Join us for an Advanced Child Protection and Safeguarding Training for childminders. This training, delivered by the Bristol Association for Neighbourhood Daycare (BAND) Ltd, will help you meet the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and support your knowledge in child protection and safeguarding. This training session will help you feel confident as a DSL to follow the correct child protection procedures.

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The ‘Supporting Multilingual Children and Families Toolkit’ was created by the Early Years Alliance (EYA) and the BEL programme has funded a toolkit for every primary school, early years setting and childminder in Bristol. This interactive virtual classroom session, led by the EYA, will take a look at some elements of the toolkit and provide lots of opportunities to learn about and discuss how you can support children and families who are multilingual. 

Taking
the four overarching principles of the Early Years Foundation Stage as the
focus this virtual classroom session will cover: 

How settings can support
children with English as an additional language (EAL) 

How settings can develop
effective practice to best meet the needs of a multi-lingual cohort

Please do make sure you have registered for your fully funded toolkit, if you haven’t please see the BEL section of this website for further details. 

Following on from the launch of Ready for Two’s? The privilege of working with two-year-olds we are happy to announce the following continual professional development opportunity for school-based nurseries who currently have two-year-old provision or those who are considering creating two-year-old provision.  

Join Becky Newman and Cassie Holland for three half day sessions reflecting upon all things related to two-year-old provision. 

Friday 23rd May 2025 9am-12pm 

Friday 6^th June 2025 9am-12pm 

Friday 20^th June 2025 9am-12pm 

Throughout the sessions we will reflect upon a toolkit for reflective practice when leading or working with two-year-olds. We will consider tuning in to the unique child, how positive relationships are the basis of everything, creating enabling environments and supporting learning and development whilst working with two-year-olds. 

Venue: St Pauls Nursery School Continual Professional Development Centre. 

You must attend all 3 sessions to complete the course. These sessions are for Bristol schools only. 

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Becky is Assistant Head, EYFS Lead and SENCO at Upper Horfield Community School and Early Years, Interim Early Years Consultant for South Bristol and Communication, Language and Literacy Local Specialist Leader. 

Cassie is Birth-3 Local Specialist Leader, Manager Archfield House Nursery and  Birth-3 Network Leader at Bristol & Beyond Stronger Practice Hub. 

Join us to look around another setting, network with baby practitioners and talk about current celebrations and challenges at your setting. Anyone working with babies in early years settings or childminders are welcome.Baby Practitioner Network meeting is organised by the Bristol and Beyond Early Years Stronger Practice Hub and the Bristol Area Networks.

These events have specific focuses for discussion, they’ll give you an opportunity to reflect upon current highlights and challenges in your setting. Local networks may be hosted in a variety of settings so different types of provision can inspire you. These networks create possibilities for making connections with other settings to call upon between meetings for advice or to share practice.

· Three sessions at 3 different venues during 2024-25.

Opportunities to:

· Look at high-quality outdoor provision.

· Have reflection time with colleagues and an opportunity to problem-solve together.

· Take part in impactful action research to make simple changes that will ‘unlock the outdoors’ for your teams and children.

Those who attended session 1 are invited to bring along their reflective question and anything they would like to discuss from their work so far. If this will be your first session, please have a think about the areas of your outdoor provision that you would really like to focus on.

Join us to look around another setting, network with baby practitioners and talk about current celebrations and challenges at your setting. Anyone working with babies in early years settings or childminders are welcome.Baby Practitioner Network meeting is organised by the Bristol and Beyond Early Years Stronger Practice Hub and the Bristol Area Networks.

These events have specific focuses for discussion, they’ll give you an opportunity to reflect upon current highlights and challenges in your setting. Local networks may be hosted in a variety of settings so different types of provision can inspire you. These networks create possibilities for making connections with other settings to call upon between meetings for advice or to share practice.