Case Study – Musical Creativity in the Baby Room
Lauren Wilcox is the Baby Room Leader at The Learning Tree Nursery, Chilcompton, Somerset. Lauren...
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by Ali | Sep 29, 2025 | Case Studies, Featured News to Spotlight | 0 |
Lauren Wilcox is the Baby Room Leader at The Learning Tree Nursery, Chilcompton, Somerset. Lauren...
Read Moreby Ali | Sep 18, 2025 | Featured News to Spotlight, Mini INSET and Staff Room Sessions | 0 |
This comprehensive 45-minute staff meeting template guides early years practitioners through understanding and implementing joyful pedagogy in their setting. The resource explores how joy differs from simple enjoyment, examining it as a deeper, lasting state of wellbeing that benefits both children and educators. Teams work through practical activities including sharing personal experiences of joy, identifying recent joyful moments with children, and mapping barriers and bridges to joy in their provision. The template emphasises how joy is expressed differently across cultures and encourages practitioners to recognise diverse forms of joyful expression. With reference to research showing that engaging in joyful play reduces educator stress whilst enhancing wellbeing, this resource includes follow-up activities, supervision prompts, and suggestions for creating ongoing celebrations of joy. The template empowers settings to prioritise authentic, culturally responsive joyful experiences that foster children’s relationships, self-determination, and positive social-emotional development.
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Are you ready to transform your understanding of how children learn and develop? Join Helen Battelley in this comprehensive 2-hour webinar that goes far beyond the traditional five senses to explore ALL eight sensory systems that shape early childhood development.
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Our 2025-2026 CPD Programme is Now Available We are delighted to announce that our 2025-2026 CPD...
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This blog explores the updated Early Years Nutrition Guidance, the changes it brings, and why it matters now more than ever—particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. With rising food insecurity and increased marketing of ultra-processed foods, the early years sector has a vital role to play in shaping healthy eating habits from the very start. Clearer guidance offers a much-needed opportunity to align practice across all settings and support families with consistent, realistic, and affordable messages around food. As nutrition becomes a statutory part of the EYFS safeguarding and welfare requirements from September 2025, this blog highlights how settings can respond, adapt, and lead the way.
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We’re excited to introduce our lead Early Years setting for the Bristol & Beyond...
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As the impacts of climate change become increasingly visible, the work of building sustainable futures for the youngest generations has never been more urgent. Millie Colwey explains how childminders and early years settings play a pivotal role in fostering environmental responsibility and sustainable behaviours in children. This blog explores the importance of education for sustainability, practical steps you can take, and how our sector can lead the way to creating a greener, safer future for young children. Through simple changes to their environments, such as using scrap stores for resources and choosing ethical banking, settings themselves can become more sustainable. Meanwhile, activities like outdoor nature exploration and food growing help develop children’s understanding of the world while teaching them they can make a real difference to our environment.
Read Moreby Ali | Mar 21, 2025 | Featured News to Spotlight, Mini INSET and Staff Room Sessions | 0 |
This comprehensive staff meeting template provides early years educators a structured approach to understanding and supporting schemas in children’s play and development. Over the course of one hour, the resource guides teams through exploring schemas – repeated patterns of behaviour that help children develop cognitive connections and understand the world in their unique way. The template includes practical exercises for identifying schemas in children’s play, discussing real observations or scenario-based examples, and auditing the learning environment. With reference materials including a detailed schema types table, discussion scenarios, and an environment audit tool, this resource helps practitioners build confidence in recognising and extending children’s natural learning patterns. The template empowers settings to tailor their practice to children’s intrinsic interests, support deeper engagement, and create more inclusive environments where all children’s ways of learning are valued.
Read Moreby Ali | Mar 21, 2025 | Featured News to Spotlight, News, SPH Blog | 0 |
For too long, compliance has been the only goal for children with developmental differences in education and society. In this blog post by Jenna Jefferies, she explores how teaching self-advocacy skills to neurodivergent and disabled children can empower them to communicate their needs and stand up for themselves. By presuming competence, explicitly teaching self-advocacy in early years settings, and creating spaces where children feel validated, educators can help shift societal attitudes from deficit-focused to celebratory-driven. Learn practical strategies for supporting children’s self-advocacy that will raise a generation confident in getting their needs met and create a more inclusive society that values neurodiversity.
Read Moreby Ali | Mar 14, 2025 | Early Years Recommendations, Featured News to Spotlight, News, Useful CL&L Resources | 0 |
The Early Years Book Club, a collaborative initiative in Bristol, invites early years practitioners to enhance their knowledge of children’s literature. Monthly themes foster dialogue and resources, such as books focused on feelings and race equality. The club promotes community and celebrates reading, offering valuable tools for enriching children’s learning experiences.
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