Leading a Setting to Success, With Your Team and Community: Open Study Day at Hartcliffe Nursery School
March 6 @ 8:00 am - 4:00 pm GMT
Free
Stronger Practice Hub Event
Hartcliffe Nursery School went into special measures in June 2022 and emerged in October 2024 with a judgement of good. In a deprived area of Bristol, it was struggling with various challenges, and staff morale was at rock bottom. It is now thriving, and staff are empowered and confident.
This Open Study Day will take you on our inspirational improvement journey. With vision and values at its core, we will discuss how we built the foundations for improvement and success with the existing team and the community.
We will:
- Describe our context, the challenges we faced and the importance of considering the community
- Reflect on the importance of having a shared vision and values and clarity of roles and responsibilities
- Explore ways that you can empower and enable teams to be motivated, confident and understand why we are doing things
- How, from setting priorities, you build next steps, work out the detail and actions, and monitor and evaluate collaboratively
- Consider frameworks and systems that hold people, and make things sustainable and accountable
- Look at the use of models to support implementation and quality improvement (e.g. EEF ‘Implementation model’, and David Cooper Ryder’s ‘Appreciative Enquiry Model’)
- Explore the how crucial supervision and performance management is, and how this is done in an empowering way
- Finally, we will look at how you can own your Ofsted inspection through strong knowledge of the EYFS framework and the confidence in what you have implemented.
The Open Study Day will consist of learning walks and observation time to see the room set-ups and routines, time with the leaders and SENDCo to understand some of the changes and curriculum, and time with Cate Peel, the Head of Hartcliffe Nursery.
This is for Heads or Managers of Early Years settings or Nursery Schools. We may have to prioritise those from deprived areas. It will be strictly one person per setting as we expect this to be popular. Should it become sold out, we will operate a Reserve List; please email sph@beyth.co.uk to join this list.
Outline for the day (More details to follow)
Arrival: 8:00am
Finish: 4:00pm
Refreshments will be available, but please bring your own lunch.
This training is for early years practitioners and leaders working in settings or childminders in our Stronger Practice Hub area (Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, Wiltshire, Somerset, North Somerset, Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire). We will also prioritise settings and childminders in areas of deprivation.
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Parking
St. Pauls Children’s Centre: There is no on-site parking but parking is available on the road for £1 an hour for a maximum of 3 hours, or in Cabot Circus which is 5-minute walk from the St. Pauls Children’s Centre.
