Somerset Baby Practitioner Network Meeting – May 2025

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Baby Practitioner Networks provide a lively and dynamic opportunity for professional conversations around the needs of our youngest learners. Each meeting involves an opportunity for discussion, sharing celebrations, problem-solving as a group, and sharing recent research and articles. During this network, we will reflect on being outdoors with babies and making the most of our outdoor environments. There will also be time to reflect on anything else that is on your mind in the baby room at the moment.

Talking With Babies

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

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 them to make genuine choices. We will consider how mindful care routines might support communication and language, the power of nonverbal communication, and learning the ‘conversational dance’.

Quality Interactions for Early Years Settings/Schools

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

This session will explore the basics of effective, authentic and meaningful interactions with children in the EYs. We will cover what makes for quality interactions: the way we use our body and voice, how we listen, pause, and reflect on children’s learning with them. How we can deepen their thinking, provoke new learning and delight in the children’s fascinations.

Authentic, Ambitious and Values-Based Leadership

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

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.

Quality Interactions for Early Years Settings/Schools and Childminders

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

This session will explore the basics of effective, authentic and meaningful interactions with children in the EYs. We will cover what makes for quality interactions: the way we use our body and voice, how we listen, pause, and reflect on children’s learning with them. How we can deepen their thinking, provoke new learning and delight in the children’s fascinations.

PSED Network: Emotion Coaching (Term 6)

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

This online session will help you support children and young people in understanding the different emotions they experience, why they occur, and how to handle them. We will consider Emotion Coaching as a strategy for supporting children’s behaviour and self-regulation and highlight research that demonstrates the value of an emotion coaching approach. There will be opportunities to explore the tools to practice emotion coaching with children.

SPH Introduction Session – What Can the SPH Do for Your Setting?

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

The Bristol & Beyond Early Years Stronger Practice Hub has been running for a couple of years now, yet many early years practitioners and managers, childminders, and teachers still don't know about us and what we can offer you. This introduction session will allow you to meet our SPH lead, Lucy Driver, and other network leads, hear more about the Hub and what is going on in your area and share your voice and needs so that we can tailor our support for you.

SPH Introduction Session – What Can the SPH Do for Your Setting?

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

The Bristol & Beyond Early Years Stronger Practice Hub has been running for a couple of years now, yet many early years practitioners and managers, childminders, and teachers still don't know about us and what we can offer you. This introduction session will allow you to meet our SPH lead, Lucy Driver, and other network leads, hear more about the Hub and what is going on in your area and share your voice and needs so that we can tailor our support for you.

Physical Development – The 8 Sensory Systems With Helen Battelley

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

On this webinar, we’ll go beyond the five senses we’re all familiar with and dive into all eight sensory systems—including proprioception, vestibular, and interoception—and explore how they influence a child’s physical development, behaviour, and ability to engage with the world around them.

Courageous Conversations – Leadership

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

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.

Tuning in to Babies

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

These sessions will explore educators' role in tuning in to babies, reflecting upon listening to their voice, supporting co-regulation and tuning in during the settling period. We will consider the key person's role in deeply tuning in to babies' identities, making links with babies' experiences outside of the setting. The sessions will explore the barriers to tuning in to babies’ parents and carers. The sessions will support educators in building a toolbox of strategies to tune in to babies, such as serve and return, schemas, and sensory development.

Physical Development – Super Scribers With Helen Battelley

Online Course
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Stronger Practice Hub Event

As early years educators, we know that writing starts long before children pick up a pencil—it begins with movement, play, and the development of strong, coordinated bodies. In this session, we’ll explore how physical development lays the groundwork for mark-making and early writing. From core strength to fine motor skills, we’ll look at the building blocks that help our young learners become confident, capable scribers.

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Parking
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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