For Early Years Settings
Would you like a creative workshop for your early years setting or some training for your Early Years Practitioners?
We offer creative play, drama and storytelling to support early years settings and children at Early Years Foundation Stage. Find out more below about our workshops, projects and shows for early years.
Please get in touch to discuss how we can bring creativity into your early years setting. To make a booking or find out more about how we can support your early years setting, please contact our Creative Learning Project Manager, Rachel Millett, via our contact form.
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Access
We want to ensure that children and families can access and enjoy our work, and to reduce barriers wherever we can. For example we offer:
- Non verbal shows and storytelling for early years
- We ensure that early years practitioners are involved in the planning stages of our creative learning projects to ensure they are inclusive for all children involved.
- Our facilitators will come to you. We understand the logistical and cost barriers around travel for early years settings and will work around the timetables and spaces that you have available for us.
- We aim to have longer and deeper partnerships with our settings so that the children get the most out of our sessions. We appreciate it can take time for young people to build trust with new adults.
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“Working with Travelling Light has certainly enhanced their language development. In the sessions and following the performance, the open-ended nature of the work (the loose parts) gave the children the chance to speak up.”
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“It has given me confidence when working with the children in this way…It is very empowering for me and the children.”
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“The children are using their imagination far more.”
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“Everything is brilliant. The inclusion of SEN children has been very good. It is very creative.”
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“Amazing. Best play activity I’ve ever been to. Really communal, safe, inclusive and fun!”
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About Us
We create theatre with and for children and young people in schools and early years settings, supporting the cultural entitlement of hundreds of children per year.
Our wide-ranging programme includes bespoke workshops, creative play for early years and touring professional theatre into early years settings.
Partnerships
We have ongoing commitment to support and deliver creativity in early years settings. We run regular activities and creative learning programmes with our partner settings. For information on becoming a Partner Early Years Setting contact our Creative Learning Project Manager, Rachel Millett, via our contact form.
FAQ
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There are many ways we can work with your setting. This ranges from working with your staff teams to increase confidence in storytelling; to movement workshops for the children in your setting. We aim to be led and inspired by the young people that we work with, and so will always want to create something bespoke that works for the individuals in your setting. To find out how we have been developing this strand of our work, read our story: Celebrating a year of creative play with early years settings in Bristol.
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