Little Barn Owls opens their doors for a professional development day not to be missed!

Winners of Nursery World’s Nursery of the Year 2015 and Enabling Environments Awards,

Little Barn Owls Nursery & Farm School invite you to a professional development event for

Nursery Managers, Owners, Head Teachers, Teachers, Practitioners and Early Years

Professionals:

The Third Teacher: Enabling Children in Environments of Enquiry:

Sat 27th February 2016 9.30-4pm £90 per person (20% discount for parties of 5 or more)

Little Barn Owls opened in 2010 and has since won many awards for its principled and innovative delivery of Early years education. This year we opened The Training School @ LBO and have delivered consultancy, workshops and professional visits days to practitioners all over the country and abroad.

Little Barn Owls is a 70 place Nursery & Farm School set on a working farm in rural West Sussex. We consider LBO to be a place of relationships, education and professional development. Most importantly we are a group of adults researching with children the important question of how to live well?

Our approach is a bit different. We have been influenced by the philosophies of the Reggio Emilia approach for several years, but also have a strong commitment to outdoor learning and Forest School principles. Our nursery has a large free-flow garden with a farm school that homes twenty animals, a large growing area, and indoor and outdoor art studios (Ateliers) where our professional artists (Atelieristas) work every day with children. We also run a forest school programme and employ dedicated Farm School and Outdoor Learning Coordinators to enable children’s emerging interests, fascination and theories to develop – often into long term enquiries which become projects of collaboration between children, pedagogues and artists. LBO is a place where chickens and pigs meet art, children and the natural inquisitiveness of the human condition.

On the professional development day, after a thorough tour of the nursery spaces, ateliers and farm school, we’d like to show you a presentation with examples of the way we work which demonstrate how an enabling environment with the right conditions for learning can lead children to engage in rich, long term projects of their own interest, inspired by our enquiry – based learning approach. Transport will be provided from the nursery, so we can do this part of the day in the comfort of a lovely nearby country hotel where we will also have lunch before the presentation starts.

Here’s what some recent visitors had to say about our last professional development day:

“I’m absolutely speechless.. I just can’t believe what I’ve seen today. I’m so inspired” Nursery Owner and Education MA student, London

“It’s so amazing, I have to pinch myself!” Wendy Scott MBE, Nursery of the Year Judge

Little Barn Owls received an Ofsted Outstanding grading in 2013 and has achieved three consecutive
outstanding grades in Learning and Development over the past 5 years. Owner and Director, Hayley Peacock is the founder of the Sightlines South East Network for Creative and Reflective Practise and has written about and presented the work of the nursery for various other organisations and industry publications such as Greenwich University, Nursery World and Teach Early Years Magazines.

Booking Information
Please provide the following details by cutting and pasting the following into an email to
info@littlebarnowls.co.uk to book your place on this professional development event:

Name (of all participants):
Professional Title/s:
Name of Setting/School or Organisation:
Contact email:
Contact telephone number:
Any dietary requirements we need to know about for any members of your group:

Payment details
The Third Teacher: Enabling Children in Environments of Enquiry is £90 per person
(20% discount for bookings of 5 or more), to include buffet lunch and refreshments.
Please send bacs transfers to:

Little Barn Owls LTD
Account No: 83290905 Sort Code: 20-42-58

Spaces fill up quickly, so please ensure we have confirmed your place before transferring any money to us!

Or please send a cheque made payable to Little Barn Owls LTD, Little Barn Owls Nursery & Farm School, Moat House Farm, Rusper Road, Horsham, RH12 3HE.