Developing High Quality SEND Practice in the Early Years
Supporting & upskilling practitioners to deliver excellent practice and provision to meet the needs of children with SEND in the EYFS
Description
Delivered through a lens of neurodiversity-affirming practice in the Early Years, this course offers support, practical advice, and inspirational ideas of how to develop and improve your SEND practice and provision. Adaptive and Responsive Teaching strategies in the EYFS will be explored across the four overarching EYFS principles, to ensure that every practitioner in your school or setting is a practitioner of SEND.
Delivered as either a full day face-to-face event, or as three webinars, the course covers:
Supporting the unique child and developing positive relationships:
Consider ways to support learning differences and how these can be met through high quality teaching and supportive play. Explore ways to support the unique child through observation, assessment, and strong transitions.
Reflect on how to develop positive relationships with all children, to ensure that you can meet their individual needs within your setting. Explore how to successfully develop positive relationships with parents and work with them to understand their child’s learning differences.
Creating an Enabling Environment:
Explore how to ensure that your environment meets the needs of all children; how to support all children to access resources independently and consider adaptations that can be made to meet the needs of children’s learning differences. Consider practical examples of ways to offer different elements of continuous provision, to meet the needs of the children in your setting.
Using a strengths-based approach to explore ways to support learning and development:
Consider adaptive and responsive teaching strategies to support learning differences across the four broad areas of need from the SEND Code of Practice (2014): Communication and Interaction; Cognition and Learning; Social, Emotional and Mental Health and Sensory and or / Physical. Ensure that your curriculum meets the needs of all children.
Benefits:
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Gain a deeper understanding of SEND in the Early Years
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Explore ways to develop an accessible and inclusive learning environment
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Consider what Adaptive and Responsive Teaching strategies could be used to support different areas of need in the Early Years
Audience
SENCOs, Early Years Leaders and Teachers
Prices
Face to Face Course - £145 per person excl. VAT
*Please Note - Lunch will not be provided when attending Face to Face Courses, please ensure you bring a packed lunch to the course.
Live Webinar Package - £145 per person excl. VAT
Recording - £145 per person excl. VAT
On Demand Webinar
Choose to purchase a recorded version to extend your understanding. Please note access to the recording will be available from the day of purchase and can be accessed for 14 days.
Dates and Times
Spring 2026
Live Webinar Package
Part 1: Monday 2nd March
Part 2: Monday 9th March
Part 3: Monday 16th March
9:30am - 11:00am