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Early Education North, East and West Yorkshire branch Summer and Autumn Programme 2020The new branch is taking training online. This means we can continue professional learning opportunities that you can access as Zoom meetings during the current social distancing regulations.? We've focused the launch programme to address the topics we believe are most pressing at present:supporting children's and their family’s wellbeing during their transition as they return to settings guidance suggests that outdoor learning will be one way to reduce Covid 19 transmission, providing the opportunity to deepen our understanding of children’s response to the outdoor environment and review our role in their learningPricingTo launch the programme, the training by Tamsin Grimmer will be offered for FREE to everyone. The two other training events will be offered at ?5 for EE members and ?10 for non EE members. (Not a member? Why not become a member with our Taster Membership from ?10. See membership options for details about all membership options). If you buy two or more places for the same event, there will be a 10% discount.Tamsin Grimmer Tuesday 28 July 7.30 - 9.00pm (Zoom opens at 7.00pm)Supporting families in uncertain times - planning and preparing for transitionsTamsin will share her suggestions for ideas about ways to support children and their families as settings and schools return to full occupancy. She will consider how practitioners can work with each family in a respectful?and supportive way, demonstrating care and understanding.?Tamsin will consider ways in which?practitioners can make the transitions experiences?for children as good as they can be both now and as we plan for the future.? There will be opportunities for delegates to reflect on communication styles and methods.?Tamsin Grimmer is an experienced early years consultant and trainer who is passionate about young children’s learning and development. Tamsin works part time as a lecturer at Bath Spa University on the Primary and Early Years PGCE courses. She believes that all children deserve practitioners who are inspiring, dynamic, reflective and committed to improving on their current best. Tamsin particularly enjoys planning and delivering training and supporting early years practitioners and teachers to improve outcomes for young children.Tamsin has been an early years consultant for two local authorities and has worked as a teacher and early years professional. More recently she has put theory into practice with her own children, and has demonstrated that she was an Outstanding practitioner while childminding. She is keen to support childminders and home-based carers in their difficult task to support children’s learning and development and has written several courses specifically aimed at childminders and childminding assistants.Kathryn Solly Saturday 10 October 10.00 - 11.30 am - (Zoom opens at 9.30am)Being Bolder and Braver OutdoorsBeing Bolder and Braver Outdoors. Kathryn Solly will assist you in understanding the importance of young children being outdoors in nature. She will help you understand your role in supporting children to be confident learners across the EYFS outdoors. She will dispel a few myths about risk, challenge an adventure. This one hour presentation will also help you to reflect on what needs to be in place outdoors to rebuild everyone’s confidence in the importance of playing and learning outdoors.Kathryn is a specialist Early Years trainer and consultant working around Britain and internationally. Previously she was the Headteacher of the historic and diverse Chelsea Open Air Nursery School and Children’s Centre for nearly 17 years. However, Kathryn started her pedagogic life as a secondary school teacher on Voluntary Service Overseas in Papua New Guinea for two years. Since then she has taught across all the phases of education in a variety of places including a short time in an Albanian kindergarten. She retrained to teach in the early years and has since achieved a special needs qualification and an M.A. in Early Education and Care.She has travelled widely and studied education and care in Italy, Germany, Iceland, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Australia.She is an experienced and passionate public speaker, trainer and consultant at home and abroad.?She is a Froebel Travelling Tutor, and is Vice Chair of the Early Childhood Forum.Debi Keyte-HartlandSaturday 14 November 10.00 - 11.30am - (Zoom opens at 9.30am)Children’s Outdoor Enquiry - Listening and Acting Upon Children’s Ecological Ideas and EnquiresListening and Acting upon Children’s Ecological Ideas and EnquiriesWhen children encounter the world around them, with its materials and transforming state of being and becoming, they have many ideas, stories, and ideas of how things happen. We can tap into this internalised world of enquiry by listening and joining in with their thinking. When we listen and act upon their thoughts about the world, it opens up children to developing an ecological identity that involves richer relationships and understanding about the worlds of insects, plants and changes apparent in the world such as seasonal change, the interdependency of living things, and climate change.This one-hour presentation includes case studies of children’s experiences of theorising about the world, it unpicks elements of what generates and contributes to an ecological identity, and invites us to consider our values about childhood, learning, knowledge and enquiry applicable to learning both outdoors and inside that is rich in learner agency, engagement, imagination and creativity.5860692705084218440-57149Debi Keyte-Hartland is an International Consultant and Artist Educator.? She holds a MA in Education and has worked directly with teachers and leadership teams in the UK and internationally in developing creative and reflective approaches to learning and teaching that involves systemic change and school/settings improvement. ?Debi is an associate lecturer with Birmingham City University. She is also a Co-Director of Sightlines Initiative, the UK reference point for Reggio Children.Debi’s long established UK and International experience can be used within settings to develop pedagogies of active observation, listening and reflection that give value to the learning processes of young children and enable educators to plan and sustain the complex interests of children.?Debi believes that all children are born creative and able to express themselves in many modalities and languages of expression.? However, they must receive and be within environments that support and enable these strengths and competencies to grow and evolve.?Sat 14 November NEWY Branch AGM 11.30am - 12.00Details to follow ................
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