As a senior leader in Early Years for over 25 years, Paula has managed settings to Outstanding, coached and advised leaders on quality improvement in the Hampshire Advisory Team, led high quality provision as group manager of 12 nurseries, and been director of quality for 32 nurseries. Paula supports leaders, managers, and practitioners to raise the quality of Early Years practice, and has spoken at national conferences. Paula is an experienced Froebelian Travelling Tutor delivering Froebel Trust Endorsed courses in England, Scotland, and Wales. As a Level 7 Executive Coach, Paula supports leaders and managers to understand their own people management style and bring out the best in those they lead. In her role as a quality consultant, Paula has supported settings with all areas of the learning environment and successfully led many settings through their Ofsted inspections supporting them to enjoy the experience and be proud!
This course will enable you to lead and support your teams more effectively. By understanding coaching and mentoring strategies, you will become more self-reflective on your own supporting style. You will learn how to bring out the best in the individuals you manage having an impact on professional and personal lives. Empowering your staff to be the best they can be and feel positive about their role will impact the quality of your provision and therefore improve outcomes for children.
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Everyone has heard of the benefits of being outside but do we really know what this means and why? This course will develop your knowledge of the outdoor world and the unlimited ways it can benefit adults and children in Early Years. We will tackle the challenges which sometimes stop us from being outdoors as much as we would like to be. You’ll struggle to be back indoors afterwards!
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Are you always thinking about that imminent Ofsted visit and how to ensure you and your staff are ready to proudly show what you do every day? Are you striving for high quality practice, wanting the children in your setting to experience this every day, not just for Ofsted, but not quite knowing how? Are there areas you feel you could do better in but not sure what needs to change? This course will not only support you to self-reflect and think critically about high quality practice for children and families, but also help you and your staff team prepare to be proud and confident in articulating your practice and showing Ofsted your best in an inspection.
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‘Change is difficult, even good change.’ Managing change is different for everyone regardless of their age. During the Early Years Foundation Stage there are unavoidable transitions such as when a child starts school. This course will look at how we can help prepare children and their families for this big transition in their lives. We will also reflect on many transitions children may be exposed to in your setting that may be avoidable and, if children can be supported by any tweaks to your environment and/or structure of the day.
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