Talking With Babies

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

This session will explore how we can talk with babies to help them become confident communicators and develop respectful relationships that enable them to make genuine choices. We will consider how mindful care routines might support communication and language, the power of nonverbal communication, and learning the ‘conversational dance’.

Quality Interactions for Early Years Settings/Schools

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

This session will explore the basics of effective, authentic and meaningful interactions with children in the EYs. We will cover what makes for quality interactions: the way we use our body and voice, how we listen, pause, and reflect on children’s learning with them. How we can deepen their thinking, provoke new learning and delight in the children’s fascinations.

Authentic, Ambitious and Values-Based Leadership

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

This session will offer you the opportunity to consider your beliefs, values and ambitions for leadership within the context of leadership theories and frameworks, and particularly through times of change. We will encourage you to reflect on what you yourself bring to the team, and support you to consider ways in which you can empower your team members both collectively and individually, to build resilient and sustainable distributed leadership.

Quality Interactions for Early Years Childminders and Settings

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

This session will explore the basics of effective, authentic, meaningful interactions with children in the early years. We will cover what makes for quality interactions: the way we use our body and voice, how we listen, pause, and reflect on children’s learning with them, how we can deepen their thinking, provoke new learning, and delight in the children’s fascinations.

Exploring an Early Years Curriculum: Open Study Day at St Pauls Nursery

St. Pauls Nursery School and Children’s Centre Little Bishop Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

Stronger Practice Hub Event

Come and join our team and be part of a reflective conversation about Curriculum. Together, we will hear about the St Pauls' Curriculum journey, see how it promotes our values and pedagogy, understand how it reflects the interests and special characteristics of our children and families and reflect on how it is integrated into observation, assessment and planning.

PSED Network: Emotion Coaching (Term 6)

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

This online session will help you support children and young people in understanding the different emotions they experience, why they occur, and how to handle them. We will consider Emotion Coaching as a strategy for supporting children’s behaviour and self-regulation and highlight research that demonstrates the value of an emotion coaching approach. There will be opportunities to explore the tools to practice emotion coaching with children.

SPH Introduction Session – What Can the SPH Do for Your Setting?

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

The Bristol & Beyond Early Years Stronger Practice Hub has been running for a couple of years now, yet many early years practitioners and managers, childminders, and teachers still don't know about us and what we can offer you. This introduction session will allow you to meet our SPH lead, Lucy Driver, and other network leads, hear more about the Hub and what is going on in your area and share your voice and needs so that we can tailor our support for you.

SPH Introduction Session – What Can the SPH Do for Your Setting?

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

The Bristol & Beyond Early Years Stronger Practice Hub has been running for a couple of years now, yet many early years practitioners and managers, childminders, and teachers still don't know about us and what we can offer you. This introduction session will allow you to meet our SPH lead, Lucy Driver, and other network leads, hear more about the Hub and what is going on in your area and share your voice and needs so that we can tailor our support for you.

Brilliance of Block Play

St. Pauls Nursery School and Children’s Centre Little Bishop Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

Stronger Practice Hub Event

Block Play is a fundamental and integral part of early childhood education. So open-ended and full of endless possibilities! This will be a first-hand, hands-on, experiential session with opportunities to playfully explore Block Play.

Building Eco-Empathy in the Early Years With Millie Colwey

St. Pauls Nursery School and Children’s Centre Little Bishop Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

Stronger Practice Hub Event

Are you a bit daunted by the DFE's Sustainability Strategy? Are you not sure where to start with developing a Climate Action Plan for your setting? As you move forward with this, it is very important to understand the need for it and to do it in a way that is appropriate for the early years, so that we build eco-empathy not eco-anxiety. This research-informed session will link with DFE guidance and the need for settings to develop Climate Action Plans. It will also help participants make links between sustainability and children's learning and development.

Physical Development – The 8 Sensory Systems With Helen Battelley

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

On this webinar, we’ll go beyond the five senses we’re all familiar with and dive into all eight sensory systems—including proprioception, vestibular, and interoception—and explore how they influence a child’s physical development, behaviour, and ability to engage with the world around them.

Courageous Conversations – Leadership

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

We all sometimes get stuck when we need to say some hard things to people. This session will provide you with the opportunities to explore what might be stopping you from doing this, consider different ways of approaching and leading the conversation, and provide space to practice them. You will be offered a variety of strategies from which you can apply your new learning to that next tricky conversation you need to have.

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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.

🌿NEW BLOG: Sowing Seeds for the Future - Education for Sustainability for Childminders and Early Years Settings by Millie Colwey
📢 New Blog Post: The Magic of Emerging Literacy in the Early Years by Ali Carrington