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Cost: £20

Schemas provide a window into children's learning and this pack includes a wealth of information about these patterns of behaviour. The 12 individual cards look in detail at each schema in turn, exploring:

the schema itself
what you might notice
how to respond to extend children's thinking
resource ideas

They are a must for anyone working with children from babies and beyond and can be used in your early years setting as well as being leant to parents to support their understanding.

NEW FOR 23-24

Cost: £10

Social development in children is a critical aspect of their overall growth and well-being. These 20 attractive cards contain activities and ideas to help practitioners build essential skills in children such as:-

Building Relationships
Communication Skills
Emotional Regulation
Problem Solving
Self-Confidence and resilience
Cultural and Moral Values, a sense of fairness and following rules

This is a suite of training videos to support the knowledge of your early years practitioners and the ongoing professional development of your team. Each one is focused on a specific aspect of practice to support you in ensuring that key messages are understood by new employees or as a refresher for existing ones.

There are two options to purchase:

A set of 12 videos for £50 (see below for details of Sets 1 and 2)
One or more individual videos of your choice (£5 each)

Once you have purchased the videos you can use them in your own setting as many times as you like, your access will be unlimited.

These bite-sized webinars are short (typically 10 to 15 minutes) to enable practitioners to balance training with their everyday work commitments.

Topics available are:

Set 1:

EYFS Walk through
Looking after babies
New to Safeguarding
How to use 'Development Matters' and 'Birth to 5 Matters'
What is a Key Person?
What opportunities does a 0-3 enabling indoor environment need to include?
What opportunities does a 3-5 enabling indoor environment need to include?
What opportunities does an enabling outdoor environment need to include?
Why is it important to form positive attachments?
Characteristics of Effective Teaching and Learning
Supporting Positive Behaviour
Talking to Parents

Set 2:

Supporting sleep and rest times
Supporting Meal and Snack Times
The Amazing Brain
Let's talk about vocabulary
How to tell a story
Key features of Effective Practice 1 - The best for every child; equality/inclusion/deprivation
Key features of Effective Practice 2 - High Quality Care
Key features of Effective Practice 3 - The Curriculum
Key features of Effective Practice 4 - Pedagogy; helping children to learn
Key features of Effective Practice 5 - Assessment; checking what children have learnt
Key features of Effective Practice 6 - Self-regulation and Executive Function
Key features of Effective Practice 7 - Partnership with Parents

Please use the button below to place your order.

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Cost: £5

This booklet is crammed full of more than 150 exciting and practical ideas to really motivate your boys. From cause and effect baskets to interactive story maps there are ideas that will capture their interest and support their engagement and learning.

These ideas are suitable for any early years setting and organised in the seven areas of learning and development for your convenience.

Cost: £10

This is a set of five staff meeting cards to support you in challenging learning and sustaining high expectations for teaching and learning in your setting. You can use these cards as an individual, in small groups or as a whole staff team.

Topics:

exploring dispositions of learning
emotional intelligence
promoting a positive mindset
developing the environment and routines
effective interactions

You can choose to purchase this as digitally or a hard copy so please state which you would like when you submit your order, using the notes section at the end of the booking form.

Cost (full pack - folder, booklet and 10 copies of each form): £35

The childminder documentation pack has everything you need to get started in one place. In the pack you will find:

contracts
existing injuries
accidents
medication records (long and short term)
record of concerns
attendance records
child registration forms
useful contacts
emergency contacts

There will be supporting guidance with each document to ensure you understand what they are for and how to use them. Further copies can be purchased separately. This pack is fantastic for those childminders starting out in their new business venture taking away the hassle of having to create your own.

Further copies of individual sections are also available as follows:

Record of children's attendance x 52 (full year) £10

Contract x 20 £10

All packs for the following individual forms are £5

existing injuries x 10 copies
accident-incident record x 20 copies
administration of medication (short term) x 10
administration of medication (long term) x 10
record of concerns x 20
child registration form x 20
useful and emergency contacts x 10

Contact information not for sale as an individual section

Cost: £5

This delightful and compact desktop flip book has one page per week.

The communication and language development of every child is high on our agenda, as we strive to give each child the best possible start in life. This flip book contains prompts, which can be changed each week, that relate to communication and language. There are tips for:

interaction
developing vocabulary
suggested resources and useful websites
typical development stages
indicators of when to be concerned

The intention is to display the flip book in a prominent place for staff and families to see, use it at staff meetings or as a discussion prompt with parents.

Cost: £10

This booklet considers how to harness the outdoor environment and the natural spaces within your locality to deliver your early years curriculum. It includes inspiration and guidance in each of the seven areas of development. There is practical information from how to make a 'tippy' tap to a month by month guide to developing your growing area,

It also includes:

the benefits of outdoor learning
managing risk
practical consideration – hygiene, weather and food

If you like to learn more about nature based learning and find a range of ideas of how to implement it in practice, then this booklet is for you.

Cost: £10

This book starts with a brief overview of early brain development with a focus on child development and how children learn. This information is then used to show resources and areas of provision that would support children to learn across all areas of learning and development through high quality enabling environments. Exploring the essential role of the adult in each area.

The book includes:

Continuous and enhanced provision for children under two:

physical
exploratory
imaginative
comfortable

Continuous and enhanced provision for children two to six:

book
mark making
construction
small world
domestic role play
sand and water
malleable
workshop
painting

As well as providing lots of photographs to provide ideas, this book also suggests lists of appropriate core resources for each age phase.

Cost: £10

This book provides a wealth of guidance to help you understand and develop your outdoor provision. It starts with a brief outline of the benefits of outdoor learning before taking you through a photographic journey of the main key learning opportunities for the outdoors.

It includes how to provide opportunities and experiences for:

relaxing and quiet play
active and physical play
exploration using the senses
engaging with nature and the living world
imaginative and creative play
experiencing and investigating the elements
using the locality

Use the guidance to audit your current provision, create a long term vision and implement your ideas. All practicalities are considered within this book from flooring surfaces, to planting and fencing ideas.

Cost: £7.50

This thought provoking booklet considers equality in early years settings and reflects on the changes that the Equalities Act 2010 has made to how we treat others and looks at what equality means in, and out, of our settings.

Included is a very useful equality audit tool to help you honestly reflect on where your setting is currently and scenarios to discuss as a team.

Topics explored include:

unconscious bias
protected characteristic
gender stereotypes
challenging conversations
terminology
promoting equality

**Updated Summer 2022**

Cost: £5.00

This tool will help you explore the different grade descriptors for the four Ofsted inspection judgement areas, guiding you through each of them to evaluate and improve your own practice.

Part, one looks at what it takes to achieve ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ and guides you to review and reflect on your current practice. The second part will support you in making plans to further develop your setting in the future.

Using mind maps, action plans, quick fixes, and long and short term plans you will soon be on your way to in-depth evaluation of your practice.

Cost: £7.50

This colourful booklet will provide you with a good understanding of how you can support these areas of learning through your environment. With inspiring images and exciting ideas that you can use and develop in you own setting.

This is a great guide for those who naturally embrace this area and those that find it harder.

Cost: £20 - order includes an electronic copy (when ordering, please include an email address for the electronic copy).

This EYFS principles into practice audit tool has been designed to support you as a senior leader, to gain a shared understanding of what quality looks like in your school's EYFS and to support accurate self-evaluation in line with the Ofsted grade descriptors.

It provides a complete overview based on the four guiding principles that should shape practice in early years settings from the 'Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage'.

By using the 'Reflection and discussion' prompts you will be guided towards a shared vision, values and pedagogy. There is an opportunity to make 'notes and development points' for improvement planning.

Cost: £5

This publication is designed to help you reflect on your childminding practice. This spiral bound flip book contains 12 categories and a few sub-categories, each page is an opportunity for you to think about your practice and be your own critical friend.

There is no prescriptive way of using the flip book, whether you choose to ponder on a quote for the day, doodle your thoughts in a book, or reflect on a single question for a few days – the choice is yours! This flip book will enable you to become a more reflective practitioner in a way that suits you best.

Cost: £7.50

This set of handy A5 size cards include 20 exciting group games for children from 3 to 11 years of age. They have been designed so that you can take them outside or wherever you have space to complete group games.

The games are particularly good in supporting younger children in school readiness but will also help all children in following instructions, listening carefully, making friends and being part of a team.

You will find them very useful in providing a structured adult-led activity and older children will have a bank of games they can play with their friends outside in the school playground.

Cost: £7.50

This is a fun filled booklet packed with practical ideas and resources to support phase one phonics with the three and four year olds in your setting. It includes information and ideas to use for all seven aspects and include:

suggestions for learning
assessment prompts to support progression
activities to encourage listening and attention
activities to encourage sound recognition
resource ideas

Cost: £7.50

This sixty page booklet provides you with a wealth of practical ideas and strategies to create a mathematically rich learning environment, indoors and outdoors, for children from 8 months to 5 years of age.

It will support all practitioners to further develop:

mathematical learning opportunities within both permanent provision
enhanced mathematical opportunities
opportunities through events of the day and regular routines
current resources and loose parts for mathematical thinking

Inspiring photographs illustrate the limitless opportunities available in your setting.

Cost: £20

This is a set of sixteen of laminated cards that will inspire the little scientists in your setting.

Each card covers an experiment that will provide a 'wow' factor and encourage lots of scientific chatter for you to develop and extend children's knowledge and skills in the area of learning 'Understanding the World'.

Experiments include:

magic milk
tornado in a jar
chalk rockets
wormery
dancing raisons

And many more!

Cost: £20

This book has been developed to support and guide you through the process of observing, assessing and planning for the children in your care.

It is a useful resource for practitioners new to the EYFS as well as to those wanting to update and refresh their OAP skills.

It is packed full of ideas for letters, starting points, observations, planning and assessment tools. These are not required to be in paper format but recording some of the information this way may help you retain the knowledge you have of the children observed.

It will also provide you with guidance and examples of communication tools between you, parents and others, including a two year written report.

Cost: £20

This toolkit has been designed to support and enhance your early years childcare provision by helping you and your team organise, evaluate and evidence your good practice and capture plans for further development.

The seven audit booklets cover all areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage and include sign posting to further information to help you.

This toolkit is not prescriptive and can be used flexibly and be personalised to your setting at the moment.

It really is up to you to use it in ways that work for you - as a few suggestions, you could:

use the booklets as dividers within a 'toolkit' file to give you a setting overview or central record
delegate the booklets to specific members of staff to lead on – for example the designated lead practitioner could lead on the child protection audit
use the toolkit as an annual audit for your setting – capturing where you are at a specific moment in time and providing you with your focus for improvement plan over the next 12 months
work through the toolkit over a longer period, choosing a section at a time and really drill down on a specific area, threading from team meetings right through to discussions at individual supervisions

Templates are included to help you capture where you are now and plan for future improvements.

Cost: £10

Use this toolkit every year to support you to meet the needs of every child within your class.

Watch the videos and consider the dandelions and orchids theory alongside the Leuven scales for well being and involvement.

From your knowledge of your children decide on your target group and plan to support this group throughout the year using this toolkit as a scaffold.

Cost: Electronic copy - free, Hard copy: £4 including P&P

This booklet is for you if you are working with children in the Early Years Foundation Stage and have children who are new arrivals to the UK, refugees, economic migrants and asylum-seeking children.

It provides a range of practical ideas to support the development of good practice and successful, happy learners.

Please state on the order form if you would like a paper or electronic copy (or both).

NEW FOR 23-24

Cost: £10

Are you ever stuck for ideas when planning your outdoor experiences?

This pack of 24 beautiful cards has been created to inspire practitioners with their outdoor activities throughout the seasons.

The beauty of them is the activities need very few resources and use mainly natural materials found in the great outdoors.

These will be invaluable for anyone delivering forest schools or nature-based leaning.

Cost: £7.50

This a is a booklet of 10 leaflets that you can share individually when it is relevant to your parents or display them in your parent's area for general information and support.

You will also receive an electronic copy so that you can print as many as needed and personalise and adapt the content, perhaps adding your own logo.

The leaflets cover commonly raised concerns or questions you may hear from your parents including:

toilet training
behaviour management
supporting their child's speech
bedtime routines
healthy snacks

The leaflets are suitable for all settings in the early years.

Cost: £7.50

This booklet is a detailed resource that will help you ensure that your practice is well informed about people, cultures and communities.

It explores how to provide a diverse and inclusive curriculum without being tokenistic and includes information on a range of topics such as:

helping children develop a sense of belonging to their local community
supporting practitioners who work in a mono cultural environment
promoting diversity
audit to review your environment

Cost: £20 for both documents (an electronic copy of the journal is included in the cost)

A copy of this journal can be given to all new practitioners to support them with their induction and to ensure that they have the knowledge and skills to be the very best member of your team.

This journal provides managers with a flexible structure that will suit any setting and supports the practitioners to reflect on their knowledge and practice using prompt questions. This self-reflection then feeds into induction activities including meetings and supervisions.

Sections include:

induction plan
initial and ongoing supervision records
reflection prompts around all four principles of the EYFS
reflection prompts around the characteristics of effective teaching and learning
peer observation records

The manager's guide supports you in using these tools.

This short information video will tell you more about this item:

Cost: £7.50

Children’s personal development is crucial for them to lead healthy and happy lives and is fundamental to their cognitive development.

This packed booklet will help you to support children's PSED from babies to 6 year olds. Topics include:

helping children to develop a strong sense of self
supporting children to develop self-regulation skills
attachment
building resilience and independence
supporting children's health

Cost: £5

Use this small booklet to take yourself on a journey through the Early Years Professional Development Centre at a time when the learning environments were all enhanced to promote PSED with our brilliant boys.

It will help you to consider if you are planning experiences for boys that build on their interests and value their strengths as active learners and problem solvers. Are you utilising boys' fascinations and learning preferences as starting points to your planning? This booklet gives you lots of ideas to take away and use in your own setting.

Cost: £10

This set of six colourful A4 cards support and expand on aspects of physical development for children aged 0 to 2 years and can easily be made into home learning bags with the addition of readily available books and easily sourced resources.

Each card includes a rhyme to encourage action and movement and includes suggested stories, resources and activities linked to each theme as well as links to further information. The item is available digitally and as a hard copy.

The cards are as follows:

I can reach and grasp
I can sit up
I can move myself and objects
I can move independently
I can feed myself and clean my teeth
I can move and balance

Cost: £20

The physical development parents packs consist of 10 beautifully designed laminated leaflets which you can share with parents and could use to make home learning bags with the addition of readily available books and easily sourced resources.

Topics include:

I can use tools
I can crawl
I can draw lines and circles
I can throw and catch

Cost: £100

Purchase this set of 10 pocket sized professional development videos to support the EYFS in your school. These will be useful in ensuring that you have the platform for learning in place in your EYFS through considering:

the Statutory requirements
enabling environments
the role of the key person
child development
routines and organisation
partnership with parents
building a curriculum
the unique child
the role of the adult
transitions

These videos will be especially useful for practitioners who are new to the EYFS in schools and for those experienced EYFS members of the team who would like the opportunity to reflect on their practice.

Cost: £16

Helicopter Stories are tried, tested and proven to have a significant impact on children’s literacy and communication skills, their confidence and social and emotional development.

Based on the work of Vivian Gussin Paley, this book provides a practical, step-by-step guide to using this approach with young children. Covering all aspects of Helicopter Stories, Trisha Lee shows how you can introduce your children to the approach, collect their stories and then bring their ideas to life by acting them out.

The book is full of practical advice and inspiring anecdotes and includes:

clear guidelines for scribing children's stories
acting out stories together
how to involve all children – even those unwilling to speak or act
supporting EAL children

Cost: £7.50

This is the Department for Education's non-statutory guidance for the Early Years Foundation Stage.

If you are looking after children between 2 and 3 years of age, this guidance will inform, support and offer suggestion to help you to:

review a child’s development and progress in the 3 prime areas of learning and development in the EYFS framework
identify any areas of concern or additional development needs
work with parents and other professionals to put in place appropriate support and intervention

Cost: £10

This booklet has a wealth of information relevant to all early years sectors and includes a wellbeing audit for you to use in your setting.

It is full of practical ways that you can audit and develop your environment and practices to really support every child's wellbeing.

It explores how you can:

create a calming environment through colour and plants
assess children's well being
use strategies to support children's wellbeing
build children's resilience

Included in the booklet are a set of mindfulness cards and a set of peer to peer massage cards to copy and use and many other resource references.

Cost: £10

This is an extensive, 92 page document for all early years educators to use. It is arranged into six chapters, each exploring an essential element of children's wellbeing:

mental health
sleep
exercise
healthy relationships
nutrition
wellbeing

You can dip into each chapter when it is relevant to your practice and your cohort of children. The wellbeing audit is included to assess where you are currently and to plan your next steps.

It offers practical ideas, background information to support your professional development, useful websites and much more.

Cost: £5

A communication friendly environment should make communication as easy, effective and enjoyable as possible. It should provide opportunities for everyone to talk, listen, understand and take part.

This booklet will give you further insight into how to resource both your indoor and outdoor environments in order to promote communication, speech and language for all early years children.

There is also useful information on how to make best use of daily routines to promote communication and language.

Updated May 2022

Cost: £10

The importance of physical development in the early years as well as ways in which moving and handling and health and self-care can be supported through the early years environment are explored in this handy booklet.

Cost: £5

You can use this booklet as a resource for staff or room meetings about wellbeing or to support individual staff members with their own well-being.

It focuses on the importance of the wellbeing of your team and is packed full of ideas to promote wellbeing on an individual level and as a team in an early year's environment.

Topics include:

causes, indicators of stress and how to combat it
the five ways to wellbeing
super brain yoga
links to resources to support wellbeing

Cost: £10

These are a set of seven double sided colourful A4 cards (or you can purchase a digital copy)

Each of the cards support you and expand on the reading of a specific book: A Great Big Cuddle; Croc & Bird; Daddy Do My Hair; Open Very Carefully; The Wide Mouthed Frog and Why do we need bees?

The beautiful cards contain supporting information for communication and language, PSED, outdoors etc, including links to further information and resources and activities relating to each topic.

The seventh card is a handy summary of the links for each of the six books for quick reference.

Please state whether you want this item digitally or in hard copy when you submit your order, using the notes section at the end of the booking form.

Cost: £10

This document is an invaluable tool and will support you as a leader and manager to self-evaluate your provision and practice using the good and outstanding grade descriptors from 'The Early Years Inspection Handbook for Ofsted Registered Provision'.

It will help you improve your provision or maintain its high standards and includes the views of others and the progress made by the children to determine what needs to improve. The rating system will help to evaluate your current position and then prioritise and plan next steps for improvement.

Optional summary formats for monitoring and evaluation are also included in the document for different age groups and cohorts of children.

Cost: £20

The aim of this 114 page book is to support leaders and practitioners to be clear about the legal requirements regarding teaching, learning and assessment within the Early Years Foundation Stage. It will help you to refine or create manageable, user friendly and effective systems to support your children's learning.

The book is full of information, ideas and templates to help reduce the workload of practitioners whilst still ensuring all our children progress as learners.

Cost: £10

These EYFS reflective practice cards are designed to support your self-evaluation of the EYFS in your practice and provision.

They can be used by individuals to help you consider how to develop your practice further or they could be used together by whole staff teams.

These could be dipped into over time as you consider how effective you are in meeting the requirements of the EYFS and can then support you in developing an improvement plan to develop and strengthen your practice further.

You might decide to look at a card each week or to look at a whole section at a time. The EYFS reflective practice cards are divided into 11 sections which are colour coded throughout the deck. These unpick each of the educational programmes within the seven areas of learning and development from within the EYFS and each of the grade descriptors within the four judgement areas from the Early Years Inspection Handbook.

Cost: £10 per pack

These cards can be used at staff meetings as a tool for managers to regularly dip into in order to support the embedding of policies and procedures into daily practice. Questions posed could be used to prompt discussion, explore topics further and embed knowledge.

Once you have discussed a topic with your team you will be able to judge whether:

all staff fully understand
particular staff require further support
further input is required for all team members

Depending on the outcome you would consider next steps and add any tasks to your development plan.

**AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS ONLY**

Cost: £5.50 per copy plus £3 postage and packing

Spotlight magazine is produced termly by the Early Years Team and comes packed with with content from settings across Lancashire.

Printed copies are available to members only - please use the order link below to choose which copies and how many you want to order.

Order Spotlight

Cost: £7.50

This booklet is intended to be used as a resource for managers to support the development and improved effectiveness of their leadership skills. It can also be used to inform individual reflection and used to inform your leadership of supervision processes for your setting.

Topics include:

requirements around supervision
coaching, mentoring and listening skills
understanding how teams work

Templates for:

pre-supervision questionnaire
supervision record
management style questionnaire

Cost: £7.50

This large booklet will support you with your 'English as an additional language learners' and is relevant for all early years sectors. It includes an abundance of effective practice ideas and resources as well as exploring:

stages of language development
strategies to develop communication in English
resources and activities
parental involvement ideas
assessment systems for EAL children
intervention strategies

Cost: £10

This book features stories written and illustrated by 3 to 7 year olds during helicopter stories sessions in schools across London.

The illustrations were selected from over 1000 competition entries and the book was produced to accompany the 'Woman Who Cooked Everything tour in 2008.

It is a great accompaniment to 'Princesses, dragons and helicopter stories' or can be used as a stand alone resource.

Cost: £7.50

This booklet recognises that talk is at the heart of mathematical learning and will support you to prioritise time to talk mathematically and to reflect upon the consistency of language used across the team.

It is full of prompts to support the development of a mathematically rich learning environment and to reflect upon the role of the adult through quality interactions.

It includes recommended vocabulary for each mathematical concept, alongside practical ideas to introduce language in a purposeful and meaningful way.

Topics include

promoting different types of mathematical vocabulary
extending thinking with mathematical conversations
mathematical routines
promoting mathematical mark making

Cost:

full set of all six languages plus a set of bingo cards: £28
any individual language packs: £4 each
set of bingo cards: £4

The Walk and Talk cards pack consists of fourteen colourful A5 cards. They are prompts to give out or use with parents or staff when out on a walk. They will enable less confident staff and parents to use these to find key areas or items on their walk and talk about with their children.

The cards are designed to support discussion and help you to initiate and build conversation with young children. They can also be used on parents' boards and your display boards. You can also purchase a set of 14 bingo cards which are a pictorial version of the prompt cards.

The cards cover prompts for:

At the bus stop
At the castle
At the library
At the park
At the shops
At the train station
By the canal
By the river
In the garden or backyard
In the woods
On the beach
On the street
Outside my house
On the way to...

We recommend laminating them if you are sending them as part of a pack that parents can borrow.

The cards are available to purchase in English, Gujarati, Urdu, Ukrainian, Polish, Bengali and Punjabi. You can also purchase a set of 14 bingo cards which are a pictorial version of the prompt cards.

Cost: £5.50 or free to download from the Children's Safeguarding Assurance Partnership (CSAP) Procedures Manual

This booklet was developed by Children's Safeguarding and Assurance Partnership (CSAP) in Lancashire, Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen.

It is and essential document for all designated lead practitioners and has all you need to stay up to date with the principles of early help.

It also includes a useful guide to support practitioners in identifying indicators of possible need with examples of what to look out for at each level on the levels of need.

Cost: £5

This leaflet has been designed for you to use with your parents to share information about the outdoors and explain the benefits to their child.

Topics included:

why play out?
what will your child enjoy?
how to support your child's outdoor play
outdoor play at home

It can be adapted according to the needs of your setting and additional photos can be added to personalise it.