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 |  | Inspiring creative work with Warwickshire's youngest pupils has been such a success that the county has won a second regional arts grant to continue the work.
Hundreds of early years teachers, playgroup workers and nursery staff from around the county have received training inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach to learning.
The Reggio Emilia pre-schools in Italy have won international respect and acclaim for their work, which focuses on giving young children 'free rein' in creative exploration and expression
The training - originally funded by a lottery grant from West Midlands Regional Arts - has resulted in some outstanding work with young children in nurseries and other pre-school groups around Warwickshire.
Now Warwickshire's Artists in Education team, which has organised the training, is celebrating a second lottery grant of 拢30,000, which will enable them to carry on spreading the Reggio word.
The grant will be matched and shared between Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull, and will pay for three professional artists to work with other artists and pre-school staff, helping them to develop the Reggio approach for themselves.
One artist will be based in each area - Warwickshire will be employing a performing artist - but each artist will work with and share good practice with the other authorities.
Vikki Holroyd, of Warwickshire's Artists in Education team, said: "The goal is to establish a model of arts-led learning in early years and to build on the practice already established.
"The benefit for children is that this isn't a 'stick and go' approach. This is about embedding the importance of creativity in learning into the philosophy and ethos and organisation of the nursery or other early years setting.
| 听 |  | A face, created by a pre-school youngster from the Stratford area
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"It's a long term approach - it's about training staff to work in the this way - and it's an approach which fits in very neatly with the government's requirements for early years learning."
Recent Reggio-inspired projects include the Creative Adventures exhibition, which featured the work of youngsters at 11 pre-school groups from the Stratford area, and a workshop with staff from 11 early years settings in the Rugby area.
An exhibition will be held soon at Leamington's Pump Rooms, featuring the work of youngsters from 15 early years groups in the Old Town area of the town.
There has also been a major exhibition in the Nuneaton area, featuring the work of groups from the Stockingford area.
It is likely that the artist employed by the new project will be based at Stockingford
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