This course is suitable for all childminders and childminders assistants. 

This course will explore:

• Brain development before the baby is born.
• What the baby already knows before they meet their parents for the first time.
• How babies learn and why the prime areas are important to support the emotional, sociable, communicative, physical and scientific baby!
• What you the practitioner needs to do to support learning and development.
• Understanding child development for the 2–3-year-olds.Brain development and what happens at the beginning, shapes what happens next.
• The importance of the 2-3 years stage of development for establishing the building blocks for lifelong learning.
• How 2-year-olds learn and why the prime areas of learning are still so important for child development.
• What you the practitioner needs to do to support learning and development.
• This will be a practical session full of ideas to take back to your settings