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Bristol & Beyond Stronger Practice Hub

Bristol & Beyond Early Years Hub (formerly The Bristol Early Years Teaching Hub) is a hub for professionals in Early Years settings and Primary Schools, who wish to collaborate, challenge and innovate to improve provision, leadership and achievement in the Early Years Foundation Stage.

Our Hub has a significant role in supporting quality improvement across Bristol and beyond. Through our strategic alliance with the LA, we play a central role in quality assurance, self-evaluation, professional development and school/setting improvement for the whole EYs sector. This includes all reception classes in Primary Schools, Nursery Schools, Nursery classes, private voluntary and independent nurseries and childminders.

Bristol & Beyond Early Years Hub has a long-standing track record of leading and delivering high-quality support and professional development that has a measurable and sustainable impact.

As our reputation has grown for delivering expert CPLD, we now offer an annual training programme and bespoke packages for EYs settings and schools both nationally and internationally.

Originally designated and established as a National Teaching School in 2012, our EYs Hub is led by St Pauls Nursery School and Children’s Centre, an ‘Outstanding’ provider, and we work in collaboration with the Bristol Local Authority EYs team, other Bristol Nursery Schools, Pen Green and the 5 Counties Teaching Hub.

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  • Inspiring Provision for Babies

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

    Stronger Practice Hub Event

    This session will explore inspiring provision for babies in an early years setting. We will explore the influence of educators' visions and values on provision for babies and what real noticing looks like as a leader of a baby room. We will consider what builds to inspiring planning for babies’ learning, including reflecting upon possibility planning, building on previous experiences and building on babies' funds of knowledge. The session will explore elements of provision such as creativity, being under the sky, environments, digging deeper into treasure baskets, sensory exploration, risk and challenge, and exploring food.

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  • Talking About… Babies’ Co- and Self-regulation With Dr Gemma Goldenberg

    Online Course
    Virtual Event

    Stronger Practice Hub Event

    A discussion on how practitioners can nurture co-regulation and support babies in developing the foundations for self-regulation through responsive, attuned care. Talking About... is a series of informal, one-hour online networking sessions designed for early years practitioners to come together, share experiences, and explore key topics related to babies in early years settings. Each session focuses on a different aspect of practice, providing a space for discussion, reflection, and peer support.

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  • Mathematics Professional Development Programme Pilot Information Session

    Virtual Event

    Stronger Practice Hub Event

    Come and find out more about the Maths PDP programme, what it entails and how it will help you to develop your early years maths practice. Sue Gifford, one of the content leads for this programme and a previous SPH speaker, will be joining Cate Peel, our SPH Maths lead. They will outline the programme, and it is also a chance to ask them questions about this evidence-based programme, funded by the DFE.

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  • Music in the Early Years – for Childminders

    Online Course
    Virtual Event

    Stronger Practice Hub Event

    This friendly, practical session is designed especially for you, recognising that you’re already playing a powerful role in your children’s musical journeys and supporting you as you develop your practice. Together, we’ll explore the theories behind the instincts you use every day, helping you deepen your understanding of why music matters and giving you new ideas to make the most of those everyday musical moments.

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  • Trauma Informed Practice Immersion Session at Knowle West Nursery School TIP Hub

    Knowle West Nursery School Leinster Avenue, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Stronger Practice Hub Event

    Knowle West Nursery School invites you to come along and find out about trauma-informed practices and how they are embedded into their pedagogy. Hear about how they have developed a relationship-led curriculum and whole school culture of safety and belonging. You will have the opportunity to meet with the Trauma Informed Practice Leads and spend time in the classrooms observing practice and provision. There will be time to reflect and ask questions.

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  • Physical Development – Gross Motor Skills to PE With Helen Battelley

    Online Course
    Virtual Event

    Stronger Practice Hub Event

    As early years educators, we are at the forefront of building strong physical foundations that support not just movement, but confidence, coordination, and a lifelong love of being active. In this session, we’ll explore how early physical development naturally progresses into more structured physical education, supporting fundamental movement skills. We’ll look at key movement milestones, developmental readiness, and how to create purposeful movement transitions from play-based physical activity to more formal PE in the early years and beyond.

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  • Back to Basics: Learning Through a Continuous Provision Approach

    Online Course
    Virtual Event

    Stronger Practice Hub Event

    Play is a process that enables all children to make sense of the world they inhabit and supports all areas of learning and development in the earliest years. Continuous Provision is an effective approach that provides the context and teaching strategies for playful learning to occur in a differentiated manner. Come and find out more about the research that underpins the approach and explore ways to make it work effectively for the children in your setting. We will consider how enabling learning environments, both inside and out, can deepen children's thinking, skills, and knowledge, and we will explore the role of the educator as an effective play partner alongside.

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  • CPD Programme: Using Evidence to Strengthen Your Early Years Leadership

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

    Stronger Practice Hub Event

    The Bristol and Beyond SPH is collaborating with the Somerset Research School to deliver this leadership programme. It is a three-part training programme for Headteachers, EYFS Leads, Nursery/PreSchool Managers, Room Leaders, and EYFS Teachers. The programme aims to enable those leading in the early years to become closer to the growing body of educational research evidence and use it to make decisions about the ‘best bets’ for their school or setting.

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  • Ofsted Education Inspection Framework Briefing

    Virtual Event

    Stronger Practice Hub Event

    Join us for a briefing for early years providers, focusing on the revised Education Inspection Framework (EIF) and how these apply to childminders and early years settings.

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  • Ofsted Education Inspection Framework Briefing

    Virtual Event

    Stronger Practice Hub Event

    Join us for a briefing for early years providers, focusing on the revised Education Inspection Framework (EIF) and how these apply to childminders and early years settings.

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  • Unpicking the STAIRS Approach: Communication, Language and Literacy Network

    Online Course
    Virtual Event

    Stronger Practice Hub Event

    Come and find out more about the STAIRS approach that provides educators a memorable and straightforward set of strategies to embed research evidence about scaffolding into everyday practice. It employs the ‘Goldilocks principle’: not too much and not too little, enabling educators to provide a level of challenge for children that is ‘just right’.

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  • CBeebies Parenting Resources Information Session

    Online Course
    Virtual Event

    Stronger Practice Hub Event

    In partnership, The Bristol and Beyond Early Years Stronger Practice Hub and The Early Years South West Stronger Practice Hub welcome you to a session to explore the new-look CBeebies Parenting. We’re inviting professionals to a free, practical 30 min session designed especially for those working with families. CBeebies Parenting is a completely free resource created by the BBC, offering over 1,300 videos and articles full of expert advice, trusted content, and simple, fun activities to help boost children’s speech, language and communication – while also supporting parents and carers with everyday challenges like routines, potty training, emotional development and school readiness.

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