You already know what good practice looks like

Children asking their own questions and following them. Planning built from what children actually said last week. A Floorbook® you would hand an inspector without checking it first.

Everything we run to get you there is on this page: four subject areas, two certificate pathways, and a membership for whole teams.

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Early Years Leadership

For room leaders, managers and owners. Learn how to run staff meetings your team actually contributes to, record decisions as you make them, and walk into an inspection with the evidence already on the shelf.

A four-session online programme with Dr Claire Warden, plus ten CPD accredited Training Talks on team voice, accountability, mentoring and continuous improvement.

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Floorbooks & Child-Led Inquiry

For practitioners planning and documenting children's learning. Learn how to record what children say, plan the next step from it, and build a Floorbook® that shows the whole journey.

Courses include Introduction to Floorbooks®, Introduction to Talking Tubs™, Moving On with Floorbooks®, and Improving the Quality of Your Floorbooks®, plus Training Talks on collaborative planning and the words adults use.

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Infants & Toddlers

For anyone working with children under three. Capturing Curiosity: The Floorbook Approach® for Infants and Toddlers is Claire's new book on documenting learning before children have the words for it.

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Nature Pedagogy

For settings using outdoor space, from a city yard to a woodland. Learn how to build learning around wind, water, light and natural materials, and how to assess risk without shutting the activity down.

Courses include Introduction to Nature Pedagogy™ and the Learning with Nature series on rocks and stones, light and shadow, wind, and water.

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How the training works

  • Training Talks

    Training Talks are pre-recorded sessions with Dr Claire Warden going deep into one topic. All sessions are CPD accredited with 1 week to replay.

  • Training Courses

    Training Courses each contain an hour of CPD learning each, taken at your own pace, with a month's access and a certificate at the end. Take one on its own, or work through several in an area.

  • Advanced Certificates

    Our Advanced Certificate Pathways consist of seven modules to be completed over four to six months, with up to a year's access. 10 CPD hours and a certificate. The full methodology through one pathway.
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Advanced Certificates

Take your setting to the next level

An Advanced Certificate Pathway is seven courses in a set order, with the bonus material and the certificate included. Both are online and self-paced, and you can start any day of the year.

Child-led Inquiry With the Floorbook Approach

Advanced Certificate

Seven modules covering Floorbooks®, Talking Tubs™, the words adults use, documentation quality, and planning with infants and toddlers.

You also get Claire's eBook Talking and Thinking Floorbooks, a learning journal, a Floorbook® poster, and a certificate worth 10 CPD hours.

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Nature-based Learning

Advanced Certificate

Seven modules covering benefit risk assessment, rocks and stones, light and shadow, wind, water, and how to document it all in a Floorbook®.

You also get video filmed at Auchlone Nature Kindergarten, a learning journal, and a certificate worth 10 CPD hours.

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Not sure where to start?

Take our free 3.5 minute assessment to audit your practice and discover where your practice stands in Floorbooks, leadership, nature pedagogy or infants and toddlers, and the one step that will make the biggest difference next.

Complete the assessment and you'll get a free, tailored result that supports your journey towards a more inclusive, child-centred environment.

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