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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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Emotion Coaching for Childminders and Settings

Online Course
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.

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Identifying and Supporting Speech, Language and Communication – November 2025

Online Course
Virtual Event

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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 supportive strategies and resources to use in your settings and with families. We will explore the importance of quality interactions via our own key message themes around ‘Chatting, playing, sharing books and singing together,’ as well as learning opportunities from other sources, including the Education Endowment Foundation.

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Courageous Conversations – Leadership

Online Course
Virtual Event

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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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Inspiring Provision for Babies

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

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

Knowle West Nursery School Leinster Avenue, Bristol, United Kingdom

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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

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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

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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

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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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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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CPD Programme: Behaviour

Online Course
Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

Join Bristol PSED experts as we discuss all things behaviour. We will support a returning group of practitioners through the journey of behaviour and wellbeing, equipping you with evidence-based practical tools and knowledge to take back to your settings. Over the three sessions, we will cover the timeline of behavioural incidents, helping you to know what to do before, during and after behaviour happens. We will cover all of the behaviours you might see in Early Years settings.

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Back to Basics: Quality Interactions

Online Course
Virtual Event

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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 can we deepen their thinking, provoke new learning and delight in the children’s fascinations? We will use the Quality Interaction Checklist to learn more about developing good practice, as well as guidance from the EEF Evidence Store.

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