Encourage, Nourish and Grow: Supporting our youngest learners to thrive in nursery and school

Following our full day, in-person professional learning event focusing on effective methods of supporting our youngest children holistically, developing understanding to support their communication and emotional needs, and techniques to explore teachers’ own emotion regulation, here we highlight some practical resources to support everyday, high-quality practice in early learning and early primary settings.

The EIS PL Blog contains a curated selection of resources ready for the classroom, from toolkits to professional learning opportunities.

https://www.eis.org.uk/eis-professional-learning-blog/earlyyearseducationsection

The National Early Language and Communication (NELC) Project provides a wealth of tools, resources, research, and opportunities to share practice in regard to early intervention approaches to support effective language and communication development.

https://learn.nes.nhs.scot/90278/national-early-language-and-communication-nelc

Emotion Coaching UK provides a range of free resources to support teachers, practitioners, parents and carers in a range of emotion coaching strategies and theory, including communication styles, problem solving and personal practice development. 

https://www.emotioncoachinguk.com/resources-for-professionals-parents-carers

The Education Endowment Foundation Early Years Hub hosts a range of resources around self-regulation strategies, social and emotional learning strategies, and communication and language approaches.

https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/early-years