Nursery Startups
We are your one-stop-shop to get you from the earliest blueprints through to your opening day and beyond! Our consultants do everything from advising on design and furnishings, to providing best-of-breed policies and planning structures, to training your new staff team. Professional guidance on how to successfully run/maintain a QUALITY childcare program/business.
Early Years Teacher Training
We provide accredited training courses on everything from safeguarding to first aid. We also write and deliver bespoke training courses to share the best practice that we see every day and promote across our industry. Our trainings are quarterly and you can call or visit the office to know when the next one starts.
Tailored Consultancy
Our consultants quickly and skilfully identify your strengths and areas for improvement, and work with you and your team to close gaps and bring out the best in your everyday practice. Whatever your requirements, Playnest Consult will collaborate with you to achieve the vision you have for your nursery and Early years educators
Mystery Shopper
Need some intelligence and insight into your competitors? Want to see how your staff teams are handling sales and prospective customers? Our mystery shopping teams will visit settings and give you detailed feedback on their strengths, weaknesses and potential game-changers. Knowledge is power!
Bespoke Training
Whether you've identified an area that you feel needs additional focus, or whether the constantly-changing world of Early Years means that you staff need to be brought up to date on current best practice, Playnest Consult has the training you need. Our dedicated trainers cover all aspects of Early Years provision as well as statutory requirements.
Mystery Shopper
Whether you regard paperwork as a necessary evil or the bedrock of ensuring quality in your provision, you appreciate that having up-to-date policies and procedures is vital to your success. Our off-the-peg policies reflect the best in the industry and are a great foundation for your settings. We can also help you showcase your dedication to quality with GES by writing or reviewing your Self-Evaluation Form.
Curriculum Development and Implementation
Sometimes providers and staff find it difficult to implement early year’s curriculum. This can be for numerous reasons, including understanding or devising a planning system that allows you to spend time with the children while at the same time recording learning and development in an effective way. Playnest Consult can work with your team to develop and implement the best practices to deliver the curriculum. We can guide you on selection of workbooks/ textbooks that make the curriculum more practical.
Financial & Sustainability Check
In a rapidly-changing world where it can be hard to keep up with legislative changes as well as the economic situation, it's easy to lose control of revenue and cost. We can deep dive into your operations, understand your cost pressures and model your revenue streams to ensure that you survive and thrive in your unique combination of location, size and mix of customers - giving you the maximum bang for every buck!
Classroom Design and Decoration
We believe children learn best when learning is fun filled. Classroom displays are one of the invisible teachers that play a good role in child development. We at Playnest Consult take classroom design and decoration to the next level and we can give your classroom a face lift. We equally train teachers to develop teaching and learning materials that make teaching easy and learning fun.
Outdoor Environment
Do you have a fabulous indoor environment but outdoor is a bit of a mess? Do staff think outdoor play is a time to chat while children run themselves ragged? If so we can help. The outdoor environment is just as important as the indoor environment and children should be able to access the same quality of learning opportunities wherever they choose to play. Playnest Consult can help to transform your outdoor provision and we also train staff on how to use the outdoors effectively.
Observation & Assessment
We know these two words are often daunting. For all providers whether a childminder or nursery practitioner observation and assessment is really important to helping children to progress. We also know that it is hard to fit in paperwork as well as looking after the children and we have often heard "there's too much paperwork, when are we meant to play with the children?". Fear not, we can work together to understand what observation and assessment is really about, work out a system that works for your setting and dispel the myths that go with it.