Creating the Foundations in the Early Years 2025

Aims

Session one- Enabling Environments, will cover what makes a learning environment ‘enabling’ and what this means in practise. We will look at how different periods of time in the year will require different approaches and ways to support children who may be struggling to settle and/or have English as an additional language.  You will have an opportunity to talk about your own learning environments and ask questions to further develop your practise.  

Session two- Adult-Child Interactions, will cover the adults’ role in facilitating children’s learning and how to create a language supporting classroom. This will include planning for language in meaningful contexts, exploring what type of questions will help facilitate children’s learning and the audit tools that are available to evaluate and assess your environment for its impact and effectiveness. We are also very fortunate to have the EYL from Southwark Park join us to talk about their action research project on adult-child interactions and the impact this has had on children’s learning and language development.