- Implementing the revised EYFS and developing practice
- Characteristics of effective learning and the role of practitioners and parents
- Tuning in to twos: developing your provision for two year olds
- Observation and assessment across the full EYFS, with a focus on Two Year Olds, 3 and 4 year olds or the reception year and the revised EYFS Profile
- Involving parents and children in the assessment process
- Supporting Communication and Language development in the EYFS
- Supporting children learning English as an Additional Language
- Reviewing and evaluating your setting’s practice
- Developing an enquiry-based project in your setting/school
“Vicky’s course was so informative with such a wide knowledge of early years”
“Lots of really practical ideas. Thank you!”
“Vicky’s course was passionately led. Wonderful to have a course leader with such experience”
Please contact me directly if you are interested in any of these or a related topic. They can be run as a conference presentation, a one day course, two half days or a series of twilights, or a combination of these to create deeper learning and development in the form of a developmental project. Much of my training and conference speaking is commissioned through Early Education – where I am one of their Founding Associates and Osiris Educational
Conferences 2013:
- Keynote presentation to Nursery World Conference ‘Two Year Olds: Policy and Practice’, April 2013
- Dorking Nursery School, Surrey ‘Assessing how and what children learn: effective support for every child’, June 2013,
- Sefton Early Years Conference on Two Year Olds: workshop ‘Tuning in to Twos’, October 2013
- Keynote to Somerset Early Years Conference: ‘Getting it Right for the Children: using the Characteristics of Effective Learning’, October 2013
- Derby NEEDU at the Hub, half day conference:’ Observing and Assessing to Support Children’s Learning’ October 2013
Training and support:
- Ongoing support to individual nursery schools, children’s centres and other settings in the London area
- Assessment in the revised EYFS: courses for Osiris Educational and Early Education
- Supporting children learning English as an Additional Language: courses for Osiris Educational
- Developing the quality of interaction: courses for Early Education
- Outdoor Learning
Upcoming conferences,training and support 2014:
- Courses booked directly with me by a variety of institutions and organizations
- Assessment in the revised EYFS, for Osiris Educational
- Courses for Early Education
- Optimus Education: Effective Assessment to Support Progress in Reception, March 24th 2014, keynote and workshop
- Bluecoat School, Devon: key note and workshop on aspects of assessment in the revised EYFS