Early Years Consultancy

Mary Barlow is an Early Years Consultant and Endorsed High/Scope Trainer delivering development programmes for Managers and Practitioners across children’s early year’s education and care. With a professional background in nursery nursing she has worked as a Nursery Nurse across the private, public and voluntary sectors, including management roles in Barnardo’s and Sure Start programmes.

Working as an independent consultant and trainer for over five years Mary has developed an extensive range of workshops including the Beginning with Babies programme which is now being reported nationally and delivered in a range of different formats. As part of developing an overall seamless approach to Early Year’s practice her approach to consultancy together with Management and High/Scope workshops enable Early Year’s managers and workers to build and embed best practice.

Her focus is the Early Years Foundation Stage and approach to learning is ‘bottom up’. The journey she takes people on is from supporting and nurturing very young children, through to children becoming creative, open minded thinkers with confidence and a skill set to approach the curriculum in school with a thirst for learning. Training programmes and workshops she creates are designed to meet the current challenges in Early Years and reflect the philosophy of Active Learning as the most effective way of learning. This provides a balance between activity, discovery, resources, information and discussion.

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