Environment Workshop: The Immersive Enabling Environment Journey
This workshop will take practitioners on a journey through the newly designed and redeveloped spaces at the Early Years Professional Development Centre.
Who is this course for?
- All practitioners working with children from 0-5 years of age.
- This session will particularly be helpful for room leaders and managers in supporting you to lead the session for your teams back in your setting.
Course content
This workshop will support practitioners to think about:
- why we need spaces and places within our settings that enable children to learn
- why layout of rooms and outdoor spaces matter
- why use of colour, open ended resources and multi-sensory resources can significantly support learning and development
- how to layout your own room and outdoor areas
- how to set up an area of provision and having a go
- how to ensure that you are providing an emotionally secure environment supporting children to manage their feelings and behaviour, make friends and foster a genuine sense of belonging
- how to meet the needs of typical groups within your setting through your spaces and places
- how to really tune into unique children through your use of resources to support your role as an effective adult
- how to ensure that your resourcing supports your curriculum, helping children to make progress sequentially, building on what they already know and can do
Please note: The centre is no longer set up as an example of how you might set up your own spaces. It is now set up as a workshop journey for practitioners to follow to ensure that their own spaces are as an enabling as they possibly can be.
Session dates and times
Date: 5th February 2026
Time: 9.30am - 12.00pm
Venue: Early Years Professional Development Centre, Fairfield Nursery School, Fairfield Street, Accrington, BB5 0LD
Delivery: Face to face only
Date: 12th March 2026
Time: 1pm - 3.30pm
Venue: Early Years Professional Development Centre, Fairfield Nursery School, Fairfield Street, Accrington, BB5 0LD
Delivery: Face to face only
Date: 11th May 2026
Time: 1.00pm – 3.30pm
Venue: Early Years Professional Development Centre, Fairfield Nursery School, Fairfield Street, Accrington, BB5 0LD
Delivery: Face to face only
Date: 15th June 2026
Time: 1.00pm – 3.30pm
Venue: Early Years Professional Development Centre, Fairfield Nursery School, Fairfield Street, Accrington, BB5 0LD
Delivery: Face to face only
Cost: £40 per place - please note the 2 for 1 offer for PVI SSG members does not apply to these workshops
Delivered by:
Annette Shepherd and Julie Ebden, Early Years Team Leader and Senior Early Years Foundation Stage Consultant
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Please note we do not accept bookings by email or phone.
If you book a place and fail to attend, the full charge will apply - see our Terms and Conditions for exclusions.