Leadership and Staff Development Network

Stronger Practice Hub Event

Archfield House Nursery is a partner setting of the Bristol & Beyond Stronger Practice Hub. It is a family run private setting that opened in 1986. Archfield received their second outstanding Ofsted rating in April 2023 and the Nursery of the Year award at the 2023 Nursery World Awards. Archfield and its sister nursery Woodland House have around 60-70 staff between them and Archfield has up to 102 children a day who are aged between 6 months and 4 years. Archfield will share their journey in supporting team members to thrive in their roles, acknowledging the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the current recruitment and retention crisis. They will reflect upon management and leadership structures that support team members to feel valued and motivated.

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.

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.

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.