Ensuring an Ambitious Curriculum for Early Years Pupils

With the focus on EYFS in school inspection, it is important that EYFS teachers have a ‘top level view’ of their curriculum, which can be confidently shared with others, including subject leaders.

This half day session will support you to consider how areas of learning fit into whole school curriculum planning, ensuring progression from early years into Key stage one.

The session will particularly consider how ‘Understanding the World’ feeds into Humanities.

Early Years Teachers and ECTs

By the end of the session, you will be able to:

● Talk to subject leaders about the EYFS curriculum

● Understand how learning in the EYFS can be built upon in later key stages

● Consider the place of EYFS learning and development, within the context of whole school curriculum planning

Sheena has worked in education for over 40 years, undertaking a variety of roles in that time. Her early teaching career began as a nursery teacher in two London boroughs, before moving to the Southwest and teaching across the whole primary age range. Her interest in early years led her to teach Early Childhood studies at FE colleges and for ITT programmes.

Devon LA approached Sheena to help set up a team of Early Years Advisors, which she went on to manage and lead. In this role Sheena earned a reputation for her knowledge of high-quality curriculum and working successfully with schools in challenging circumstances following inspection.

She left this role as Lead Advisor to work independently and enable more time to be spent in school. During this period of working independently, Sheena was engaged by many strategic partners including the LGA, CAPH, Somerset LA and an 18-month period as consultant Head of Primary, opening a new 0-16 school. In order to maintain a broad overview of early year’s education, Sheena has spent the last 6 years combining part time LA work in Torbay, with an EYFS school improvement role in Devon, Dorset and Cornwall, working across a number of MAT’s. This flexibility allowed her to combine her love of being with children in the classroom, with the strategic oversight of a Head of EY Service. Sheena has recently finished her LA career and now focuses upon her school improvement work and delivering CPD for EYFS Leads, Head teachers and subject leaders. Her ambition for wanting children to have the best start to their education journey, has been the momentum for remaining in the EY sector.

SWIFT Members: £55

Other colleagues: £85

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Please note: Payment is by INVOICE ONLY. Please select invoice as the payment method at check out.

SWIFT Partner providing course (including invoicing) is Riviera Training School Alliance (Riviera Education Trust).

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If you are unable to attend on the day, or are sending someone else in your place, please let us know. Please be aware that failure to cancel your space can incur your school a cost.

• More than 21 days to date of event: Full refund available (minus £25 admin fee)
• Between 20-7 days to date of event: 50% refund available (minus £25 admin fee)
• 6 days or less to date of event: No refund available (plus £25 admin fee)

Should a training course recruit insufficient numbers to make it viable, we reserve the right to cancel the course, without penalty, giving minimum notice of 24 hours.

Full Terms and Conditions are available HERE.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Oldway Primary School, Higher Polsham Road, Paignton, United Kingdom