Roadshows

The Bristol and Beyond Stronger Practice Hub is excited to be working with some fun and inspiring early years providers to offer a programme of face-to-face, hands-on, creative sessions in your local areas.

The Children’s Scrapstore: The Power of Loose Parts Play
The Children’s Kitchen: Enabling Child-Led Food Exploration

You can register for our Roadshows here.

These practical sessions are for early years practitioners and childminders, and places will be limited.

Read more about current workshop providers, where and when these are happening in your local areas and how to book on.

The Children’s Scrapstore: The Power of Loose Parts Play

Now more than ever young children need to play. They need an environment that’s rich in opportunities for exploration, deep engagement, and communication. This interactive session explores the many benefits of playing with scrap and how it nurtures all areas of development and learning in the EYFS as well as fostering the characteristics of effective learning.

Playing with scrap, both inside and outdoors provides children with limitless provocations, sparking creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. Exploring larger scale loose parts also provides physically challenging experiences which supports the prime areas of learning.

You will:

  • Explore the possibilities of open-ended resources and loose part play to support the prime areas (PSED,PD,CL) and Characteristics of Effective Learning
  • Consider the adult role and how high quality interactions can support children’s thinking
  • Take away a bag of scrap to kick start more open ended play opportunities in your own setting

There will be a limit of 20 places per session.

The Children’s Kitchen: Enabling Child-Led Food Exploration

This fun, inspiring and hands-on session aims to introduce you to child-led food exploration and give you ideas and practical insights to take back to your setting. It will also get you thinking about growing and exploring fresh produce, food insecurity, and the importance of this for young children. Each two-hour session will be led by Jo Ingleby, director of The Children’s Kitchen, who has 20 years of experience leading award-winning early years food programmes.

You will be given a goodie bag with recipes, spices and the dish you have made.

You will make your own food to eat during the session so please let us know of any allergies, all ingredients used will be vegan and nut free.

There will be a limit of 30 places per session.

These practical sessions will be followed by two online CPD sessions in September (two hours each) to help practitioners develop their own practice. The themes for these two sessions will be:

  1. Food Exploration: how to encourage children to build healthy relationships with fresh produce in early years settings
  2. Growing: Practical ways to include outdoor learning about food into practice, and linking to cooking and eating.

Register for Roadshows

Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES)

Children’s Scrapstore: The Power of Loose Parts
4th June, 6:30pm – 8:30pm at Somer Centre, Gullock Tyning, Midsomer Norton, Radstock BA3 2UH
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Children’s Kitchen: Enabling Child-Led Food Exploration
10th July, 6:30pm – 8:30pm at Somer Centre, Gullock Tyning, Midsomer Norton, Radstock BA3 2UH
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Bristol

Children’s Scrapstore: The Power of Loose Parts
20th June, 10:00am – 12:00pm at Ashton Vale Community Centre, Risdale Road, Bristol, BS3 2QY
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Children’s Kitchen: Enabling Child-Led Food Exploration
10th May, 10:00am – 12:00pm at Ashton Vale Community Centre, Risdale Rd, Bristol, BS3 2QY
Book Here

Gloucestershire

Children’s Scrapstore: The Power of Loose Parts
13th May, 10:00am – 12:00pm at Little Stars Nursery, Coleford House, Boxbush Road, Coleford, Gloucestershire, GL16 8DN
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Children’s Kitchen: Enabling Child-Led Food Exploration
5th July, 10:00am – 12:00pm at Hillview Primary School, Hillview Rd, Hucclecote, Gloucester, GL3 3LH
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North Somerset

Children’s Scrapstore: The Power of Loose Parts
20th May, 10:00am – 12:00pm at Community Scrapstore North Somerset, 66 Gazelle Road, Weston-super-Mare, BS24 9ES
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Somerset

Date/time/venue coming soon.

South Gloucestershire

Children’s Scrapstore: The Power of Loose Parts
30th April, 10:00am – 12:00pm at Parkwall Primary School, Earlstone Cresent, Barrs Court, Bristol, BS30 8AA
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Children’s Kitchen: Enabling Child-Led Food Exploration
12th June, 10:00am – 12:30pm at Parkwall Primary School, Earlstone Cresent, Barrs Court, Bristol, BS30 8AA
Book Here

Swindon

Children’s Scrapstore: The Power of Loose Parts
5th June, 10:00am – 12:00pm at Everleigh Centre, Everleigh Road, Penhill, Swindon, SN2 5HB
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Children’s Kitchen: Enabling Child-Led Food Exploration
5th June, 1:00pm – 3:00pm at Everleigh Centre, Everleigh Road, Penhill, Swindon, SN2 5HB
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Wiltshire

Date/time/venue coming soon.

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