In this Early Years Spotlight, we’re looking at resources around potty training. There are 40 different skills a child needs to pull together to become potty trained – and a consistent approach between home and setting makes all the difference. Explore policy templates, practical guides, top tips, and support for children with additional needs.
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Stronger Practice Hubs from across England have pooled their summer offer into one programme. More than twenty fully-funded online sessions running from late July to the end of August, covering babies, communication and language, maths, SEND, nutrition, leadership and childminding. Open to all early years practitioners and childminders.
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Reflective Practice Lead and DSL Leila Garau Taylor explores what the updated EYFS safeguarding requirements around privacy during intimate care mean in practice, reflecting on how we can balance children’s dignity and feelings with safeguarding, and how everyday routines teach children about consent, body autonomy and respectful relationships.
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Childminder and former primary teacher Liz Willcox explores what genuine partnership with parents looks like beyond the settling-in period, sharing practical insights on building trust, navigating harder conversations, engaging families who may find it difficult to connect, and making communication truly two-way.
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In this recorded session, Catherine Jeans joins our SEND Network to explore sensory food challenges and restrictive eating, from understanding ARFID and what else might be going on for restrictive eaters to practical strategies like graduated exposure and food chaining that help broaden children’s diets gently, without pressure or judgement.
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In this recorded session, Sarah Clarke joins our Talking About… Babies Network to explore the vital role of attachment in early development, sharing practical strategies for supporting secure attachments with babies and creating emotionally responsive environments that nurture the strong, trusting relationships which underpin lifelong health and development.
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In this staff meeting template, explore the Characteristics of Effective Learning through four practical activities, including an obstacle course, video, group reflection and learning walk. Designed to fit into 45 minutes, it supports your team to reflect on how your environment and interactions nurture children’s curiosity, engagement and resilience.
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In this case study, Amber, a teacher from St Pauls Nursery School in Bristol, shares how the Emotion Coaching CPD programme transformed her practice, helping her support children’s emotional regulation and resilience, strengthen family partnerships, and shift her whole team’s approach to children’s feelings.
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In this case study, Amy Marsh, Head of Nurseries and Preschools at The Priory Learning Trust, shares her experience attending the Sensory Processing Immersion Morning at Springboard Opportunity Group, and how it shifted her thinking from managing children’s behaviour to understanding the biology behind it.
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