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- If you need to cancel a booking, this must be completed within 48 hours before the course start date and time. This can be done via email to [email protected]. This is to ensure that we accommodate anyone on the waiting list and trainers receive the updated attendance list in order to prepare for the session.
- Booking fees are non-refundable. For events that have course fees, refunds will only be considered if notification of cancellation is received 48 hours prior to the course start date and time.
Please read our terms and conditions in full before booking on any event.
| Safeguarding Category B | BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE | |||
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| delivered by New Pathways | ||||
| Tuesday 1st October 2024 | 9:00 - 16:00 | |||
| The aim of this course is to ensure participants know what to look for and have a clear knowledge of the reporting process and their own responsibilities. | ||||
| Online | £40 Members | £80 Non-members | ||
| Safeguarding Category C | BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE | |||
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| delivered by New Pathways | ||||
| Thursday 17th October & 24th October 2024 | 9:00 - 16:00 | |||
| The aim of this two day advanced level sessions is to familiarise participants with what happens and ensure they are able to take part in each of the safeguarding stages after a safeguarding report has been made. | ||||
| Online | £80 Members | £120 Non-members | ||
| Creating a Safeguarding Culture | BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE | |||
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| Wednesday 27th November 2024 | 18:00-19:00 | |||
| This 1-hour session aims to help you think about how to create and/or strengthen a safeguarding culture within your setting by offering tips, ideas and practical resources that you can then adapt to your own setting and staff. | ||||
| Online | £15 Members | £30 Non-members | ||
| Active Child | EVENT FULL | |||
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| Tuesday 24th September 2024 | 16:30 - 19:30 | |||
| Active Child is aimed at children following on from the first 3 years, supporting children and providing practitioners with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to support children to be 'fully physical' (Greenland, 2009) in the curriculum for Wales. | ||||
| Face to Face - Swansea | £10 booking fee | |||
| Curious about the Curriculum | BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE | |||
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| Tuesday 8th October 2024 | 9:30 - 10:30 | |||
| Join Kelcie Stacey, Early Years Education Officer to explore the non maintained curriculum. These sessions aim to explore some of the common misunderstandings and miscommunications as well as inform you of updates and answer questions. Each session will cover a different topic and can be informed by practitioners. | ||||
| Online | Free for members | |||
| Other dates available: | 12th November 2024 (9:30 - 10:30) | |||
| 4th February (13:30 -14:30) | ||||
| Active Child | BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE | |||
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| Thursday 10th October 2024 | 13:30 - 16:30 | |||
| Active Child is aimed at children following on from the first 3 years, supporting children and providing practitioners with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to support children to be 'fully physical' (Greenland, 2009) in the curriculum for Wales. | ||||
| Face to Face - Powys | £10 booking fee | |||
| Diverse Pathways of Development in Early Childhood | BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE | |||
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| delivered by Kerry Murphy | ||||
| Wednesday 13th November 2024 | 18:00 - 20:00 | |||
| This course explores the various ways children can develop, providing new perspectives and insights into divergent pathways of development. | ||||
| Online | £10 booking fee | |||
| Self Directed Play and Neurodiversity in Early Childhood | BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE | |||
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| delivered by Kerry Murphy | ||||
| Wednesday 22nd January 2025 | 18:00 - 20:00 | |||
| There is a common misconception that play does not come naturally to children who are neurodivergent and/or disabled and that they need to be taught how to play functionally, appropriately and purposefully. This course debunks this myth. | ||||
| Online | £10 booking fee | |||
| Centering play in principled approaches for inclusion | BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE | |||
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| delivered by Dr Sharon Colillies | ||||
| Thursday 10th October 2024 | 18:00 - 20:00 | |||
| This webinar will support the early years educator to reflect on their knowledge, values and beliefs surrounding an inclusive approach and how adaptations in teaching practices can foster a strong sense of self, sense of belonging and sense of wellbeing for the diverse learner. | ||||
| Online | £20 Members | £40 Non-members | ||
| Strengthening Governance | BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE | |||
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| Tuesday 16th October 2024 | 18:00 - 19:00 | |||
| To introduce you to our governance team and to discuss what we can do to support you to develop your knowledge to be confident in your role as a trustee to ensure it is both effective and enjoyable. | ||||
| Online | £5 booking fee | |||
| Benefits of risk taking in play | BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE | |||
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| Wednesday 23rd October 2024 | 18:00 - 19:30 | |||
| We all know that playing is important and that children will seek out opportunities to stretch and challenge themselves when playing. This interactive session will explore the concept of risk-benefit assessment, and what early years practitioners can do to support it in practice. | ||||
| Online | £15 Members | |||
| Introduction to Childcare | BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE | |||
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| Delivered by Early Years Wales in partnership with Social Care Wales | ||||
| Thursday 21st November 2024 | 9:45 - 15:15 | |||
| The Introduction to Childcare course gives an overview of working in childcare and early years. | ||||
| Online | Free | |||
| Y Cylch Cymraeg | BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE | |||
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| The Observation, Assessment and Planning Cycle | ||||
| Tuesday 14th January | 9:30 - 11:00 | |||
| Join Matt Anthony, Welsh Language Project Lead to explore the role Observation and Assessment has on Planning for Welsh language development. | ||||
| Online | £5 booking fee | |||
| Evening session available: Thursday 30th January 18:00 - 19:30 | ||||
| Shifting from non-racist to anti-racist practice | BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE | |||
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| Tuesday 14th & 21st January 2025 | 18:00 - 19:30 | |||
| Working with Early Years settings raising the youngest of our society, Early Years Wales know that introducing an anti-racist journey for babies and young children at the earliest opportunity is very important; | ||||
| Online | £10 booking fee | |||
Breakfast Bulletin
This short 30-minute session will brief attendees on our planned activities, our updated products and services, and other news from Early Years Wales.
Bring a coffee and hear about our plans. We will continue to share our membership offers and benefits in a range of ways to all members
| TBC |
Network meeting
These are opportunities for leaders and managers of settings to meet online and share conversations that are important to the sector and to running and leading staff in settings around Wales. We are facilitating these opportunities to network and share conversations.
It is our intention to make these your meetings - with your booking you will be invited to suggest a topic. If there is a conversation that you think leaders and managers should share, we are happy to be guided by you.
We will email all leaders and managers booked on the network with the agenda and topics in advance. In addition to topics of challenge and a space to raise concerns, we would be delighted to share ideas for good practice, celebrate successes and innovation around Wales and invite any leader or manager that would like to share ideas.
| 25th September | 9:30am - 10:30am | Book now |
| Evening session available: 7th October 18:45 - 19:45 | ||
Working Group
The Working Group is a chance for you, as early years professionals, to feed into Early Years Wales's policy agenda with our head of Policy and Advocacy, Leo Holmes.
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. The topic of the first meeting will be E-safety in Early Years settings
| 2nd October | 9:30am - 10:30am | Book now |
Homebased Childcare Network
These are opportunities for homebased childcare practitioners to meet online and share conversations that are important to the sector. We are facilitating these opportunities to network and share conversations.
| 7th October | 18:45 - 19:45 | Book now |
Not a member? Membership is currently free, find out more.
| October 17th - 13:00 - 13:30 | ||||
| Wellbeing coaching offer Early Years educators may feel the burden of caring for and educating young children (and more widely parents, families and communities). Join Sarah Wiggin to find out what a well-being conversation looks like and how well-being coaching can support you as a leader and manager. |
Book your place | |||
| November 14th - 13:00 - 13:30 | ||||
| Social Care Wales Join Kate Newman, Health and Wellbeing Development Officer for Social Care Wales who will be sharing and answering questions on the Tools and resources available to support your team members with their well-being in the workplace |
Book your place | |||
Catch up:
Exclusive online training for Early Years Wales members. This training can be accessed and completed at your own pace.
To access, log in to your online account here and then follow the links below:
| SPECIAL OFFER UNTIL 31ST OCTOBER 2024 | ||||
| Active Baby + Active Toddler | £25 | PURCHASE HERE | ||
| The Active Toddler course follows on from 18 months to 3 years and provides practitioners with opportunities to provide the toddlers in their care with whole body experiences and an environment that promotes open-ended spontaneous movement play geared to the movement needs of the individual child. It aims to focus the practitioner to observe, tune in, feel movement, and respond in stage appropriate ways enabling them to facilitate opportunities throughout the day. | ||||
| Internet access is required to access the training | ||||
| Active Baby | £15 | PURCHASE HERE | ||
| Active Baby focuses on the movement and well-being of children from 0–18 months looking at development and ways in which we can support and nurture not only the babies in our care, but also the physical activity and well-being of the adults who care for and educate them | ||||
| Internet access is required to access the training | ||||
| Active Toddler | £15 | PURCHASE HERE | ||
| The Active Toddler course follows on from 18 months to 3 years and provides practitioners with opportunities to provide the toddlers in their care with whole body experiences and an environment that promotes open-ended spontaneous movement play geared to the movement needs of the individual child. It aims to focus the practitioner to observe, tune in, feel movement, and respond in stage appropriate ways enabling them to facilitate opportunities throughout the day. | ||||
| Internet access is required to access the training | ||||
| Play's the Essence | £15 | PURCHASE HERE | ||
| This is a series of three separate recordings that can be used for an individual's continuous professional development or as staff training. | ||||
| Internet access is required to access the training | ||||
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.
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| Members only | earlyyears.wales | |
| Members please log in to access | ||
| Information and videos to support the journey. | The professional learning journey has been developed to help guide schools through the structural and professional learning aspects of preparing for Curriculum for Wales. It helps you find your way through the different models for professional learning, and plan your own journey | |
| External | hwb.gov.wales | |
| Diversity and Anti- Racist Professional Learning |
Professional learning for those working in education to develop an understanding and development of anti- racist practice | |
| External | darpl.org | |
A suite of modules designed to assist Foundation Phase practitioners to reflect on practice and provision in the following areas: Outdoor learning; Child development; Transitions; Observation; Play and play-based learning; Authentic and purposeful learning. The suite also contains an Introduction manual, which will need to be understood before undertaking the learning in the modules, as well as a frequently asked questions guide. | ||
| External | hwb.gov.wales | |
| Prevent Training | This resource consists of 4 short videos (by Addysg Oedolion Cymru | Adult Learning Wales) to raise awareness and understanding of the Prevent Duty in Wales. The statutory guidance refers to the importance of Prevent awareness training to equip staff to identify children at risk of being drawn into terrorism and to challenge extremist ideas. | |
| External | hwb.gov.wales | |