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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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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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Communication, Language and Literacy Network: Unpicking the STAIRS Approach

Online Course
Virtual Event

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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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Maths is Everywhere! Continuous Provision and Outdoor Maths

Online Course
Virtual Event

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How do you make maths-rich environments that are filled with challenging tasks and interesting mathematical tools? How do you create playful spaces and enabling environments that support children to deepen and develop their early maths knowledge, skills and understanding? Robin will be talking about the Firm Foundations of Early Maths and how continuous provision can be carefully prepared to support essential maths learning. James will be talking about a playful, outdoor approach to Early Maths that invites and ignites big, bold mathematics out in the garden, out in the playground, out in the world!

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SEND Network: Supporting Non-Verbal Children with Communication and Behaviour – Using Visuals in the Early Years

Stronger Practice Hub Event

Supporting Non-Verbal Children with Communication and Behaviour: Using Visuals in the Early Years is a practical course designed for early years practitioners working with children who are not developing communication in the usual way. The session focuses on how visual supports can help children make sense of their environment (receiving communication) and find ways to express their needs, wants, and feelings (giving communication). Practitioners will explore a range of simple yet effective strategies to reduce frustration, support emotional regulation, and foster meaningful interaction. The course also looks at how to make early years settings more inclusive for children with a wide range of communication needs.

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Bristol Behaviour Surgery at Filton Avenue Nursery School

Filton Avenue Nursery School Blakeney Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Come along to our in-person behaviour surgeries, where you can bring your scenarios and questions to local colleagues and experts. Through reflection, discussion and shared curiosity, we can unpick experiences, helping you to provide the best possible support to children in your care.

Identifying and Supporting Speech, Language and Communication – January 2026 (Twos Session)

Online Course
Virtual Event

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Are you an educator working with two-year-olds? Would you like to learn more about how best to support their communication skills? Join local speech and language therapists from the Sirona Early Years Speech and Language Therapy Team to reflect on supporting two-year-olds’ speech and language development. This session is for all Early Years practitioners, including Early Years settings, schools, and childminders.

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PSED Network: Behaviour and Emotional Literacy

Online Course
Virtual Event

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Join the Bristol PSED team for four networking sessions over the year as we collaborate to discuss key areas of PSED practice. We will be guided by Eight to Relate, a values-driven auditing tool for embedding connection and relationship-based practice in your setting. The networks will be an opportunity to come together and explore aspects of provision, sharing ideas, reflecting and connecting with other settings, coming away full of ideas and tools you can use straight away.

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Interactive Writing (EEF Approach)

Online Course
Virtual Event

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Come and find out more about the EEF’s evidence-informed approach: interactive writing. This approach is based on the idea of a back-and-forth conversation between the educator and child to build up a message that can be written together. The approach aims to support and motivate a young writer/mark-maker at the very beginning of this magical literacy journey.

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Identifying and Supporting Speech, Language and Communication – February 2026 (Babies Session)

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 feature input from speech and language therapists on typical language development, followed by a supportive discussion on strategies for support and valuable resources. Building on what we already know about supporting speech, language and communication difficulties. This session will focus on supportive strategies and ideas to use with babies, including building foundations for interactions through people games and routines, and resources to share with parents.

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