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April 2024


School Readiness Event - CHANGE OF VENUE

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The venue for the Let's Get Ready for School event has had to change to Scunthorpe Central Library. This is due to building work at 20:21.The date and time remain the same - Saturday 11th May 2024, 10am-3pm.

You will shortly receive postcards to distribute to the parents of the children going to reception. Unfortunately, these do have the wrong venue on them. Please can you share them with parents and make them aware of the change of venue. The digital information is in the process of being edited and will highlight that there is a new venue. We will share this with you so you can share via your communication methods with parents.

The library is just a short walk across the square so families who still arrive at 20-21 can easily be directed over to the library.


Upcoming CPD opportunities


Early Years Feeding and Relationship Building - 6.30pm - 8.30pm - Online 

SENDCO Termly Update - Thursday 25th April 2024 - 4.15 - 6.15pm - Ashby Community Hub or Monday 13th May 2024 - 6.30pm - 8.30 pm - TBC

Communication Counts bolt on training - Thursday 2nd May 2024 - 6.15 - 7pm - Online

PVI Managers Forum - Tuesday 7th May 2024 - 6.30 - 8.30pm - Ashby Community Hub

Toilet Training Support in the Early Years - 8.15 - 9.30am - Online

To book a place on any of these courses please complete this form.


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Introduction to Working Within the EYFS (IWWEYFS) training 

Do you have new staff at your early years setting? Or perhaps you have teachers or teaching assistants who are new to EYFS within your school?​

The ‘Introduction to Working Within the EYFS’ training is ideal for practitioners who are new or returning to working within an early years provision such as a day nursery, pre-school or within a school nursery or reception class who either do not have formal early years training or would like a refresher of the current EYFS requirements. More information can be found on page 35 of the Directory.

​All courses are online via Microsoft Teams, 6.30pm-8.30pm and cost £21.65 unless otherwise stated:

Introduction to the Early Years Foundation Stage - Tuesday 30th April 2024

Safeguarding Awareness - Wednesday 1st May 2024, FREE, 6pm - 9pm

Introduction to Emotional Development, Communication and Language and Children's Behaviour in the Early Years​ - Part 1 Tuesday 7th May 2024, Part 2 Wednesday 22nd May 2024​

EYFS Documentation - Wednesday 8th May 2024

Overview of the Learning, Development and Assessment Requirements of the EYFS - 

Tuesday 14th May 2024 - 6pm-9pm

Supporting the Childminding Business and HMRC Requirements - Wednesday 15th May 2024 

Introduction to Equality, Inclusion and SEND - Tuesday 21st May 2024

To request a place, please use this link and complete the link:  IWW Booking Form. Closing date for bookings is one week prior to the course date.​


Tiny Happy People Newsletter

Read on to see what Tiny Happy People have been working on over the last month, including all-new activity videos and an easy to understand breakdown of one of the biggest parent talking points right now, ultra-processed food.


Online survey for early years practitioners

The Early Years Library is a free online resource for early years practitioners. The University of Cambridge’ s PEDAL Centre and the Centre for Evidence and Implementation aim to create resources to make it easy to use the Early Years Library. They are seeking views to help build these resources. 

Who?        Early years practitioners (all levels) currently working in early years settings in England

What?      A 15-minute survey on what works for building skills in early years teams to help shape how we design these resources

At the end, enter a prize draw to win one of five £50 Amazon vouchers!

Go to the survey here: Online Survey


Webinar recording on measles

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On Monday 4 March, DfE hosted a webinar on measles, the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccination and managing outbreaks, with speakers from the UK Health Security Agency, the NHS and Inspire Education Trust. 

Watch a recording of the webinar here.

We encourage you to view and share the recording which includes the expert commentary accompanying the slides.

You can also see the updated the section of the DfE measles blog for schools, nurseries and other education settings to answer some of the questions raised in the webinar.