Early Years Consultant
Supporting nursery and school leaders to raise the quality of
their EYFS provision and improve outcomes for children.
Advice
Tailored strategies to enhance your Early Years practice.
Support
Guiding leaders to improve teaching and learning outcomes.
Training
Empowering you with tools to elevate EYFS standards.
Zoe Kennell, Early Years Consultant
With over 20 years of experience in Early Years education, I’m passionate about helping schools and nurseries create environments where children can thrive. My focus is on supporting leaders to raise the quality of their EYFS provision, ensuring that every child has the best possible start.
Areas of expertise
- Child-led teaching and learning through high quality interactions.
- Early Reading and Writing in EYFS and KS1.
- Phonics and Handwriting.
- Leadership and Management of EYFS.
- Developing an outstanding learning environment.
- Creating a bespoke curriculum to meet the complex needs of individual children with SEND.
Ready to Elevate Your Early Years Provision?
With my support, we can improve your EYFS practice, raise outcomes for children, and empower your team to reach new heights. Whether you need advice, tailored training, or a comprehensive review, I’m here to help.
Early Years Training
I offer the following training courses to support your team in improving EYFS standards across your setting.
Phonics Teaching
Learn effective strategies to ensure all learners make significant progress in both learning to read and reading to learn, fostering a love for literacy.
Quality of Teaching & Learning
Discover what makes an outstanding EYFS setting, and gain practical tools for assessing and improving the quality of teaching and learning across your environment.
Independent Learners
Explore how to cultivate a love of learning in every child, encouraging independent thinking and problem-solving through engaging, child-led activities.
Emotional Well-being
Use Internal Family Systems (IFS) to support emotional well-being in both adults and children, helping them face challenges with courage, clarity, and resilience.
“I would have no hesitation in recommending Zoe to support and improve any school’s EYFS setting. – Bill Thompson – Independent SIA”
Zoe Kennell is an outstanding EYFS practitioner. Having led such a setting for many years, and being graded at outstanding in her last Ofsted she is well placed to advise and support any school in how such a setting is to be organised and developed. She strongly believes that communication and language are fundamental to every aspect of young child’s thinking and learning.
Her practice exemplifies how high quality interactions between children and adults can enhance a child’s rate of development no matter what their background. She strongly believes that it is the quality of the interactions rather than the quantity that makes the most difference.
The CPD she provides has always been highly effective. Her approach is epistemic, which makes teachers think about what they’re doing before giving them the why to try again. Experimentation without fear in a highly supportive coaching role is her strength.
Zoe can also provide expert advice for leadership teams to ensure that the EYFS setting meets with all safeguarding requirements and procedures whilst the curriculum is engineered to be ambitious.
Recent Posts
Research Papers by Zoe Kennell
The application of somatic practices into the praxis of being a teacher educator: how can I take better care of myself?
This paper presents the findings of an action research project which makes my embodied knowledge explicit in order to contribute to the growing interest in somatic practices and their application to the wider field of teaching and learning. This paper proposes that in order to increase wellbeing within the work environment, the factors which enhance and improve the health of educators must be understood and researched. As somatic practices study direct bodily experience as a source of knowledge, they offer the field of education the opportunity to reposition the body as central to this enquiry. By broadening the concept of wellbeing to encompass the subjective experiences of educators, somatic practices of self-care are evaluated. Evidence of improved wellbeing can then be fed back in to the professional field of education for the self-improvement of educators. Thus the research further aims to make a wider contribution to the field of education and the relatively new and not-yet-mainstream field of somatics.
Get in Touch
Whether you’re looking for advice, support, or training, I’m excited to hear how I can assist you. Use the form below to get in touch, and I’ll respond promptly to arrange a free consultation or answer any questions you may have. Together, we can take the first step toward enhancing your Early Years provision and improving outcomes for children.
Feel free to share some details about your current setting or any specific areas you’d like support with. I look forward to connecting with you!
