Trainers

Reflecting on leadership development in the context of workforce crisis

by Kayla Halls, Early Years Research Fellow at Middlesex University & Mona Sakr, Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood at Middlesex University’ Leaders in the early years (EY) set the tone for the way settings run. Whether it’s nursery managers, pedagogical leaders or room leaders, leadership development is essential for improving how EY organisations work and […]

Anni McTavish

Anni is an experienced workshop leader, trainer, and presenter, with over thirty years in the field of early education. She has been both a practitioner, deputy, and Headteacher, and has worked across the UK, Europe, and Internationally.​

Anne O’Connor

Anne has more than twenty years’ experience and leadership in nursery, infant and primary schools in inner London. She developed and coordinated one of the first Early Years Units in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in which nursery and reception age children were fully integrated.​

Anne Harding

Anne has been an independent trainer for twenty years. She supplies courses and in-service training for national and regional bodies, local authorities, pre-schools, schools, museums and other organisations throughout Britain and internationally. She frequently speaks at conferences.​

Amanda King

Amanda’s career in early years education has been built over the last 20 years, teaching KS1, reception and nursery, including a role as Foundation Stage coordinator in a large primary school.​