Are you struggling to find the time to access quality early years CPD opportunities?
Whether you’re a manager keen to support your staff’s development or an educator in a nursery, pre-school or childminding setting looking to fill some gaps in your early years knowledge, our Spotlights and CPD Spotlight Collections provide affordable, flexible and fun learning whenever and wherever suits you best.
These flexible sessions have all been endorsed by CPD accreditation so you can be reassured that they all include effective learning opportunities.
These pre-recorded bite-sized CPD sessions offer a unique deep-dive into key aspects of early years topics, including:
- keeping children safe online (updated in line with 2025 EYFS reforms)
- creating a culture of safeguarding
- let’s investigate science
… and many more.
These 30- to 45-minute recorded presentations can be used individually or in groups and are perfect for early educators who want to access CPD on the go. For those working in group settings.
Do you need to give your team meeting a focus?
Spotlights are ideal for internal staff training sessions, as part of staff meetings, and new starter inductions. Each recorded session includes a ‘pause for thought’ moments and prompts to encourage you to reflect on the content of the Spotlight and how it relates to your own practice or, in the case of staff teams, to discuss as part of a group activity.
Spotlights are available both individually and as part of CPD Spotlight Collections.
Access to each Spotlight / CPD Spotlight Collection is available for an initial three months with unlimited access to help you to consolidate your learning – plus the option of purchasing extended access at a discounted price at the end of this period.
Each Spotlight session also includes:
- a reflection sheet that can be used to take notes or reflect during the ‘pause for thought’ moments as part of the session
- an impact evaluation sheet to allow you to reflect on and evaluate what you have learned from the recording, highlighting any aims and objectives you wish to focus on going forward or identify areas of further interest
- an action plan to collate any identified objectives and next steps, either individually or as a team
To find out more about our Spotlights and CPD Spotlight Collections, or to purchase a session or bundle, visit our training and resource hub EYA Central.
All of our Spotlights can be delivered virtually in-house too.
Spotlight Collections
Requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage – the seven areas of learning
This CPD Spotlight Collection delves deeper into each of the educational programmes and explores how these shape the creation of rich and unique learning experiences for the children in your provision. It will look at how the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) influences the development of the educational programmes (curriculum) by promoting teaching, learning, and seeking to provide inclusivity, quality and consistency in all early years provision.
In each Spotlight, we will also consider trends from recent Ofsted Inspections and explore what inspirational practice looks like.
The Spotlights included in this collection are:
- Developing your personal, social and emotional development area of learning curriculum
- Developing your physical development area of learning curriculum
- Developing your communication and language area of learning curriculum
- Developing your expressive arts and design area of learning curriculum
- Developing your literacy area of learning curriculum
- Developing your mathematics area of learning curriculum
- Developing your understanding of the world area of learning curriculum
We are also offering a special 50% discount on the following publications when you purchase this Collection:
- Small hands, messy play
- Reconnecting with nature
- Exploring the EYFS
- Discovering maths through play
- Language links
Practical advice for your Ofsted inspection
Getting ‘the call’ can be a stressful and worrying time for even the most confident early educator – but with the right information, support and guidance, Ofsted inspections can come to be seen as a welcome opportunity to show off your provision, rather than a daunting prospect. So how can you ensure your setting puts its best foot forward at your next inspection?
Our informative and comprehensive CPD Spotlight Collection has been put together to support you as leaders and educators to be able to showcase your provision to inspectors as effectively as possible, to help highlight the great quality provision being delivered at your setting and, crucially, the difference you are making to the children in your care.
The Spotlights included in this collection are:
- Teachable moments
- Curriculum thinking
- Re-thinking cultural capital
- Creating a culture of safeguarding
We are also offering a special 50% discount on the following publications when you purchase this Collection:
- Effective Leadership for High Quality Early Years Practice
- Not On My Watch!
- Inspiring Every Learner
- Creating a culture of safeguarding
Deep dive into the early years inspection framework
In this CPD Spotlight Collection, we take a closer look at the Early Years Inspection Handbook, focusing on each of the final judgements that Ofsted will make to contribute towards an overall grade.
We will discuss the aspects that are considered, using the grade descriptors for Good as a starting point. There is an opportunity to explore each grade descriptor in more detail to reach a shared understanding of what it entails.
Each session will also include extracts from recent (anonymised) inspection reports as we consider some of the strengths and weaknesses that Ofsted identify.
The Spotlights included in this collection are:
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
- Making the most of the early years inspection handbook
We are also offering a special 50% discount on our publication Exploring the Education Inspection Framework when you purchase this Collection.
Supporting early years best practice - partnerships with families
Positive partnerships with families are essential in supporting children’s learning and development in their early years. For this reason, supporting families to become involved in their children’s learning and development, and to understand the importance of the home learning environment and what they can do to enhance this, should be a central part of any high-quality early years provision.
This CPD Spotlight Collection will explore how, through strong partnerships, settings and families can work together to provide the best support for each unique child.
Included in this Collection are:
- Meeting the needs of looked after children
- Process over product: educating our families
- Settling in new starters: it is a process and not an event
- The impact of an effective home learning environment
We are also offering a special 50% discount on the following publications when you purchase this Collection:
- Creating a learning environment in the home
- Play cards for the home environment!
Supporting early years best practice - your continuous provision
This CPD Spotlight Collection aims to support you in developing and maintaining resources for children to investigate and explore in their play. Continuous provision builds on children’s interests and links to the characteristics of effective learning: playing and exploring, active learning, and creating and thinking critically.
The Spotlights included in this Collection are:
- An introduction to discovering and developing loose parts
- Let’s investigate science
- Outdoor learning – whatever the weather
- Let’s talk music
- Multi-sensory maths
We are also offering a special 50% discount on the following publications when you purchase this Collection:
- Small messy play hands
- Reconnecting with nature
- Discovering maths through play
- Introducing forest school in the early years
Supporting the requirements of the EYFS – childminding professionals
In this CPD Spotlight Collection series, we explore the content and requirements of the updated EYFS statutory framework for childminders, looking at the principles that underpin delivery of the EYFS in early years provision, and considering how non-statutory guidance (Development Matters, Birth to Five Matters and Help for Early Years Providers) can support the implementation of your early years educational programme/curriculum.
We will also discuss how the characteristics of effective learning underpin all areas of learning and support children’s self-regulation, and take a deep-dive into two key EYFS requirements: keeping children safe online and promoting good oral health.
The Spotlights included in this Collection are:
- Getting to grips with the EYFS (childminding professionals)
- Getting to grips with the EYFS – an overview of the non-statutory guidance
- Exploring the characteristics of effective learning
- Keeping children safe online
- Why promoting children’s oral health should make you smile
Supporting the requirements of the EYFS - group providers
In this CPD Spotlight Collection series, we explore the content and requirements of the updated EYFS statutory framework for group and school-based providers, looking at the principles that underpin delivery of the EYFS in early years provision, and considering how non-statutory guidance (Development Matters, Birth to Five Matters and Help for Early Years Providers) can support the implementation of your early years educational programme/curriculum.
We will also discuss how the characteristics of effective learning underpin all areas of learning and support children’s self-regulation, and take a deep-dive into two key EYFS requirements: keeping children safe online and promoting good oral health.
The Spotlights included in this Collection are:
- Getting to grips with the EYFS (group settings)
- Getting to grips with the EYFS – an overview of the non-statutory guidance
- Exploring the characteristics of effective learning
- Keeping children safe online
- Why promoting children’s oral health should make you smile
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