Introduction to Trauma and Adversity
Online CourseStronger Practice Hub Event
This online session will offer time and space to have an awareness of ACES and protective factors, to understand the neuroscience behind trauma and how this impacts a child, and to build your confidence in using a therapeutic response.
Open/Study Day at Archfield House Nursery: Team Development – Exploring Strategies to Maximise the Potential of Your Team
Archfield House Nursery, Bristol 2 Archfield Road, Bristol, United KingdomStronger 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.
Curiosity Circle with Kerry Murphy: Divergent Pathways of Development
Online CourseStronger Practice Hub Event
Our Guest Trainer for this Curiosity Circle is Kerry Murphy. The Divergent Pathways of Development curiosity circle provides a unique opportunity to explore and embrace developmental trajectories that diverge from the typical norms. This course seeks to challenge preconceived notions and societal biases surrounding neurodivergence by examining the language used to describe children's development and fostering a celebratory and empowering perspective.
Developing a Loving Pedagogy in a Childminding Setting with Guest Trainer Tamsin Grimmer
Online CourseStronger Practice Hub Event
In this session, we will consider what constitutes a loving pedagogy and explore what we mean by love and pedagogy, learn about speaking different love languages and helping our children feel loved, consider how to foster a loving pedagogy in practical ways, and review and evaluate our practice in the light of a loving pedagogy.
New to EYFS Bundle (Online) Nursery staff in PVIs or Nursery schools
Online CourseStronger Practice Hub Event
This session is for Nursery staff in PVIs or Nursery schools only. This three-part course will support you to embed the Early Years Foundation Stage in your setting whilst ensuring that children and families are at the heart of good practice and will cover three areas: Principles of EYFS, Observation, assessment, and planning and The Role of the Adult and an Enabling Environment.
Face-to-Face Bundle: Understanding Children’s Behaviour Through Attachment and Relationship-Based Practice
St. Pauls Nursery School and Children’s Centre Little Bishop Street, Bristol, United KingdomStronger Practice Hub Event
This session will help you learn about attachment theory, the adult’s role in children’s wellbeing and coregulation, the effects of environment, routines, ACES, and trauma on children, and how to connect and respond to children therapeutically.
Exploring Schematic Play for Childminders with Guest Trainer Tamsin Grimmer
Online CourseStronger Practice Hub Event
In this session we will explore some definitions of schemas and schematic behaviour, find out about different behaviour displayed relating to schematic play, consider how sometimes schematic play is misinterpreted as poor behaviour and reflect upon your children and consider how to plan for schematic play.
Talking with Babies (Online)
Online CourseStronger 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’.
Developing Relational Attunement with Guest Trainer Jacqui Lewis (Bundle)
Online CourseStronger Practice Hub Event
Using the beautiful simplicity of sociograms, this course will provide you with a visual representation of the relationships with the children in your setting. As early years educators and leaders of pedagogy, you are invited to deconstruct, confront, theorise, and potentially think otherwise about the significance of positive and nurturing relationships within the setting.
Boosting Communication, Language and Literacy through Movement (2-5s) with Guest Trainer Helen Battelley (PD Session 1)
Online CourseStronger Practice Hub Event
Movement is our first language and form of communication with the outside world. This session will explore how becoming movement literate can impact on the acquisition of language. The session will also explore other fundamental ways movement supports these areas from focal support to promoting neuroplasticity.
Authentic, Ambitious and Values-Based Leadership (Leadership Session 1)
Online CourseStronger 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.
Early Years Maths Conference
Stronger Practice Hub Event
An opportunity for early years practitioners and childminders to come together for some maths inspiration from guest speakers and trainers.
