Practitioner Conversion Course
(Early Years)
This e-learning course for Thrive Licensed Practitioners supports you to transition your practice into early years settings. It deepens your understanding of development from birth to five and provides practical strategies to support babies, toddlers and young children to build emotional resilience, regulate stress and form secure foundations for learning.
Duration
2 Hours
Format
Live online training
CPD
5 CPD points
Investment
£78 + VAT
Designed for
Thrive Licensed Practitioners
early years conversion course
Overview
This course is designed for Thrive Licensed Practitioners who have completed Childhood training and are now working with babies, toddlers and young children aged 0–5.
It enables you to adapt your existing knowledge and apply Thrive effectively within early years settings.
You’ll deepen your understanding of early brain and body development, alongside the key principles that underpin emotional resilience and stress regulation. The course focuses on practical strategies, including play, creativity and relational approaches, helping you support young children to feel safe, connected and ready to learn.
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early years conversion course
Benefits
This course supports you to adapt your Thrive practice for early years settings and deepen your understanding of development from birth to five.
- Extend your Thrive practice into early years settings.
- Deepen your understanding of development from birth to five.
- Build confidence supporting babies, toddlers and young children.
- Learn practical strategies to support emotional regulation and resilience.
- Strengthen your use of Thrive-Online with younger age groups.
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Programme details
What you'll learn
You’ll explore how early development shapes emotional wellbeing and learning, alongside practical ways to support babies, toddlers and young children through Thrive.
During the course, you will:
- Understand how the brain and body develop in the first three years of life.
- Explore the concepts of right time, key times and within time.
- Learn how these principles support connection and development.
- Use cognitive strategies such as “lending your thinking brain”.
- Apply play, creativity and the arts to support emotional resilience.
- Use Thrive-Online to assess, plan and monitor development in early years.
- Develop practical strategies tailored to babies, toddlers and young children.
How the course works
- Delivered as self-paced e-learning
- Comprises 9 interactive modules covering theory and practice
- Includes activities, reflection and applied learning
- Ends with an assessment quiz (80% pass mark required)
early years conversion course
Who this course is for
This course is for Thrive Licensed Practitioners who have completed Childhood training and are now working with babies, toddlers or young children in early years settings.
It is suitable for practitioners working in private, voluntary and independent settings, as well as early years foundation stage provision.
We’ve got happy children here, there’s no doubt about that. And happy children do well. They do well socially, emotionally, and they do well educationally."
Dave Simpkins | Chair of Governors, West Exe Nursery School
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Book your conversion e-learning
Book below and you'll receive access to the e-learning on the day you choose.
Our October 2026 start dates
PA10124 - Practitioner Conversion Course – (Early Years)
Start date: 1st October 2026
End date: 12th November 2026
2 Sessions
8 Places left
£78 ex VAT
Session dates:
- Thu 1st October 2026 - 12:00am - 12:00am
- Thu 12th November 2026 - 12:00am - 12:00am
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Fees & next steps
Course fee: £78 + VATBook your place to access the e-learning modules and begin the course at a time that suits you.
Entry requirement: You must be a Thrive Licensed Practitioner, and have previously completed the Childhood Thrive Licensed Practitioner course.