Early Years Stronger Practice Hubs Extended Until March 2026
We’re pleased to announce that the DFE's Early Years Stronger Practice Hubs programme has been extended until March 2026.
This means Hubs will continue to provide free support and advice to improve quality in early years settings, by sharing evidence-informed practice through their local networks. The Bristol & Beyond SPH is reviewing it's provision and will be scheduling more professional development soon.
For now, see the SPH What's Coming Up poster for March and see below for event links, webinars and other resources you can access. We would also like to invite anyone who has attended our Birth-3 events or our Maths events to attend our Regional Network Reflection sessions in March. Come and join our learning communities!
We still have space on these online workshops will involve input about typical language development from speech and language therapists, followed by supportive discussion around strategies for support and useful resources.
Book Club
To support early reading Bristol Early Years and the SPH have started the Bristol Early Years Book Club. As well as being useful and inspiring, this is really joyous! Every month they are sharing a list of books, with a particular focus or theme, a poem and suggestions for how to use the books in your settings. You can see these monthly resources on the Bristol Early Years website, and you can watch some videos of books or poems being recited on their Instagram. Start following the Bristol Early Years Book Club to see which books and poems are going to pop up next month!
Terri is a local specialist lead for PSED in Bristol and has done a diploma with Trauma Informed Schools, which in her words, 'blew her mind and changed how she viewed the world'. She shares her learning, dispels the jargon and invites you to be curious and brave and shift your thinking, from viewing behaviours as challenging to viewing them as distressed behaviours. Terri offers hope, that with knowledge and understanding, you have the power and are in the privileged position to connect and be the emotionally available adult that a child might need to tip the scales and change their life outcomes.
These networking sessions are for educators and childminders who have attended any of the Birth – 3s events or Maths events with the Stronger Practice Hub.
This is a great opportunity to learn from each other across a huge variety of settings in our region. We will revisit and reflect on some of the golden threads in our continual professional development (CPD), we will celebrate successes and share our challenges. We will also have breakout rooms with specific topics to share our learning and thinking with each other. Come and join our learning communities!
Would you like to explore and develop your Equality, Diversity and Inclusion practice? What do we mean by EDI? What role can Early Years professionals and childminders play in promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion with a particular focus on race, culture, and gender identity? This taster session will introduce you to EDI and encourage you to start a journey of self-discovery and increased awareness in a safe space.
Would you like more quick resources, short reads, practical examples of practice or training? We have some new web pages with 'Practice Bites'including Case Studies, Mini INSET sessions, and Making Sense Of resources. You can print these resources and share or use with your teams. We will be adding to this all the time, but to start with you may like....
The Department for Education has published new toilet training guidance on the Help for Early Years Providers website. This will help educators understand how to support babies and young children with toilet training in early years settings. The guidance includes information and resources on:
When to start toilet training
How to toilet train
Common toilet training challenges
Supporting children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
St. Edmund's SPH held a webinar on 'Supporting your Families with Toilet Training' and developed a handout to help practitioners in this area. You can read more and access their resources here.
Our Social Channels and Your Preferences
Do join us on our social channels! We have launched a LinkedIn page, where we will share our blogs and resources, and we share what's coming up and more bite-sized stories on our Instagram and Facebook channels. Click on the icons below!
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Bristol Early Years Teaching Hub, Little Bishop Street, City Of Bristol, Bristol BS2 9JF
