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Early Years Education Foundations

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  • Emily Macfarlane
  • 25 Mins
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Unqualified Professionals

Duration

25 Mins

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Description

Ever found yourself drowning in a team that struggles with communication, or you've witnessed people being let down and disappointed because of poor information sharing. Well if so this is the lesson for you and your team, as Emily shares some hints and tips about how to effectively share information within the early years industry. Sharing of sensitive and important information is a vital component of working within early years either due to safeguarding, health or educational reasons. That's why is crucial we all have a strong understanding of how to effectively and meaningfully share information to our colleagues, parents and external bodies.

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Lesson Content

1. 7 Golden Rules Of Safeguarding

06:36

First up Emily deals with the most important component of information sharing that is safeguarding, as keeping children safe is our number one priority. Keeping children safe will often require information to be shared effectively, efficiently and in a safe manner. Join Emily in this lesson as she shares her 7 golden rules of information sharing regarding safeguarding.

2. Information Sharing During Transitions

06:43

In this lesson, Emily highlights 3 specific examples of transitions in the early years and how you can ensure information sharing is as effective as possible for the benefit of your children! Transitions can often get pushed to the back of a busy to do list, but ensuring meaningful information sharing is taking place is vital for the wellbeing of your children and their families!

3. Daily Handovers

03:44

This lesson covers the little exchanges of information during the day that can often be the most important. Whether through our parent partnerships or communicating information with your colleagues, the little things are often the one's we really need to get right!

4. Communicating Health Information

03:07

In this final lesson we're talking about effective communication when handling vital health information such as care plans or types of allergies/intolerances your children might have. Obviously ensuring everyone in your team (and those outside of your team who might need to know) has up to date information is crucial as Emily outlines in this lesson.

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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.

'They've helped me re-find my spark and passion for early years!'

After losing my love of Early Years and taking a 10 year break from the sector, I have found The Early Years network!!. It has totally opened my eyes to how much the industry has evolved and has sparked my passion to retrain. Their videos have reminded me why I loved early years so much, and I can't wait to be back in practice again.

Beverly Hill

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Regardless if you are a standard user or a corporate user, your membership grants you access to our entire collection of Network Classes so you can begin your educational journey with us today without any limitations.

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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.

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Unfortunately for the time being videos are only available in English, but maybe one day...

Can I access The Early Years Network if I don't have an early years qualification?

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.

What subjects are covered on The Early Years Network?

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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