nursery staff

Helicopter Stories is a powerful, evidence-based technique for developing children’s confidence, curiosity, creativity, and communication skills.
This workshop will introduce this technique in which children dictate their stories to an adult and later the same session or day the children act out their stories from their place round the circle, with no props. In the session you will learn how to run effective Helicopter Stories sessions which have been proven by the Open University to develop confidence and communication skills in children aged 2-5. ?

This workshop will introduce a technique for following a child’s lead within a small group structure and for developing practitioners’ skills in talking with children. The approach allows practitioners to interact in a playful way using a variety of media (actions, objects, pens, and paper) which can develop a range of communication and PSE skills.

n this workshop you will learn how to recognise features of Selective Mutism,  risk factors, triggers and maintaining factors,   and how to support students within the classroom.

This training provides guidance for practitioners around developing an enabling learning environment for all learners.

Parents and caregivers play a crucial role in supporting children’s speech, language and communication development. This workshop will provide advice around working with parents to support children to make progress.

In this workshop you will learn about the importance of vocabulary development, how children learn words , and learn about a structured whole – group approach to teaching vocabulary. Following this online?workshop you will?have the tools to?promote?different kinds of words and?know how to help children remember and learn them. You will learn how to apply this knowledge in play times and everyday routines.

Learn play based, person centred strategies to help people with severe learning difficulties or ASD to build the fundamental communication and social skills by mirroring and responding to their unique communication behaviours.

Support the development of joint attention skills in young autistic children within a small group. 

Learn about typical speech development, the features of speech sound disorders and strategies to support students.   

Makaton Signing is keyword signing to support children's understanding and their ability to communicate.  Learn approximately 40 signs to use in the classroom.     

Join this workshop to learn more about delivering a ‘Playing with Words’ group to support children to learn and use everyday vocabulary.

This training supports practitioners to recognise the different ways we can communicate and provides strategies to enable communication in all of its forms within our settings.