Are you an early years educator looking to create a nurturing and mentally healthy environment for the children in your care? Join us for a transformative class that will equip you with practical and effective strategies to uplift young minds and foster emotional well-being in your classroom. In this class, you’ll discover simple yet powerful techniques to create positive interactions and environments that support and strengthen children’s mental health. From the magic of movement to the benefits of outdoor play, you’ll learn how to integrate mood-boosting practices into your daily routine. But that’s not all—each lesson is designed to inspire you with fresh ideas that are easy to implement and highly impactful. Ready to make a lasting difference in the lives of the children you teach? Watch now and take the first step towards becoming an even more supportive and mindful educator. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn and grow alongside your peers—your journey to a more joyful and mentally healthy classroom starts here!
1. The Power of Positive Affirmations
03:04This first lesson emphasises the importance of using positive affirmations in the classroom. Educators learn how to incorporate affirmations into daily routines to help children build self-esteem, foster resilience, and create a positive mindset. The lesson includes examples of effective affirmations and guidance on how to encourage children to develop their own.
2. Movement Is Good For The Brain
02:47In this lesson, Emily explores how physical movement can positively impact mental health. It covers different types of movement activities that can be integrated into the daily schedule, from structured exercises to free play. The lesson highlights the connection between physical activity and emotional well-being, showing how movement can reduce anxiety, improve mood, and enhance focus.
3. Getting Outdoors & Self-Regulation
03:07This lesson focuses on the benefits of outdoor play and nature exposure for self-regulation and mental health. Educators learn about the calming effects of nature and how outdoor environments can help children manage emotions, develop self-control, and reduce stress.
4. Finding Happiness In Creativity
03:14Creativity is linked to emotional expression and mental well-being, and this lesson explores ways to nurture creativity in young children. Emily provides strategies for creating an environment that encourages imaginative play, artistic expression, and problem-solving. The lesson emphasises the importance of allowing children the freedom to explore and create without fear of judgment, supporting their emotional and cognitive development.
5. Deep Connections & Human Interaction
04:14The final lesson focuses on the importance of building deep, meaningful connections with children. It explores how strong relationships and positive interactions with educators, peers, and family members are crucial for a child’s mental health.
Having worked in early years since the age of 16 early childhood learning means everything to me, which is why I'm so passionate about ensuring a platform dedicated to our communities learning exists. I've experienced first hand the lack of genuine and affordable learning opportunities that exist within early years and trying to provide my teams with high quality and flexible training on a non-existent budget is an impossible task. Its our mission to change this.
Having The Early Years Network at our fingertips has completely changed the way we develop our staff members. The platform allows me to inspire staff to follow their own individual passions through easy and accessible training.
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The Early Years Network is all about meaningful learning that will transform the way you interact with and educate young children, not attempting to fill your head with information for the sake of a quick superficial quiz.
Unfortunately for the time being videos are only available in English, but maybe one day...
YES! Content on The Early Years Network has been created for people interested in early years regardless of age, experience or academic background. We have something for everyone whether you are a childminder, parent/carer or an early years professional.
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Whilst The Early Years Network is not an accredited body we do offer skill-based learning helping people transform knowledge and theory into meaningful change and improvement to their practice, environments and curriculum. Our Network Courses are created and hosted by leading experts within their academic fields, and upon completion of each course learners will be provided with a certificate to evidence their achievement.
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We are a learning and development platform dedicated to the magical world of early years! We cover a wide range of topics, from child brain development to the importance of safeguarding and child wellbeing, through high-quality and immersive video content.
We cover everything Early Years from ‘Cognitive Development Theories’, to the science behind play and even how to build the best rocket ship out of cardboard (you won't want to miss that video!). If you can think of a topic in early years we've probably got a video on it!
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