EARLY CHILDHOOD- Nutrition for infants and young children

The training provides the following professional skills:

- Knowing the needs in terms of nutrition/feeding of infants and young children

- Setting up favourable conditions for infants and young children to feed themselves as well as possible

- Mastering hygiene and safety rules in relation to feeding in collective structures

- Making simple preparations

- Preparing the service of meals and snacks

- Storing, preparing and preserving foodstuffs.

Food requirements of infants and children

- Nutritional requirements of children and recommended nutrient intakes

- Nutritional sources: foods

- Evolution of the diet through the introduction of new foods

- Characteristics of the digestive system of infants and young children

- Children's diets

- Knowledge of the different infant milks and dietary diversification

Rules of hygiene and safety

- Rules for preparing and preserving feeding bottles and meals

- Cleaning and sterilising equipment

- Choice and use of preservation equipment

- Preparation of fruit and vegetables

- Use of preserved foodstuffs

- Different types of cooking

- Choice and use of storage and rethermalization equipment

- Rethermalization, suitable equipment and compliance with procedures

- Food contamination

Place of food in child development

- Child nutrition education

- Favourable conditions for taking bottles and meals

- Stimulating children to develop their tastes and potential.

• Statement of skills and/or competencies

• All audiences

Be in professional contact with infants or young children

10 people

• Fully classroom-based training

• Group lessons

• Equipped technical platforms
• Room equipped with networked computer workstations
• Unmarked room with video projector

Positioning upstream of training entry.

EN-certified teachers, trainers with 3 years' higher education qualifications and significant experience in adult education, professional trainers in the early childhood sector

In-course evaluations (ICE)

Access for people with disabilities

Transport

Métro line 2: Bougainville
Bus N° B2 : La viste
On foot 2 min