Good Start
Great Start®
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Welcome
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While everyone hopes that all children will have a good start to their learning and development, together we can also aim to make this a great start.
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Take a look around and explore the various sections which detail some of the educational projects and resources that I have designed and currently work with.
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Please click below to get in touch if you are interested in learning more.
With best wishes
Annabelle
About
My Story
After a long term career in education within the primary sector, I’ve worked as a professional educational consultant and advisor across a wide range of educational contexts since 2010.
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After spending focused time within early years education, training and development I became involved in parenting interventions which included running national training and supervision, post graduate study and a period spent as head of programme for an international NGO.
Latterly my focus has been on designing specific educational interventions with the premise of supporting practitioners in their delivery of key principles within early years development.
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Good Start Great Start, is both a summary of the aims contained within all the work here and also a dedicated programme in it's own right as you will see below.
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Programmes
Good Start Great Start®
Creative, adaptable, achievable, effective
Good Start Great Start®
Supporting early years transition and parental engagement with learning
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A six session programme designed for early years.
After a period of collaboration with Middlesex University where the programme was formally rolled out across the UK, the Good Start Great Start programme is now back home again and currently available as a package of bespoke in-house training for facilitators and with an optional informal custom evaluation.
Practitioners are trained to facilitate six sessions which are suitable for children aged 3 to 5 who attend alongside their primary carer.
Ideally two to four facilitators will work with groups of up to 10 parents with their child.
Once trained facilitators can adapt and run the programme as often as they wish.
Get in touch to learn more: annabellenarey@yahoo.co.uk
Funky Monkey Rhyme Time
A targeted intervention in support of early language development
A 6 session small group intervention designed to support a range of early language skills including: vocabulary development, sequencing, development of narrative, memory and recall, participation, confidence, recognition and generation of rhyme. With a follow on option of "Time to write" this intervention aims to help young children gain confidence within the foundations of literacy learning.
Testimonials
What My Clients Have to Say
This has been invaluable all round. Our TA has loved managing the Funky Monkey project and seeing the progress of the children build week on week has been wonderful.
Class teacher
After the first few sessions the children were desperate to come along for the next one. They loved the activities and I was amazed at how they were all taking part in the end. Even the most shy and least confident were able to talk about what they had been doing.
Teaching Assistant
We were delighted with the results we received with this intervention and will continue to run this programme each year.
Assistant Headteacher
