Practical ideas

Practical idea - Linking with other settings

16 Feb 2011

The ideas below will help you to develop positive and useful links with local schools and settings.

Contact your local primary school(s) and talk to the early years lead teacher.Find out about their early years provision and how literacy is taught.
Work with early years teachers at your local primary school(s) to set up two-way information sharing in order to improve provision in both settings. For example, your practitioners could visit the teachers at the school and vice versa.
Apart from the local primary school, identify other early years settings which your setting feeds into or which feed into your setting. Contact these settings and try to develop a relationship with them which enables both parties to share their practice.
If practically possible, organise some joint training for practitioners from both settings. This may make it more affordable especially if you work in a small setting.