Developing High Quality SEND Practice in the Early Years

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:

• Gain a deeper understanding of SEND in the Early Years

• Explore ways to develop an accessible and inclusive learning environment

• Consider what Adaptive and Responsive Teaching strategies could be used to support different areas of need in the Early Years

SENCOs, Early Years Leaders and Teachers

Face to Face Course - £145 per person excl. VAT

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 Course

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.