Humour Development From Birth to 3 Years With Dr Elena Hoicka

Online Course

Stronger Practice Hub Event

In this session Dr Elena Hoicka will discuss research-based evidence about how to share humour with children from infancy through 3 years. She will discuss when infants first understand and produce humour and go through 21 types of humour that children appreciate in the first four years. She will also discuss how you can share humour with children and understand when they joke with you. Finally, she will discuss research about early humour's potential benefits.

Free

Creativity in Early Years Practice with Millie Colwey

Online Course

Stronger Practice Hub Event

We all know that creativity is important. But how do you define it? And WHY does it matter? This session will help you gain confidence in articulating these questions and provide practical support with curriculum, planning, and assessment through creativity and the arts.

Free

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 settings, the influence of your 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 reflections on schemas, getting outside the setting and exploring babies’ communities. This session is for leaders of settings with babies, leaders of baby rooms or aspiring baby room leaders.

Free

Being Two: Sense of Belonging

Online Course

Stronger Practice Hub Event

Understanding your world and where you fit into it can be exciting and complex when you are two! This workshop will focus on promoting a sense of belonging in your setting by exploring how, through caring and respectful relationships, we can demonstrate that children feel seen and heard, that we recognise them and their families as unique, and that they belong.

Free

Being Two: Patterns of Play

Online Course

Stronger Practice Hub Event

Have you noticed the uniqueness of two-year-olds’ play? This is largely influenced by their lived experiences, personal interests, and the individual ways in which their brains work. Join us for this interactive workshop to look at the multiple types of play and how these impact children’s learning. There will be opportunities to consider ways that practitioners can maximise play-based learning opportunities.

Free

Being Two: Communication

Online Course

Stronger Practice Hub Event

How do you respond to the different communication styles of two-year-olds in your setting? This workshop will examine the variety of ways children communicate and the factors that influence this. We will discuss practical strategies for supporting communication and how to plan well-thought-out daily routines that include opportunities for mindful interactions.

Free

Talking with Babies

Online Course

Stronger Practice Hub Event

This session will explore how we can talk with babies to help them become confident communicators and develop respectful relationships that enable babies to make genuine choices. We will consider how mindful care routines might support communication and language, the power of non-verbal communication and learning the ‘conversational dance’.

Free

The Privilege of Working With Two-Year-Olds – Guidance Launch for Schools

Online Course

This session will include a first look at the guidance, information about upcoming continual professional development opportunities for school-based nurseries with two-year-old provision and a chance to network with other schools with two-year-old early years provision. There will also be time for questions with Becky and Cassie. For schools in Bristol.

Free

The Privilege of Working With Two-Year-Olds – Guidance Launch for Settings

Online Course

This session will include a first look at the guidance, information about upcoming continual professional development opportunities for school-based nurseries with two-year-old provision and a chance to network with other schools with two-year-old early years provision. There will also be time for questions with Becky and Cassie. For any non-school-based early years setting in Bristol.

Free

Getting it Right for Babies

Online Course

Stronger Practice Hub Event

These sessions will explore getting it right for babies and support practitioners in looking at their provision through the eyes of babies. This is a bundle of two sessions on Thursday 13th February and Thursday 6th March 2025, 6:00pm - 8:00pm.

Free

Supporting Two-Year-Olds Speech and Language 

Online Course

Stronger Practice Hub Event

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.

Free

Birth – 3s Regional Reflection

Online Course

Stronger Practice Hub Event

This networking session is for educators who have attended any of the Birth - 3s regional events with the Stronger Practice Hub. This is a great opportunity to learn from each other across a huge variety of continual professional development (CPD) and settings in our region.

Free

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St. Pauls Children’s Centre: There is no on-site parking but parking is available on the road for £1 an hour for a maximum of 3 hours, or in Cabot Circus which is 5-minute walk from the St. Pauls Children’s Centre.

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