supervision at her setting.
According to Eileen Gamble, this is training with a difference. 'I've done e-learning before but nothing like this,' she says.
She and her daughter Kirsty, one of two daughters with whom she runs Fairplay Day Nursery in Bradford, were among the first to undertake Sue Overton's Applied Practice (SOAP) training programme, which is designed to support managers and supervisors through the introduction and development of staff supervisions.
It uses 'drama-based learning' in the form of a soap opera set around a small day nursery called Snuggles. Course participants follow an online tutorial programme divided into five modules, which are based on video clips. This is then followed with a lively training session with Ms Overton.
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