Working With Others in Nurseries and Early Years Settings

With WWO your Nursery and Early Years setting

• Will be calmer
• Staff will be happier and less stressed
• Staff will have even better relationships with the children
• Children will be engaged, interested, happy
• Children will be more aware of what they say and do and the impact on others
• Behaviour will be improved, with fewer to aggressive acts

The Working With Others approach and courses are based on developing and encouraging positive peer relationships, group learning, social skills, mutual and self-respect.

Our extensive work in the UK and Canada with children as young as 8 months has clearly shown that even very young children, can learn these skills, surprising the adults around them, exceeding and challenging expectations of what young children can do and say and how they can interact with others.

Benefit for the children in your care

• gain the vocabulary to understand and express how they feel
• understand how to ask for what they want
• be able to encourage others
• feel more secure and safe and happier
• be able to make good eye contact 
• have strategies for how to cope when they are upset or feel unhappy
• understand and know how to get on with others
• have communication skills to talk, listen and take turns in a conversation
• confidence in engaging with people they don’t know and new situations
• have the skills for getting on with others and being part of a group
• be more prepared for the transition to school, with reduced stress and anxiety, giving them the confidence and ability to settle in quickly and smoothly

Working With Others training courses are focussed on helping you to expand your professional skills, practical, hands-on, fun and a great opportunity to meet other practitioners in your area. Everyone will:

• Learn a range of different practical activities that you can do with young children to enhance their trust, communication and problem solving skills
• Gain confidence in strategies for enabling all children to be comfortable with others and develop positive relationships with their peers
• Explore how you can be a facilitator of learning between children
• Review and enrich the emotional and physical environment for your children  
• Plan, structure and support opportunities for co-operative and collaborative learning in your setting as part of a team.

To find out more please contact Cathy Ota on 07817 363193 or cathy@cathyota.com