

Staff Training