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20 August 2026

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Part 4 of the Early Years Compass series, by a former UK nursery manager (14 years, SENCO & DSL). Early years literacy is mostly oral — this guide shows your team exactly what must happen before formal phonics, and what to do at every stage. Inside the 9-page guide: the three strands explained simply · a development map from sensory reader to code breaker across five age bands · when to look closer — including when letter-sound links won’t stick · weak vs. strong observation examples · a Next Steps bank by age band · why “kat” is a triumph and tracing isn’t teaching · what inspectors’ phonics and love-of-reading questions really assess. Plus 2 printable A4 posters: “Literacy at a glance” and “Before the letters: the ladder to reading” — the six rungs of phonological awareness every room should climb before phonics.

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EYFS CPD Bundle | 7 Deep Dives + INSET Day

All 7 EYFS deep-dive guides, 14 printable posters and a ready-to-run INSET day, in one bundle. Written by a former UK nursery manager (SENCO & DSL, 14 yrs). Everything your team needs to understand child development across all seven areas of learning — for INSET days, inductions and whole-setting consistency. **What's included** - **7 practitioner guides** — PSED · Communication & Language · Physical Development · Literacy · Mathematics · Understanding the World · Expressive Arts & Design - **14 printable A4 classroom posters** — two for every area of learning - **The complete INSET Day Pack** — a 21-slide presentation with speaker notes, plus a facilitator guide with session plans, case studies and printables **Inside every guide** - A development map across the age bands, with practical provision priorities for each stage - "When to look closer" prompts to support early identification - Weak vs. strong observation examples, set side by side so the difference is obvious - A ready-to-adapt Next Steps bank - Schemas and the Characteristics of Effective Learning, explained in plain language - What inspectors' questions are really assessing — and how to answer them from your own practice **The posters** Wall-ready A4 prints your team will actually use, including *The Emotion Coaching Loop*, *Seven Moves That Grow Language*, *The Road to Writing Starts at Tummy Time* and *Process Over Product: Say This, Not That*. **Who it's for** Nursery managers, room leaders and EYFS coordinators who need to train a whole team without building the training from scratch. Also used for student and new-practitioner inductions, supervision conversations, CPD planning, and getting a team ready to talk confidently about their own practice. **How settings use it** - As a full INSET or training day, delivered by a manager with no external trainer and no preparation - Broken into seven shorter staff meetings, one area of learning at a time, across a term - As an induction pack handed to students, apprentices and new practitioners in their first week - As a reference shelf: managers keep the guides to hand for supervisions, planning and moderation **Why it was written** Written by a former UK nursery manager with 14 years in early years settings, including SENCO and Designated Safeguarding Lead roles. Everything here started as material used with a real team on a real training day — not theory written for a marketplace. **Format** PDF throughout, plus the presentation. Print the posters as they are; adapt the guides and session plans to your own setting. Every component is also available separately if you only need one area.

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