Introducing woodwork to your setting

We’re delighted to be offering this ever-popular one-day course from Pete Moorhouse, as a face-to-face course taking place in the outstanding Rowland Hill Nursery School in Haringey.

Introducing woodwork to your early years provision (20 June 2024, London)

Join Pete Moorhouse for this practical full-day course, focused on woodwork in the early years.

Over the course of the day, delegates will have opportunities to:

learn how to introduce tools and set up a woodworking area
learn about health and safety issues and risk assessments
get information on where you need to go to source the necessary tools and resources
gain an insight into the historical context and current thinking
learn about the learning and development associated with woodwork in relation to the EYFS
get hands on experience to gain confidence working with tools
gain insights into examples of longer term woodworking projects

This course is open to anyone, although will be most relevant to those with an interest in introducing woodwork into their early years or KS1 provision, or for those looking to enhance the woodworking opportunities they currently offer.
For one delegate: £125 for Members; £150 for Non-Members (early bird rate available until 10th May 2024, prices then increase by £25 per place).

Click here to book and more info

Play Scotland have released a new podcast all about woodwork:

The woodworking podcast is now live on our website – it can be found at

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/31-woodworking–59178283

The Playwell Podcast Ep 31: Woodworking (youtube.com)

Pete Moorhouse is an early years creative consultant, researcher, author and artist educator based in the UK. He is an associate trainer for Early Education delivering training nationally and overseas and is also a Froebel Tutor for the Froebel Trust. His work in school is centred around nurturing children’s creativity inspired by Froebelian principles and the approach in Reggio Emilia. Pete is a leading authority on woodwork in Early Years education and has written several books and journal articles, including ‘Learning Through Woodwork’ (Routledge) as well as books on outdoor learning. He is currently working on his latest book – ‘Creativity in Practice: Nurturing creative and critical thinking in early childhood education’. He was awarded an honorary research fellowship from the University of Bristol and is currently researching creative progression in early education. Pete was also awarded a Churchill Fellowship to undertake international research into best woodworking practices in education. Pete won the national award (2019) from the Creative Learning Guild for his work promoting creativity in education and is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Yvonne Young is an Early Years Officer with West Lothian Council. Her ‘Wonderful woodworking’ journey began three years ago whilst completing the Froebel in Childhood Practice course with the University of Edinburgh, sparking her interest in play through a Froebelian lens. Her project has since sparked an initiative linking West Lothian College and West Lothian STEM to offer woodworking opportunities within primary one classes, with 50 teachers embracing this. After completing CPD training with Pete Moorhouse, he awarded her the first-ever Big Bang Woodwork Award last April to celebrate her achievements in embedding woodworking across her previous ElC and School community. She continues to promote the idea that every day can be a wonderful woodworking day!

Catch up with Yvonne, Pete and Fiona in this latest episode.