Creating Effective Environments and Planning for Engaging Experiences (2 parts)

Creating Effective Environments

This course explores how to design and maintain an environment that is central to children’s authentic experiences and sense of belonging. You’ll gain insight into how adaptive and immersive spaces can support exploration, independence, and emotional security. Through practical examples and reflective activities, you’ll learn how to set up and enhance your provision to meet the diverse needs of all children, ensuring your environment becomes a powerful tool for learning and development.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the characteristics of an effective early years environment and its impact on children’s development.
• Identify and discuss the three environments and their roles in supporting learning
• Recognise key areas within continuous provision and understand their purpose in promoting exploration and engagement.
• To enhance areas of provision to better support children’s interests and developmental needs.
• Reflect on and evaluate your environment to ensure it remains responsive, inclusive, and enriching for all children.

Planning for Engaging Experiences

This course will equip you with the knowledge and understanding to plan engaging, hands-on experiences that are meaningful to each child’s learning journey. You’ll explore the value of risk, challenge, and success in early years play, and the importance of allowing children time for deep, uninterrupted exploration. The course also highlights the power of revisiting experiences to consolidate learning, with a focus on the child’s process rather than just the outcome. The course will explore the importance of play, relationships, and the role of the adult in scaffolding learning through meaningful interactions and provocations.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Recognise the features of an engaging experience that supports spontaneous and planned Teachable Moments.
• Understand the importance of uninterrupted play in fostering deep-level learning
• Plan for appropriate risk and challenge to support resilience, confidence, and problem-solving.
• Reflect on the value of revisiting experiences to strengthen and extend children’s learning.
• Focus on the child’s learning journey, using observations to inform meaningful and responsive planning.

Costs

FREE

Sessions

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Request a place

To request a place, please complete our training request form.

If the place is available, it will be recorded on Dewis and you will be notified by email.

Enquiries

Call the Early Years Hub on 01443 863232.