Supporting Children’s Transition to Schools
£20 + VAT
Our Supporting Children’s Transition to Schools course is suitable for parents, teachers and support staff, throughout this course you will gain a greater understanding of how to help and support children starting school, how to prepare children for school and the potential effects of transition.
This course includes the option to play audio at no extra cost!
All about this Supporting Children’s Transition to Schools course
This course is designed to give learners an in-depth knowledge of supporting children’s transition to school. It will include both information on transition and practical tips on how to help support children when starting school. The transition process can be a difficult time for children, their parents and carers, and teachers and support staff, so it is important to know how to try and ease this.
In this course you will look at how transitioning to school can impact on children’s development, both positively and negatively, you will consider some of the practical ways in which practitioners can help to prepare children for school alongside working towards the Early Learning Goals.
You will explore children’s ‘school readiness’ under the following categories: working with themselves, working with other children and working with adults, you will look at these categories in-depth and consider what is included in them. You will also take a look at how practitioners can help to promote communication, confidence, independence, managing and controlling feelings and behaviour, and co-operation in their settings through the prime areas of learning.
Finally you will explore how transition can be defined, its effects on the brain and its potential effects on children’s development in the Early Years Foundation Stage. You will also consider insecure attachment relationships and securely attached children.
In order to complete the course, you must achieve 80% or more in the final multiple choice quiz.
You will earn 3 CPD points on completion of the course, this course will take around 3 hours to complete and the certificate will last for two years.
- Fully CPD registered
- Completed online with instant downloadable certificate
- Fully printed certificate posted next day
- Suitable for anyone working in a school/nursery setting
- Complete the online multiple choice assessment as many times as you need to pass
Units covered
- Unit 1 – What is school readiness – In this first unit we will look at how ‘school readiness’ is defined, the dangers of the ‘school readiness’ agenda, starting school, and a positive definition of the term that you can use going forward.
- Unit 2 – What are the characteristics of school readiness – This unit will help you to understand some of the characteristics of school readiness. You will address children’s ‘school readiness’ under the following categories: Working with themselves, working with other children and working with adults. You will look at what these things are and how practitioners can help to promote them in their settings through the prime areas of learning.
- Unit 3 – How to prepare children for school – In this unit you will look at some of the practical ways in which practitioners can help to prepare children for school alongside working towards the Early Learning Goals. Finally you will think about children moving from Reception to Year 1 at the end of the Early Years Foundation Stage, as well as children moving from one setting to another e.g. from nursery to school.
- Unit 4 – The potential effects of transition – In the final unit you will look at the potential effects of transition, both positive and negative as well as taking a look at how transition can be defined, its effect on the brain and its potential effects on children’s development in the EYFS.
RoSPA assured training course
This course has been checked and assured for quality and accuracy by RoSPA, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, to ensure it meets their exacting standards and is up-to-date. Formed over 100 years ago, RoSPA are committed to increasing safety measures and reducing accidents throughout numerous industries as well as campaigning for better standards in health and safety worldwide.
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Complete the final quiz
Every course is assessed through a multiple choice quiz. These quizzes use a bank of questions that have multiple options and you need to choose the correct one. You need to answer a specific number of questions correctly to pass the course and get your certificate.
If you don’t pass first time it is no problem. You can attempt the quiz as many times as you need until you pass so there is nothing to worry about.
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