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
Live Webinar Package - £145 per person excl. VAT
Recording - £145 per person excl. VAT
Dates and Times
Autumn 2025
Face to Face Courses
Cumbria - Hawkshead Esthwaite Primary School, LA22 0NT
Thursday 9th October
9:30am - 3:30pm
Derby - Harrington Nursery School, DE23 8PE
Thursday 16th October
9:30am - 3:30pm
South Yorkshire, Rotherham - Rawmarsh Nursery School and Children's Centre, S62 6AD
Friday 14th November
9:30am - 3:30pm
Leicestershire - John Wycliffe Primary School, LE17 4QJ
Thursday 27th November
9:30am - 3:30pm
*Please Note - Lunch will not be provided when attending Face to Face Courses, please ensure you bring a packed lunch to the course.
Spring 2026
Face to Face Courses
Warrington - Penketh South Community Primary School, WA5 2PN
Monday 2nd February
9:30am - 3:30pm
York - Park Grove Primary Academy, YO31 8LG
Friday 27th March
9:30am - 3:30pm
*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
Part 1: Monday 2nd March
Part 2: Monday 9th March
Part 3: Monday 16th March
9:30am - 11:00am
Summer 2026
Face to Face Course
Coventry - Alderman's Green Primary School, CV2 1PP
Thursday 21st May
9:30am - 3:30pm
*Please Note - Lunch will not be provided when attending Face to Face Courses, please ensure you bring a packed lunch to the course.