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

Online Course
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.

Free

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

Online Course
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.

Free

Authentic, Ambitious and Values-Based Leadership

Online Course
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.

Free

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.

Free

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.

Free

Physical Development – The 8 Sensory Systems With Helen Battelley

Online Course
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.

Free

Courageous Conversations – Leadership

Online Course
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.

Free

Identifying and Supporting Speech, Language and Communication – July 2025

Online Course
Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

This session is for all Early Years practitioners, including Early Years settings, schools, and childminders. This online workshop will involve input about typical language development from speech and language therapists, followed by supportive discussion around strategies for support and useful resources.

Free

Tuning in to Babies

Online Course
Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

These sessions will explore educators' role in tuning in to babies, reflecting upon listening to their voice, supporting co-regulation and tuning in during the settling period. We will consider the key person's role in deeply tuning in to babies' identities, making links with babies' experiences outside of the setting. The sessions will explore the barriers to tuning in to babies’ parents and carers. The sessions will support educators in building a toolbox of strategies to tune in to babies, such as serve and return, schemas, and sensory development.

Free

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.

Free

Sleep Support for SEND Families: A Course for Early Years Professionals

Online Course
Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

This session will explore common causes of sleep difficulties and average sleep needs. It will develop your understanding of why sleep is essential for young children – how it supports physical health and boosts the immune system, helps the brain process and store daily experiences and learning, releases growth hormones, leads to better attention, behaviour, memory and emotional wellbeing. And you will learn practical tips to help you advise parents on better sleep practices for young children.

Free

Talking About Babies: Settling in to Provision

Online Course
Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

In this Talking About network session, we will explore strategies and share experiences around supporting babies as they transition into new settings, with a focus on building secure attachments and creating welcoming environments for families. Guest speaker Debbie Brace will join local specialist leaders in Birth-3s for this networking session.

Free

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