This wellbeing in the early years course helps practitioners understand what wellbeing really is and how to nurture it in the children they care for. Wellbeing is a combination of positive emotions, engagement, positive relationships and accomplishments, and it underpins every aspect of a child’s life. It can be broken down into eight dimensions — psychological, environmental, financial, physical, social, emotional, spiritual and intellectual — each of which plays its part in how a child thinks, feels and learns.
For your setting, understanding wellbeing is about more than theory. Wellbeing is closely linked to mental health, and supporting good mental health matters not just for each child but for their whole family — helping to make your setting, and the homes your children return to, the most positive places they can be.
What you’ll learn
- What wellbeing is and the positive elements that make it up
- The eight dimensions of wellbeing, from emotional to environmental
- What affects a child’s wellbeing, both inside and outside your setting
- How wellbeing connects with mental health for children and families
- How to support children’s wellbeing within the Early Years Foundation Stage
- Why actively developing wellbeing is so important in the early years
Who this course is for
This course suits early years practitioners at every level who want to place children’s wellbeing at the heart of their practice. It works well as individual professional development or as a shared focus for your whole team.
Why this training matters
Wellbeing underpins every aspect of a child’s life, and the course shows you how to support it within the framework your setting already works to — the Early Years Foundation Stage. Because good wellbeing is so closely tied to mental health, practitioners who understand what shapes it are better placed to give every child the strongest possible start, and to support families along the way.
How the course works
The course is delivered fully online, so you and your team can train at a time and place that suits you, on any device. It takes around one hour to complete, making it easy to fit around the demands of a busy nursery day.
Your certificate
Successful candidates are awarded the National Nursery Training Wellbeing in The Early Years Course Completion Certificate, which can be used as evidence for compliance and audit and counts towards continuing professional development (CPD). National Nursery Training is an NFAQ-accredited provider and an accredited CPD Training Provider (#776846) with the CPD Accreditation Group.
