EYFS Training

All sessions are for one hour unless stated or requested to be longer. These can be delivered during a staff meeting or as part of a training day and can be 1-2 hours or half a day.

How Attachment Impacts on Behaviour and Relationships in EYFS

This course enables EYFS staff to:

  •  Identify children’s different attachment styles
  •  Understand how these can impact on behaviour and relationships in a positive or negative way
  •  Develop strategies to implement to promote positive experiences

Using Reflective Language in the EYFS setting (part 1)

This course enables EYFS staff to:

  •  Understand the concept of reflective language and explore the benefits of using it as a behaviour management technique
  •  Recognise the importance of EYFS staff developing awareness of and acknowledging their own feelings
  •  Identify how to implement it during the day

Using Reflective Language to Strengthen Attachment Relationships (part 2)

This course enables EYFS staff to:

  •  Identify children’s different attachment styles
  •  Understand how these impact on relationships
  •  Practice using appropriate reflective responses for children’s different attachment styles

How External Circumstances Impact on Children’s Behaviour and Relationships

This course enables EYFS staff to:

  •  Explore the impact of home and parenting on children’s behaviour
  •  Understand how these impact on children’s ability to develop healthy relationships in the EYFS setting
  •  Develop strategies to promote more positive relational experiences

Understanding Feelings and Frustrations in the Foundation Stage

This course will enable EYFS staff to:

  •  Identify the potential barriers to children settling in nursery
  •  Understand the impact of external circumstances and trauma
  •  Learn strategies to implement to manage behaviour, especially tantrums

Positive Approaches and Strategies to Managing Children’s Behaviour

This course will enable EYFS staff to:

  •  Understand the links between brain development and behaviour in young children
  •  Identify circumstances that activate rage in young children
  •  Understand the impact of external circumstances and trauma
  •  Learn strategies to implement to manage behaviour, especially tantrums

The Practice of Therapeutic Play

This course enables EYFS staff to:

  •  Identify and use therapeutic ways of working with children
  •  Understand how to use reflective language
  •  Practice using therapeutic play skills
  •  Identify safe and unsafe practices in working with children

Understanding how trauma impacts on children’s relationships and behaviour

This course enables EYFS staff to:

  •  Identify experiences that may cause trauma in children
  •  Explore how children may express trauma by their behaviour
  •  Develop strategies to implement to promote positive experiences and improved behaviour