Early Skills for Life, for 3 – 5 year-olds

We have worked with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) to develop a new Skills for Life Early Years programme for 3-5 year olds. 

The Skills for Life Early Years programme aims to promote young children’s personal, social and emotional development (PSED) and self-regulation skills. The ten week programme will build on our existing Early Years Wellbeing Activity Cards and our flagship social and emotional learning programme Zippy’s Friends for 5-7 year olds. The new programme will closely align with the early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework which includes PSED as one of three prime areas for learning and development.

Twelve early years settings from the North East of England are currently piloting the materials. We hope to have the programme more widely available at the end of 2024.