Early Years

Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team Early Years Ordinarily Available Provision Virtual Training We are running a virtual training session about using the Early Years Ordinarily Available Provision. See attached flyer. The training is suitable for anyone who works with children from birth to 5, and will give you information about […]

The Northumberland Family Hub app has an exciting new update! The app now not only includes carefully selected videos from the Tiny Happy People website, designed to help parents and carers to chat, read and play with their children. It now includes a Northumberland specific section. Here parents and carers

Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team Early Years Ordinarily Available Provision Virtual Training We are running a virtual training session about using the Early Years Ordinarily Available Provision. The training is suitable for anyone who works with children from birth to 5, and will give you information about how to

Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team Summer 25 working families code eligibility  We are really sorry to say that whilst we are cleaning the data from headcount we are recognising that there are still a number of providers offering places to parents with ineligible codes for the term. Codes with

Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team Early Years Ordinarily Available Provision Virtual Training We are running a virtual training session about using the Early Years Ordinarily Available Provision – see attached flyer. The training is suitable for anyone who works with children from birth to 5, and will give you

Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team Inclusion Stories – Week 4  It’s the 4th week of our inclusion in early years focus. This weeks case study demonstrates how Amble Links Primary School adapted their practice to meet the unique needs of their cohort… Please find case study attached to find

Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team Northumberland Family Services Directory https://northumberlandeducation.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Family-Services-Directory-guidance-Pdf-2.pdf Many providers hold a Carescheme on the above directory setting out their childcare offer. Thank you to all who have recently updated or created a new scheme. Northumberland FSD Provider Careschemes are used widely by parent/carers and professional organisations

Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team REMINDER – SUM 2024-25 Headcount (PVI Providers) The deadline for submitting your summer term headcount return is this Friday (16th May)! If you require a password reset, or cannot locate your file, please email earlyyearsteam@northumberland.gov.uk 2, 3 & 4 year old children need to

This session is open to all schools in a Northumberland School Alliance. Thank you to those of you who have signed up to attend your Alliance moderation session.  The focus Early Learning Goals (ELGs) for the moderation sessions are ‘Speaking’ and ‘Writing’. We will also discuss up to 2 additional ELGs chosen

Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team Summer Term Training Directory Please find attached Northumberland’s Early Years training directory overview for the summer term. To book onto any of the outlined courses and for further information, login to your School Readiness Passport account Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements updates – September 2025

Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team  Headcount SUM 2024-25 For those of you who submit your early years data via school360, the pre-populated forms are now available in the SUM 2024-25 file in your school360 account. Submission deadline – Friday 16th May. To locate your file go to Drive > use the

If your school is in one of the Northumberland School Alliances, you will have received an email inviting you to an EYFS Profile moderation session, taking place in May. If you haven’t signed up yet, it’s not too late. Follow the link attached here to sign up for your alliance moderation session.