Training Planner

Early Years Wales Member Roadshow (North)
Tuesday 18th November | 18:30 to 20:30
Free for Early Years Wales members | White House Hotel & Spa, Denbighshire (LL17 0AW)

Early Years Wales is bringing you a series of Member Road Shows across Wales, designed to support professionals across the early years sector. We will be joined by Michelle Blakemoore-Irving from Nestlings Forest School & Nursery and Greg Woolley BA, GCert, MA, Youth and Community Worker.

Early Years Wales Member Roadshow (West)
Thursday 20th November | 18:30 to 20:00
Free for Early Years Wales members | Canolfan Gwili, Swansea (SA4 0XB)

Early Years Wales is bringing you a series of Member Road Shows across Wales, designed to support professionals across the early years sector. We will be joined by CYCA, who will be discussing Co-Regulation and Self-Regulation for children aged 0–5 years.

Neuro-Inclusion
Wednesday 26th November | 18:30 to 20:30
£20 Member | £35 Non-member | Online

The perfect place to start for anyone looking to gain an awareness of, and to better understand neurodivergence – with AP Cymru

Are you taking part in Camau through Early Years Wales? Would you love a relaxed, friendly space to share ideas, swap experiences, and grow your Welsh confidence together? Welcome to Camau Conversations - a brand-new online community for Camau learners to come together, talk about real practice, and inspire one another along the way. It's not a lesson - it's a conversation: supportive, bilingual, and full of practical ideas you can use in your setting right away.

You'll explore how to make Cymraeg part of everyday routines, link Camau learning to your plans, and connect language, culture and community through Cynefin in Practice. We'll help you find your voice in Confident Conversations, use Welsh naturally in Language Through Play, and bring the language alive in Storytime & Song. You'll also discover new ways to engage families, overcome challenges, and share resources and good practice.

Starts: Tuesday 4th November | 17:30 to 18:30 | Online
 (then the first Tuesday of every month)

Practitioners will reflect on the Welsh they already use and discover how even small steps can make a big difference to children's sense of identity and belonging. Together, we will create a shared vision for normalising Welsh in everyday practice.

Next topic: Welsh Language in Play: Supporting Learning Through Fun and Exploration

Next date: Thursday 20th November | 13:00 - 14:00 | Online

The Working Group is a chance for you, as early years professionals, to feed into Early Years Wales's policy agenda.

We want to make sure our work reflects your voices, as your firsthand knowledge and experience of what works, and what doesn't, is crucial in enabling us to shape our campaigns to benefit this continuously evolving sector.

The Working Group will take place on a bi-monthly basis and will be based on a specific topic relevant to Early Years provision.

Next date: 3rd December | 9:30 to 10:30 | Online
Topic: The Real Living Wage

Four-part online series designed to equip professionals with the knowledge and confidence to better support children with learning disabilities and developmental delays.

Our Masterclasses are short, focused pre-recorded sessions (30–45 minutes) offering bite-sized, high-impact learning that combines expert input, real-world examples, and reflective activities, each worth 2 CPD points and including a certificate, with optional tasks to deepen learning.

Complementing this, our Reflect & Share Pods are mini CPD communities that bring together 8–12 staff for informal, 20–30 minute monthly sessions to reflect on case studies, articles, or videos, share ideas, and explore practical solutions, fostering collaboration, peer support, and ongoing team growth.

All of these opportunities contribute to our CPD Points and Awards system, which recognises and celebrates professional learning aligned with the Professional Learning Framework for Wales. Points earned through Masterclasses, Pods, and live training can be tracked and celebrated through annual certification for individuals and whole settings, making CPD more meaningful, visible, and rewarding.

Thrive: A Well-being and Nourishment Series for Practitioners

• Masterclass One: Nutrition for Energy, Focus and Concentration

• Masterclass two: Nutrition for Resilience

Terrific Twos to Fantastic Fours: A Complete guide to Early Childhood Development
Developed exclusively for Early Years Wales. Presented by Kirstine Beeley.

• Masterclass one: Terrific Two's – Understanding the Amazing World of the Two-Year-Old in Early Years

• Masterclass two: Thriving Three's – Igniting the Wonder in Three-Year-Olds in Early Years

• Masterclass three: Fantastic Fours – The Unfolding World of Four-Year-Olds in Early Years

Foundations in Motion: Reflexes, senses and early development 

Five masterclasses with Fit 2 learn: 

• Introduction to Motor-Sensory Development 

•  Primitive Reflexes & Physical Development 

• Motor skills development beyond primitive reflexes 

• Oracy and sound processing development strategies in early years

• Integrating the Senses & Motor Skills 

Each session is delivered using a 30–45 min video containing practical, bite-sized, usable content.

Picture the Possibilities: Visual Learning in the Early Years

"From the moment children open their eyes, they make sense of the world in pictures. When we enable them to learn visually, we don't just help them learn — we open the door to a lifetime of curiosity, confidence, and creativity."

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This programme is broken into two parts, with simple exercises to consider how best to incorporate visual learning into your setting.

• Masterclass one:  Understanding visual thinking and learning for yourself and your children

• Masterclass two: The Final Six Steps for Early Years – How Can You Integrate and Measure These in Your Setting?

Exclusive offer for Early Years Wales Members
book 3 well-being coaching sessions for £60!

The well-being conversation in Early Years leadership is often led first and foremost by the funding, wages, workload, training, quality and conditions found in the care sector

The conversation that Early Years Wales would like to support as an offer in partnership with Den Early Years is around well-being and how it moves into a dynamic, evolving, generative space where Early Years leaders are warmly invited to work with the narratives about, in and with their profession. In this space well-being will be cultivated in self-presence, connectedness and belonging.