GARDENING AS A TEACHING AID
Foundation Stage [pre school under 5`s, Prior to Key Stage 1 ]
Learn innovative ways of teaching the required learning skills, included in the curriculum, combined with learning about gardening, nature and outdoor space. Learn from a horticultural expert how to successfully link land based skills to the national curriculum. Learn how to provide each child with an appreciation of nature and the environment. Skills vital to our future generations.
Course duration 1/2 day
Certificate of attendance will be provided.
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This course is suitable for anyone who deals with young children, e.g. early years and play work practitioners. Attendees will learn how to react in an emergency situation with young children. This is a recognised programme giving a 3-year certificate and covers 12 hours of taught input. The course is aimed at meeting the National Standards and applies paediatric knowledge to the first aid principles as outlined below.
- Resuscitation
- Treatment of shock
- Treatment of unconscious casualty
- Bleeding, burns and scalds
- Injuries to bones and joints
- Asphyxia
- Managing an incident
- Penetration of bullet wound
- Eye injuries
- Poisoning
- Record keeping and accident reporting
- Infection control
Course duration 12 hours
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To comply with legislation requirements i.e. The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and to equip participants with the skills to be able to carry out risk assessments.
Objectives:
• The evolution of the risk assessment process.
• The legislative aspect of risk assessment.
• Defining hazards, risk and dangers and showing the importance of their interrelationship.
• Identifying at risk' groups and magnitude of risk.
• Ranking risks in priority order to facilitate management decision-making.
• Analysing existing control measures.
• Implementing new control measures.
• Developing a safe system of work.
• Monitoring and reviewing the risk assessments.
• Delegates will be able to carry out health and safety risk assessments with knowledge of the current legislation in order to provide a safe working environment.
Tailor made to suit individual needs therefore duration can vary from 1/2 1 day.
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This course is relevant for early years and play work practitioners. It aims to raise participants understanding of their legal requirements for health and safety in an early years and childcare setting and how to apply them in practice.
Objectives:
• An introduction to health and safety and the importance of maintaining health and safety standards within the childcare setting.
• The candidate will gain an understanding of the legal requirements of the health and safety at work 1974, regarding risk assessment and the identification of hazards.
• How to establish and maintain a safe and secure environment for children.
• How to explain the different procedures involved in different types of emergency and what would be involved in an evacuation.
• Develop an understanding of what your role and responsibilities are with regard to health and safety.
• An understanding of your role and responsibilities in preventing accidents and illness within the work place.
Course duration 1 day
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Lifting Course for Employees
This course explains the problems associated with manual handling and sets out best practice in dealing with them. It provides useful practical advice for employers, safety representatives and individual employees on how to reduce the risk of injury from manual handling.
The first part of the course is about the theory of lifting and examination into what causes back pain.
The second part is a practical session when various types of lifting techniques will be demonstrated and practised by all course participants.
Course duration 3 hours
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There are 40,000 injuries to children on playgrounds each year.
This 2 day course is aimed at those who are responsible for the operational (the one to three monthly) inspections and those in a supervisory or maintenance role.
A RoSPA Certificate of Training will be given to all participants who complete the course. Those completing the course will also be eligible to take the Register of Play Inspectors International exam for Operational Inspections.
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A tool often used for building calculations, it can also be used as a great way of storing and managing data. Record each Childs attendance and have Excel automatically produce your daily/weekly/termly attendance figures, progression and staff records. Charts are powerful visual aids that can enhance a presentation or important documents particularly for business cases for funding or as part of demonstration of achievements to parents and potential customers.
Course duration 1 day
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Build professional looking presentations and displays. This product lets your imagination run free and a whole range of animation effects enables you to impress your viewers. Project your PowerPoint creation onto a while board to keep your audience entertained visually or use it to compliment your presentation. Create a slideshow of the children and have it running on parents evening or open days!
Excellent tool to use with children to increase their confidence in ICT as they can review impressive results immediately.
Course duration ½ day course
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Create professional newsletters, school brochures, merit certificates and flyers.
Duration depends on level of experience. Please call and discuss.
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From basic letter writing to creating imaginative banners, MS Word is a tool used widely by individuals and business. Use Word to create signs and posters to help promote school events.
Learn how to use great time saving tools:-
Templates / Form Fields to create reusable forms or letters
Mail Merge- to enable you to create a single letter to each pupil's guardians, individually named and addressed together with address labels to mail quickly and professionally.
Course duration ½ day course
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Children love taking photographs, and seeing themselves in print.
This course enables you to get the most from your photographs. Learn how to enhance photo quality and reduce red eye. Insert photographs into documents and use crop and resize for best effect.
Course duration to be determined by individual requirements.
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Option 1:
An opportunity to involve the whole team with a ½ day session to optimise team dynamics and build on strengths. This can be arranged at a time to suit you.
Option 2:
An opportunity to network with other childcare specialists on a ½ day open training course. This course is designed for key personnel and leaders to develop techniques to use in the workplace, to improve working relationships and achieve more by working as an effective unit.
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Learn the art of effective communication with this 1 day course and get the most out of each contact with parents, guardians and Ofsted.
Use communication skills to forge beneficial links with schools.
Enhance your listening and questioning skills, develop assertive ways to communicate and learn how to manage conflict through effective communication.
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This course can be delivered in Modular form as required.
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Invest the time in your own self improvement, achieve your life goals.
Is your life full of If's and But's
?
Are you creating a future or is just happening to you?
½ day sessions with a qualified Life Coach will help to inspire you to change your life.
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• CIEH Level 1 Award in Food Safety Awareness in Catering
• CIEH Level 1 Award into Induction into Food Safety in Manufacturing
• CIEH Level 1 Award in Food Safety Awareness for Retail
The Food Hygiene Regulations require all food handlers to be supervised and instructed and/or trained in food hygiene matters. The new CIEH Level 1 awards in food safety are run as half-day courses, suitable for a variety of candidates, including new employees with minimal or no prior food safety knowledge, employees handling low-risk or wrapped food or those who work front of house, such as waiting or check out staff, as well as back of house such as kitchen porters or warehouse staff.
The Level 1 awards are sector specific and the training programme has been developed to allow courses to be tailored to meet the needs of staff working in catering, manufacturing or retail environments.
Objectives
The training programme covers the following topics:
- Food Safety (food hygiene, hazards, responsibilities)
- Personal Hygiene
- Cleaning
- Contamination
Course duration Minimum 3 hours, half day course
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