Doncaster Early Years Inclusion Team

Good afternoon all, due to circumstances beyond our control our emails and Internet systems are currently not fully accessible which may result in some delays in responses. Thank you for your patience with this matter.

At the 'Getting to good' mini conference- feeling very inspired! Thank you Pennie Akehurst and Area Sendco Sarah Thurston.

*Change of date* Please read below:

Are you interested in learning more about the Early Years Curriculum and why it's so important to build your own? Mark your calendars for a free Famly Session with Sue Allingham on Monday the 26th of September at 7pm (UK time)! Sign up anyway if you can't attend live, and we'll send you the recording.
💌You can sign up via the link in the comments!

Hi everyone,
Should you need any urgent COVID-19 advice or support this weekend about recent POSITIVE cases, then please contact me on [email protected] or 07971303999. Signal is poor in my area so if you are struggling to get through send me a text and I will call you back. Please don't leave messages on Facebook as we cant promise that this will be monitored.
Any new reports of self-isolating or symptomatic individuals should be sent via email to both [email protected] and [email protected]
Alison will be available between 1pm-5pm for urgent COVID-19 support. Alison will respond on the same day but this may not be immediately.
Evening calls will be answered the following day.
Any non-urgent queries can still be added to Facebook but may not be answered until Monday.
Stay safe everyone.
Alison 🥰🌈😀

We love sharing information that generates those lightbulb moments. This is really worth knowing. Same goes for adults too 💡

Some really useful tips to share with parents... I'm sure many of you could also use these in your settings 🙂

Comment below with any other good examples you have!
Doncaster Early Years Inclusion Team

Following on from the research findings below, the Anna Freud Centre is holding a series of FREE webinars aimed at childcare practitioners.
The first webinar on 24 February is ‘Managing challenging behaviour in early years settings’ including how to understand and manage emotions such as anger, aggression and frustration in young children.

Other webinars in the series will include:
-Supporting bereaved children in early years settings

- Caring for children in early years settings who have experienced trauma.

📲Make sure you book onto the session here: https://www.annafreud.org/.../early-years-webinar.../ and keep a look out for the other sessions!👀

Like and follow our other page Trauma Informed Early Years - Doncaster where you will find further resources and posts around this topic!

Free research webinar with Dr Helen Williams today, 4-5pm, on spatial reasoning in maths which is useful preparation for the new EYFS coming in September 2021.

More than just numbers: the importance of spatial reasoning in Early Years mathematics Event starts: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 04:00 PM Europe/London

Have you watched Working with Infant Trauma webinar 1: traumas of omission?

We would love to know what you discovered, what you learnt, and what you think. Please share your views to help build a supportive community of practice towards being trauma informed by clicking the link below.

Working with Infant Trauma Webinar 1: Traumas of Omission These webinars are our first step to becoming a trauma informed workforce. You have access to these webinars as you are a professional working with children aged 0-5 years. We would like to gather your views on webinar 1: what you discovered, what you learnt, what you think. This information is inva...

Microsoft Forms

Launched today is the first of two consultations on the non-statutory guidance ‘birth to five matters’. You have until 11th January to submit your review. Downloadable draft guidance available on the link.

Have your say!

Have your say – Birth To 5 Matters Have your say Comment on the first draft of Birth to 5 Matters Tell us what you think of the first draft of Birth to 5 Matters by downloading the draft document below and then completing our online survey. Birth to 5 Matters guidance draft 1 – Dec 2020 (PDF file)Download Give us your feedback via ...