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The Early Years Inspection Certificate

£274.99 + VAT

The Early Years Inspection Framework Certificate

Your step-by-step guide to the new 2019 Early Years Inspection Framework

9 Online learning modules | 50+ Training videos |  9 Self-assessment tests | Certificate of completion

The 2019 Ofsted Inspection Framework introduced 4 new judgements, you will now be judged on:

1. Quality of education

2. Behaviour and attitudes

3. Personal development

4. Leadership and management.

Early years settings may be left unsure how the new inspection framework translates into inspection day: but this doesn’t have to be so daunting once you have completed the Early Years Inspection Framework Certificate. Our unique online course is designed to support you with every step of the changes and requirements of early years inspections.

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Why this training?

✔ Thorough

Covers everything you need to know

✔ Online

 No need to take valuable time off from work to complete the training and you have a year’s access to the course 

✔ Available 24/7

 Learn on days and times that are convenient for you and work at your own pace 

✔ Contains multiple learning methods

Including practical articles, downloadable documents, videos and tests.

Agenda

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  • Module

  • The new regulatory framework

  • Changes to Common Inspection Framework (CIF to EIF)
  • Setting accountability
  • 4 key areas of inspection (‘outcomes’ for pupils removed)
  • Overall effectiveness
  • Focus on the curriculum and the quality of education – what this means for early years
  • Ofsted risk assessments
  • Inspection frequency and notice period –
  • Ofsted mythbusters
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  • Module 2

  • Quality of education

  • Research evidence for change
  • Curriculum intent – are the aims of your educational programmes?
  • Curriculum implementation – how will you deliver your educational programmes?
  • Curriculum impact – what have your educational programmes achieved?
  • Knowledge, skills and understanding
  • The quality of teaching
  • Attainment and progress of pupils
  • Curriculum and inclusion
  • The curriculum and disadvantaged pupils
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  • Module 3

  • Behaviour and attitudes

  • Attitude to learning
  • Behaviour
  • Respect
  • Grade descriptors for behaviour and attitudes
  • Training presentations for staff
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  • Module 4

  • Personal development

  • Spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
  • Fundamental British values
  • Healthy living
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Citizenship
  • Equality and diversity
  • Preparation for next stage
  • Grade descriptors for personal development
  • Training presentations for staff
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  • Module 5

  • Leadership and management

  • Vision and ethos and high expectations for all
  • Staff CPD
  • Staff workload and wellbeing
  • Engaging with learners and the community
  • Engaging with staff
  • Governance
  • Safeguarding
  • Common reasons for an ‘inadequate’ grade
  • Grade descriptors for leadership and management
  • Training presentations for the SLT
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  • Module 6

  • Curriculum depth and breadth

  • Learning and long-term memory
  • Importance of vocabulary and success
  • Systematic and cumulative knowledge acquisition
  • Cognitive skills
  • Teacher curriculum knowledge and expertise
  • Evaluating the curriculum
  • Local context and gaps in background
  • Evaluating early years provision
  • Grade descriptors for early years
  • Planning the curriculum
  • Curriculum leadership
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  • Module 7

  • Self-evaluation and improvement planning

  • Self-evaluating your setting to drive improvement
  • Using Ofsted inspection criteria
  • Demonstrating effectiveness to Ofsted
  • Rewriting your self-evaluation statement (SES)
  • Worked example SES
  • Developing an agenda for improvement
  • Linking CPD to improvement
  • Allocating resources for improvement
  • Getting to outstanding
  • Worked example improvement plan
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  • Module 8

  • Preparing for inspection

  • Previous inspection report
  • Conduct of inspectors
  • Preparing staff for inspection
  • Preparing governors for inspection
  • What evidence inspectors will require
  • Parent View
  • Displaying information on the setting website
  • Notice of inspection
  • Request for deferral of inspection
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  • Module 9

  • Inspection day and beyond

  • Meeting with leaders
  • Lesson observation
  • Work scrutiny
  • Post-inspection evaluation
  • Concerns and complaints
  • Draft inspection report and factual accuracy
  • Next steps

Speakers

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Sue Cowley

Sue Cowley

Author, Presenter and Trainer
Sue Cowley is a writer, presenter, teacher educator and author of 30 books on education. After qualifying as an early years teacher with a first class BEd (Hons), she taught into primary and secondary schools and overseas. Sue’s international bestseller Getting the Buggers to Behave has been translated into ten languages and is a set text at many universities. Her best selling guide for NQTs How to Survive your First Year in Teaching has been in print for 20 years. Sue has written articles and columns for numerous education publications, including the TES, Teach Primary, Early Years Educator and Nursery World. She was a regular presenter on Teachers TV and has featured in numerous education videos. She now works internationally as a teacher trainer and presenter. Sue has been part of the management team at her local preschool for the last ten years, and over that time has helped the setting move from a ‘Satisfactory’ Ofsted grading to an ‘Outstanding’ one. Her latest books are The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation and The Ultimate Guide to Mark Making in the Early Years published by Bloomsbury.

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