🌟Brilliant Baby Rooms 7-Month Programme

A 7-month implementation programme for nursery managers and baby room leads For nurseries that want Brilliant Baby Rooms that stay brilliant!

Built around the EYFS, Ofsted’s Best Start in Life priorities, and the science of the first 1,000 days.

I get it! You’ve got a baby room to lead and high expectations to meet. You want your team to deliver real learning, rather than just care.

And I bet a lot of that is already happening. I bet there are moments in your baby room every day that are absolutely brilliant.

The hard bit is making them happen on purpose. Every day. With every baby. Whoever's on duty.

Because we've never really agreed what quality looks like in a baby room, have we? If we're asked about a preschool room and it's easy, curriculum, next steps, school readiness, job done!

Ask about what quality in the baby room looks like and it probably goes quiet. Because, when there's no shared language and no agreed standard, we all fall back on habit, and routine, and whatever the last person did.

It's not anybody's fault. It's just never been built.

You know it doesn't have to be this way, and with the right structure and support it won't be!

🌟What's Brilliant Baby Rooms?

A 7-month, step-by-step leadership programme for nursery managers and baby room leads to build a baby room that is:

• Consistent and confident, even when you're not watching

• Aligned with the EYFS and Best Start in Life

• Grounded in the science of the first 1,000 days

• Shaped by real planning and intentional practice

• Clear to parents, inspectors, and your own team

This is the practical pathway to build a baby room that works every day, not just when you're in it!

🤱Who It's For?

• Nursery Managers and Baby Room Leads

• Nurseries using (or about to use) the Oliiki app

• Teams ready to move from firefighting to brain-building

• Settings who want confidence, quality, and sustainability not just a tidy Tuff Tray

• Leaders who want lasting quality rather than another course certificate!

At a glance what you get

• 🌟6x monthly leadership training sessions and 1x refection and planning session - Clear, practical, and inspiring sessions led by Clare Stead, founder of Oliiki and expert in the first 1,000 days

• 🌟24x weekly action steps. Small, strategic tasks to implement and embed what you learn each month

• 🌟Fully Guided Master Trainer Workbooks - Designed for nursery leaders to take back and lead their team through every step

• 🌟EYFS- aligned CPD tools Mapped to EYFS, Development Matters, KSBs for Level 3/5, and Ofsted EIF

• 🌟Oliiki Planning & Integration System
  From daily 10-minute developmental activities to Baby Brain Boards, you’ll build developmental practice, not just download an app

• 🌟Room Audit & Curriculum Reflection Frameworks
  Spot your gaps, track your improvements, and build confidence in your practice

• 🌟Parent Engagement Strategy
  Link home and setting, handovers and learning, using the Oliiki app and simple conversation starters

• 🌟Small group support directly from Clare

  Direct input, feedback, and strategy support in a close-knit learning group

" Before, I used words like "busy, tiering and complicated" to describe my baby room. I now use the words, "Calm and connected, with a real sense of team, trust and leadership"

- Jessica Jesters Nursery Group

🧭How it works: Seven Tiny Quests

We work through seven quests that build a complete baby room system:

1. Leading a Culture of Emotional Safety
Build the emotional climate babies need to feel safe and ready to learn.

2. Starting Strong
Get your joining, settling-in, and early relationships right from the start.

3. Raising the Quality of Adult–Baby Interactions
How real-time interactions build the brain, and how to coach your team to do it.

4. Creating a Room That Teaches
Design your environment, routines, and continuous provision with actual developmental purpose.

5. Including Every Baby, Every Day
Support babies with emerging or identified needs and work confidently with families.

6. Leading for Consistency and Confidence
Build the habits and routines so your room stays strong every day, whether you're there or not.

7. Reflect and Share
Reflect on your journey, share your learning, plan for the next steps. Brilliant Baby Rooms are on a cycle of development and now you have the pathway.

These seven quests give you a clear path from start to finish.

🎓What you’ll learn

We’ll go straight to what matters, how your baby room works day to day, and how to make it better, without feeling overwhelmed.

You’ll learn how to:

• Define and lead a clear baby room culture grounded in research and values

• Turn daily care into real learning opportunities

• Embed Oliiki as your daily developmental planning tool

• Use language that links routines to curriculum and brain development

• Confidently evidence your impact to parents, visitors, and others

• Create consistency even when staff change

• Help your team understand why what they do matters

• Build your confidence as a leader

• Create team habits that stick even when no one is watching!

🌱What you'll see after 7 months

• A curriculum that grows from babies' interests and needs

• Confident staff who understand the science behind what they're doing

• Planning that's simple, responsive, and actually works

• A room culture built on emotional safety and developmental intent

• Parent partnerships that start at the first look around

• A room you'd walk anyone through, an inspector, a parent, doesn't matter

• A foundation that survives when apprentices join or staff leave

• A room you can't wait to show people around!

⏳Why Now?

New 9-month funding. Stronger scrutiny. A clear focus on under-2s. Your baby room matters more than ever..

Oliiki's Building Babies Brains Programme gives you the "what" and the "why."
Brilliant Baby Rooms gives you the "how."

This is the training that transforms talk into practice and developmental science into practice that works. And it does it with your whole strategic leadership team working together.

One week at a time.

One change at a time.

With support all the way.

“Having Oliiki has been the biggest impact in informing practice. - Samantha Little Treacle's Nursery

The Investment

Full Price: £2500 per setting

(Price is per EY number)

That includes:

• Training for both your nursery manager and baby room lead and your nursery owner

• All seven Tiny Quests

• All the tools, templates, and updates

• Live online sessions, in small groups online

👥Running multiple settings? Ask me about multi-site licences.

How to Join

📢 New cohorts start 1st September 26.📢

🌟I keep it to 15 places per cohort so I can actually support you properly.🌟

£500 to secure settings place.
The balance of £2,000 is invoiced and payable before the programme starts.

Prefer to spread it? Ask me about instalments - heaps of settings do.

Questions first? Email me: clare@oliiki.com

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