Shropshire Early Years Settings and Childminders

Services for Shropshire

Early Years Settings

2024 – 2025

MDT serves Shropshire schools and Early Years Settings as well as Childminders. We offer training, support and guidance for schools and Early Years settings in relation to EAL/ ethnic minority pupils, equalities and diversity. We also provide specialist EAL assessment and teaching. Many settings also have bespoke requests or require additional support that is not listed. MDT invite free direct contact to talk through any concerns and requests. Therefore, we provide bespoke one-off sessions at £360 which is a morning or an afternoon session to support any unique requests.

Specific Support for Shropshire Early Years Settings

MDT works in partnership with Early Years settings, childminders and nursery based primary schools to build capacity of Early Years settings to support the educational improvement of EAL learners. There is a wide range of focused support in consultancy visits and in the CPD program of training sessions. EAL Advisory visits are tailored to meet the needs of individual needs of settings. MDT provides a variety of support including:

• Visit to monitor progress of individual child
• Observation of target child and language assessment if necessary
• Additional meeting with parents
• ‘Learning walk’ style visit to provide feedback and guidance on EAL provision as a whole
• Observation of provision for EAL and ethnic minority children in the setting as a whole
• Staff meeting
• Meetings with individual staff
• Consultancy meeting with setting leader / EYFS lead
• Policies and practices
• Resources and environment audit
• Working with families

Following any visit, MDT will provide the setting a written report with a recommendation on overall provision and advice on best practice to support the EAL learners in the setting.

Online CPD Training courses:

MDT will provide CPD training sessions via TEAMS, which will be available to all settings and all staff and can be booked through Telford & Wrekin MDT Team (see the details below). All sessions are costed as £25 per delegate. This includes EYFS staff in schools, EYFS settings and childminders.

Early Years EAL Network Meetings:

To book a place on the online CPD courses and EAL Network meetings, please contact:

✉:  Multicultural.development@telford.gov.uk

☎ Tel: 01952 380828

Training and consultancy:

• For more information, please contact the team on multicultural.development@telford.gov.uk  

EAL assessment and teaching

• For more information, please contact the team on multicultural.development@telford.gov.uk