Focus & Features: This full-colour, interactive wheel is built around the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework to support the statutory two-year-old progress review​. One side outlines eight key developmental aspects spanning the three prime areas of learning (personal, communication, physical) – highlighting typical abilities at age two​. The reverse side provides practical suggestions for adults to support each area of learning in toddlers (24–36 months)​. Uniquely, a ninth section covers additional topics often included in an integrated 2-year review (such as health considerations) to ensure a holistic approach​. The durable one-piece wheel (~230 mm diameter) twists to the needed section and is written by experienced early years practitioners, making it easy to carry and simple for both professionals and parents to use.

Early Intervention Benefits: Aligned with EYFS milestones, this tool helps practitioners quickly gauge if a two-year-old’s development is on track, enabling early identification of any delays or concerns​. By sharing the wheel with families, it doubles as a parent-friendly guide, fostering collaboration before and during the 2-year progress check​. Parents gain insight into what to expect and how to help at home, which means any emerging gaps in skills can be addressed through supportive play and activities sooner rather than later. Covering health and developmental aspects together also promotes a joined-up early intervention approach, ensuring no area of a child’s progress is overlooked during this pivotal review.

Focus & Features: This easy-to-use wheel provides an at-a-glance guide to child development from birth up to five years​. Split into nine age sections (from 0–3 months through to 4–5 years), it highlights key things children might be doing at each stage and lists ways the family can help foster those skills​. One side details typical milestones and behaviours, along with simple activities or support that parents/carers can offer for each age range​. The reverse side focuses on keeping the child safe and healthy at each stage of development, offering practical tips on safety and wellbeing from infancy to preschool​. Originally developed alongside the Development & Learning Journey resource for practitioners​, this full-colour wheel stands on its own as a convenient alternative. It was created in collaboration with early years teams and advisors, and its content is written by experienced practitioners to ensure relevance. At ~230 mm diameter, it’s compact and sturdy, designed for portability and frequent use by parents, carers, students and early years professionals alike​.

Early Intervention Benefits: By clearly outlining expected developmental achievements at each age, the Birth-to-Five wheel enables early years practitioners and families to quickly spot any delays or areas where a child may need extra support​. It empowers parents with knowledge about what is normal for each stage, reducing anxiety and helping them engage in age-appropriate activities that encourage progress. The suggested activities for each age group promote responsive parenting – parents and carers are given concrete ideas to stimulate learning and development, which can prevent minor delays from widening. Additionally, the health and safety guidance ensures that as children grow, caregivers proactively create a safe, supportive environment, addressing issues (like nutrition, sleep, or safety) early on. In professional settings, this tool supports conversations with parents by providing a common understanding of child development, thereby fostering earlier and more effective intervention strategies when needed.

Focus & Features: This Development Wheel™ focuses on universal inclusion strategies for the early years​. It is a brightly coloured, double-sided wheel that twists to reveal practical tips and techniques to ensure all children are included and supported, both in early years settings and at home​. The wheel is divided into sections addressing common everyday challenges – such as establishing helpful routines, understanding emotions and feelings, encouraging positive behaviour, and building independence through choices​. One side concentrates on strategies within the early years environment (covering aspects like adapting resources and the physical environment), while the flip side suggests what families can do at home to mirror these inclusive practices​. All advice aligns with developing core skills in the prime areas of learning (communication and language, physical development, personal social-emotional development)​. Like others in the series, this one-piece wheel is about 230 mm across and was written by early years professionals, ensuring the guidance is relevant and easy to apply for both educators and parents​.

Early Intervention Benefits: The Inclusion Development Wheel equips practitioners and parents to address potential barriers to learning before they escalate, by providing simple strategies to include every child in daily activities. By having ready solutions for issues like routine difficulties or behavioural challenges, educators can intervene early to adjust the environment or approach, preventing children from feeling excluded or falling behind their peers. The parallel home-and-setting sections promote consistency – when children experience similar supportive techniques in the classroom and at home, positive behaviours and skills are reinforced more effectively​. This consistency is especially beneficial for children with additional needs or emerging difficulties, as it creates a stable, understanding framework around the child. Overall, the wheel’s focus on the prime areas means foundational skills (like communication or emotional regulation) are strengthened early on​, which is key to more inclusive and successful learning experiences as the child grows. Importantly, the practical nature of the tips boosts confidence in both new practitioners and parents, encouraging them to take proactive steps to support all children, thereby embedding early intervention into everyday practice.

Focus & Features: This handy speech and language development wheel is a guide to early communication skills, designed for parents, carers, and practitioners working with children from birth to five​. Developed originally as part of the National Year of Speech and Communication by NHS specialists and early years teams​, it presents trusted information in an accessible format. The wheel is split into nine sections, each focusing on what a child might be able to do in terms of communication at a particular age or stage​. Uniquely, the front side breaks down key aspects of speech and language development into colour-coded areas – including attention & listening, social interaction, play, understanding, and expression (talking and speech)​ – showing typical abilities in each category. The reverse side then offers guidance on “what you can do” to boost a child’s communication skills at that stage, accompanied by simple illustrations to clarify the ideas​. Like the Birth-to-Five wheel, it is easy to carry (approximately 23 cm across) and printed in full colour. All content was written by childcare practitioners to ensure it’s practical and meets the needs of both families and professionals supporting early language​.

Early Intervention Benefits: Strong early communication skills are critical for later learning, and this wheel serves as an early intervention tool by helping adults spot and encourage those skills from the start. By comparing a child’s current abilities to the milestones on the wheel, practitioners and parents can quickly identify if speech and language development is on track or if extra support might be needed in certain areas​. The suggested activities and tips on the reverse empower caregivers to actively stimulate language – for example, through play and responsive interactions – during the crucial birth-to-five period when intervention can have the greatest impact on communication outcomes​. Because the resource was created with NHS speech specialists, the guidance aligns with evidence-based practices, giving users confidence in the strategies provided. Using the wheel in early years settings also facilitates conversations with parents about their child’s communication, ensuring that any concerns are addressed collaboratively and as early as possible. In short, this development wheel not only charts expected speech and language milestones but also equips adults with the know-how to nurture a child’s speech and language, thereby helping to prevent or mitigate delays before they affect the child’s confidence and learning.

Focus & Features: This unique resource sheds light on how a child’s brain develops from the prenatal stage through age five, in a simple interactive format​. It’s a double-sided wheel packed with insights and tips: one side illustrates key brain growth stages and facts (for example, that by age three, a child’s brain is about 90% developed)​, and the other side suggests practical ideas to help nurture brain development during each phase​. The content is arranged in nine sections, corresponding to successive age ranges from before birth to five years. Users can dial up an age range to read about what’s happening in the child’s brain at that time and flip to discover how parents and carers can best support healthy development through play, talk, love and responsive care​. Notably, this wheel also includes guidance for the adults themselves – reminding parents/carers how to look after their own wellbeing and where to seek support, recognising that a supported caregiver is vital for a child’s development​. Like all Development Wheels™, it is a convenient size (~230 mm), written by early years experts, and designed for everyday use by families and practitioners who want to encourage children’s learning and growth from the earliest days​.

Early Intervention Benefits: The Brain Development wheel emphasises the critical importance of the early years, when neural connections are forming at an astonishing rate​. By informing adults about these developmental milestones, it effectively raises awareness of why early experiences – like talking, cuddling, and playing – matter so much for a child’s future learning and behaviour. This awareness is a key component of early intervention: parents and educators who understand that “children’s brains are amazing” and rapidly growing​ are more likely to engage in positive interactions that strengthen cognitive and emotional development. The wheel’s tips for activities empower caregivers to take simple, proactive steps (such as reading aloud or encouraging sensory play) that can boost brain architecture during its most malleable period​. Additionally, by including self-care advice and support resources for adults, it acknowledges that helping children early also means ensuring caregivers have the capacity and knowledge to provide nurturing care. In practice, this tool guides early years professionals in coaching parents and anticipating areas where a child might need extra stimulation or support, thereby fostering an environment where every child’s brain can flourish from the start.

Focus & Features: This development wheel is a stand-alone reference for key terms and concepts related to Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in the early years​. Designed with busy practitioners in mind, it condenses essential jargon and definitions into a handy, double-sided format. The wheel is divided into nine sections on each side, allowing users to spin to the relevant term or topic and find a clear explanation​. It has been created for use in early years settings (including nursery schools) as a quick reminder of important SEND definitions and processes​. On the front side, the wheel highlights the role of the Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCo) and emphasises best practices such as working in partnership with parents and following the graduated approach (Assess–Plan–Do–Review) outlined in the SEND Code of Practice​. The reverse side provides concise definitions of critical concepts, including the four broad areas of need (e.g. communication and interaction, cognition and learning, etc.) and notes on legal frameworks like the Equality Act 2010​. At roughly 23 cm in diameter, this portable wheel was written by SEND professionals to ensure accuracy, and even includes pointers on additional funding sources available to early years providers for supporting children with SEND.

Early Intervention Benefits: By demystifying the complex language of SEND, this tool enables early years staff – especially new SENCos – to navigate the system more confidently and respond to children’s needs more swiftly​. Quick access to definitions means that when concerns about a child arise, practitioners can immediately clarify terms and procedures (such as “graduated approach” or categories of need) without losing time, thus streamlining the early intervention process. The emphasis on the SENCo’s role and parent partnership on the wheel reinforces best practice: engaging families and using a structured cycle of assess-plan-do-review ensures support is put in place as soon as a need is identified​. Moreover, by highlighting the importance of legal frameworks and available funding, the wheel reminds educators to leverage all resources and inclusive strategies mandated or offered, thereby improving outcomes for children who require extra help​. In essence, this SEND Terms & Definitions wheel acts as both a learning aid and a daily checklist for inclusive practice – it builds practitioners’ knowledge base, which in turn leads to earlier and more effective interventions for young children with additional needs.