🎉 West Mids Early Years Professionals—come and join the HEART #NurtureNetwork 🤝 🌱 Session 1: Transition & Learning 📅 Thu 25 Sept | 🕙 10am–12pm or 🌙 6–8pm Let’s explore how transitions shape development—and how you can support them with care. 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nurture-ne... 1/2

It's #NationalInclusionWeek! Make your classroom more inclusive: learn how to spot and support children with #DLD in our upcoming webinar👇 https://speechandlanguage.org.uk/educators-and-professionals/dld-educational-support/developmental-language-disorder-awareness-day-webinar/

Let your practice GROW this summer 🌱🌻 Join Growing Practice—a national series of free webinars from Stronger Practice Hubs across the UK. 🤝 Open to all #EarlyYearsEducators 🎓 Practical, evidence-informed sessions 🔗 Book now 👉 www.strongerpracticehubs.org.uk/hubs/wm/hear... #EarlyYears #CPD

🎉 Early Years Stronger Practice Hubs Are Making a Real Difference! An independent evaluation has found that the Early Years Stronger Practice Hubs programme, which launched in 2022, is boosting outcomes across the country—especially in more deprived areas. 🧵

The @theeef.bsky.social evaluation report of our Concept Cat approach from RAND Europe is out now. TLDR: Concept Cat helped Early Years children to learn conceptual vocabulary and maths. Read the full report here: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/news/new-eef...

Supporting Self-Regulation in the Early Years 🧠💖🙂 📅 Wed 13 Aug | 🕙 10–11am or 6–7pm Interactive session for #EarlyYears professionals. Learn practical tools to support emotions, relationships, and independence 🚀✨ BOOK NOW 👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/supporting... #EYFS #EarlyYearsCPD

Positive early experiences contribute to better happier childhood teenage years & improved life chances as disabled adults. @cdctweets have a new guide & training to support early years providers & practitioners tinyurl.com/4fymd7xu

Early support changes everything. We're working with @theeef.bsky.social to trial our Early Talk Boost programme in early years settings. Help children struggling with talking & understanding words thrive. Learn more & sign up: speechandlanguage.org.uk/.../early-ta...

✨NEW✨ Stronger Practice Insights: Working with Children under Two A comprehensive collection of materials curated from Hubs nationwide, complemented by links to the #EYFS framework, further research, and online resources. 📥 Download free via our website! #EarlyYears #UnderTwos

📢 Early years practitioners—your voice matters! The DfE is reviewing space requirements in childcare settings. Help shape the future, including outdoor spaces. 🗓️ Deadline: 11 July 2025 📝 Respond now: bit.ly/407oImO #EarlyYears #EYFSConsultation #HaveYourSay

🌍 Ready to take climate action in your #EarlyYears setting? Join Emma Baines and the West Midlands Climate Ambassadors Hub for a 2-hour online session—network, plan, and leave with key steps for sustainability 🌱 📅 Don’t miss out—start your Climate Action Plan today Sign up: bit.ly/4l4s4zk

Congratulations to Alison Hanson of Ally's House Childcare (Leamington Spa), on her 'West Midlands Childminder of the Year' award at the Coram PACEY Regional Childminder Awards 2025 🏆 Alison is a fantastic childminder and firm friend of the HEART Midlands Early Years SPH 🌳💚 @corampacey.bsky.social

📣 Calling all educators! We’re looking for passionate people like you to share your insights and experiences as part of our community of educators, the EEF Exchange. Help make sure our work stays relevant and grounded in the real world.  Apply: ow.ly/UtL450VCmn5

📢 Early Years Professionals – Have Your Say! LGA Rising Needs in Early Years Provider Survey 2025: Share your insights on how children's needs are evolving in early education. 🕒 10 mins 📅 Deadline: Wed 14 May 🔒 Anonymous & confidential 🔗 smartsurvey.co.uk/s/EarlyYearsNeedsProfessionalsSurvey/

📢✨ Good News! ✨📢 The Early Years Stronger Practice Hubs programme has been extended until March 2026 🙌 We are excited to continue this vital work across the West Midlands region! Join our mailing list to keep up-to-date: eepurl.com/ja8so6

Today, we’ve added two new approaches to our Early Years Evidence Store: ✍️Interactive writing, and, 🧼Self care. In this blog, @juliangrenier.bsky.social, explores how educators can support the development of interactive writing in their setting. ⏬ ⏬ 1/3

“This approach can help children to develop their expressive language, encouraging them to think aloud and rehearse what they want to say.” Read: https://eef.li/SMxb4a 2/3

You can explore the two new approaches and a host of other evidence-informed engaging content in our Early Years Evidence Store: https://tinyurl.com/yex6repu 3/3

This is good news! Stronger Practice Hubs are based in every region of England and work with early years settings, schools and childminders. They are designed to build evidence-informed practice in the early years, working with @theeef.bsky.social Find out more: www.strongerpracticehubs.org.uk