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A 3 hour workshop on recognising and helping children with anxiety. Looks at what is anxiety and have an understanding of anxiety. The different types of anxiety. How children are affected by anxious parents?

Compulsory Safeguarding training for all South Gloucestershire Breakthrough Mentors and REACH staff.

The half-day Raising Safeguarding Concerns course is essential training for all front-line staff and managers who are involved in providing services to adults and children at risk and who work directly with service users.

The course will cover how to recognise Safeguarding concerns, local policies and procedures, and how to raise Safeguarding concerns.

This course is aimed at managers, communication leads, experienced practitioners, leaders and room leaders who are passionate about challenging and extending children’s speech, language and communication to narrow the gap and give children a voice and expand their world.

Building children’s vocabulary is critical for developing good language and communication skills. It is often a high priority especially when working with children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Evidence suggests that approaches need to be both implicit and explicit and vocabulary needs to ensure there is both depth and breadth of word knowledge for children to develop and improve their memory to generalise in situations and to expand and engage in the world around them. The more words a child hears, the better a talker that child becomes. The more a child explores, the more they wonder. Both the quantity of words and also the quality of conversations influence the ability to be a good communicator as a lifelong tool for the future.

How do we embed opportunities to develop children’s self-regulation and how they can motivate themselves to engage in learning? How do we use the teachable moments and develop learning based on accurate information, collected through observation and assessment to ensure children receive appropriate challenge and support?

We will explore how to extend children’s language to infinity and beyond.

“Speech, language and communication skills are fundamental to the development of learning and social and emotional well-being. They are essential to support the development of skills for life and work.” The Communication Trust: Every Child Understood (2008)