Norfolk Education Advisory Service

Professional Development  Centre

Woodside Road

Norwich

NR7 9QL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Constance Tyce

CT/lp

(01603) 433276 Ext. 182              

30 October 2002 

(01603) 700236

 

constance.tyce.edu@norfolk.gov.uk

 

Dear Colleague

 

EARLY YEAR CO-ORDINATORS AND LINK TEACHERS

 

For the last two years, the Advisory Teachers (Early Years), based with Norfolk Education Advisory Service (NEAS) at The Norwich Professional Development Centre, have supported the development of quality and improved standards of Education in the Foundation Stage in the private and voluntary sector. The Advisory Teachers also managed a number of ‘involved teacher’ schemes whereby teachers based in schools were encouraged to share and develop good practice with neighbouring settings.

 

To further improve quality and enhance the service, the Advisory Teachers have now taken on the role of Early Years Co-ordinators and will manage a team of Link Teachers (currently 11 but will expand over the next two years). Each of the newly appointed Link Teachers will have a specified caseload and will work directly with settings in the private and voluntary sectors. The target ratio for involvement is one teacher to every ten non-maintained settings by 2004.

 

The Link Teachers will be supporting the implementation of the Foundation Stage curriculum by visiting each setting at least once a term. Link Teachers will arrange these visits, respond to requests for advice and support from settings and manage the distribution of a wide range of resources from a newly established Early Years Resource Bank. The work of this team will be managed by Constance Tyce (Primary Adviser based at the PDC).

 

The Link Teachers hope to maintain existing and develop new cluster groups of providers across the maintained and non-maintained sectors. The existing training programme will be developed and expanded to include the maintained sector.  It is hoped to have a full training programme accessible to both sectors from September 2003 with joint training for Numeracy and the Foundation Stage Profile beginning in the current training programme.

 

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30 October 2002

 

 

 

 

I hope that you will welcome the involvement of the Early Years Co-ordinators and Link Teachers and we look forward to working with you in supporting quality in the Foundation Stage.  If you have any further queries contact details are attached for both Early Years Co-ordinators and Link Teachers for the three designated areas in the county.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Marcelle Curtis

Head of Early Years and Childcare Strategy

 

Enc.

Early Years Co-ordinators and Link Teachers

 

Manager of the Link Teacher Scheme – Constance Tyce           01603 433276

 

West

 

Early Years Co-ordinator                 Peter Bates                           01603 433276

 

Link teachers                                     Jo Rolfe                                  07979703314

                                                            Kathy Bailey                           07748180826

                                                            Jane Lidstone-Scott             07979703312

                                                            Peggy Webster (from 1.1.03)

 

South and East

 

Early Years Co-ordinator                 Mary Read                             01603 433276

 

Link teachers                                     Carole Stone                         07748180828                                                                       Linda Pieri                             07748180829                                                                       Karina Savage                       07979703313

 

 

North and Central

 

Early Years Co-ordinator                 Jo Mixer/Rosie Smith           01603 433276

 

Link Teachers                                    Clare Scott                             07748180825                                                                       Caroline Wiley                       07748180827                                                                       Janette Smith              07748180830

                                                            Heather Kirby                       

 

 

Carole Stone, Peggy Webster, Linda Pieri, Caroline Wiley and Janette Smith will be full time - the other Link Teachers are either school based or work part time.  It is probably best that the Early Years Co-ordinator be your first point of contact for enquiries.