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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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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

Introduction to Staff Supervision – Leadership

Online Course
Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

Supervision is an effective tool to support staff wellbeing, accountability and ambition in your school or setting. The Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage requires that providers must put appropriate arrangements in place for the supervision of staff who have contact with young children and families. During this session we will review understanding, policy, protocols and procedures for developing effective supervision in your EYFS setting/class teams.

Free

Identifying and Supporting Speech, Language and Communication – September 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. This session will focus on identifying speech sound difficulties and stammering in more detail, with time for discussion and sharing of resources in these areas.

Free

Early Years Nutrition for Childminders

Online Course
Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

Join us for a webinar about the new Nutritional Guidance for Early Years Settings led by Jo Ingleby, who has 20 years of early years food experience and is the Director of The Children’s Kitchen, a Feeding Bristol project.

Free

Physical Development – Super Scribers With Helen Battelley

Online Course
Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

As early years educators, we know that writing starts long before children pick up a pencil—it begins with movement, play, and the development of strong, coordinated bodies. In this session, we’ll explore how physical development lays the groundwork for mark-making and early writing. From core strength to fine motor skills, we’ll look at the building blocks that help our young learners become confident, capable scribers.

Free

Early Years Nutrition for Settings

Online Course
Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

Join us for a webinar about the new Nutritional Guidance for Early Years Settings led by Jo Ingleby, who has 20 years of early years food experience and is the Director of The Children’s Kitchen, a Feeding Bristol project.

Free

CPD Programme: Getting it Right for Twos

Online Course
Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

This programme will explore getting it right for two-year-olds in early years settings. They will support educators to look at provision through the eyes of the two-year-old, reflecting upon the unique child, positive relationships, enabling environments and learning and development. The sessions will provide opportunities to reflect upon aspects of the day with children's rights in mind, including the daily routines, mindful care and supporting play.

Free

Mathematising the Day

Online Course
Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

This session will support you to identify children’s everyday mathematical experiences and plan for playful moments of mathematics throughout your day. We will be focusing on how to implement evidence-informed approaches that support children’s understanding of mathematical skills and concepts through the integration of games, stories and mathematical vocabulary into our everyday routines, interactions and provision.

Free

CPD Programme: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion – It Starts with Us

Online Course
Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

This EDI network will allow Early Years professionals to come together in a safe space and reflect on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. The three sessions will explore our individual values and influences and how this informs our professional selves. We will learn how to know and understand the identities of unique children, their families, and our communities and how we can use our knowledge to change practice in our settings.

Free

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