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- The course fee secures your place. If you are unable to attend you can request a refund no later than 72 hours prior to the course start. This request must be submitted to [email protected] and include the course reference, your contact details and reason for cancellation. Cancellation requests received after this time will incur a cancellation fee of 50% of the course costs. We reserve the right to cancel your place without a refund to ensure we can pay our course liabilities for any booking not cancelled 72 hours prior to the course.
Please read our terms and conditions in full before booking on any event.
Talking Spaces - Supporting Diversity in settings
with Jaziea Farag, Jaziea will be sharing her thoughts on how books can give children a voice and help them see themselves, and our nation's diversity, reflected in literature.
Tuesday 8th July
09:30 - 10:30 | Online
Early Years Wales members only. Free
Click here for more information and to book your place
Early Years Wales Roadshows
Guest Speakers include: David Goodger (Early Years Wales), Nicola Canale (Parent Infant Foundation), Charlotte McCarthy (Prosiect Pengwin), Karen Mills (AP Cymru) and The Cardiff and Vale NHS - Early Years Experience Team.
Thursday 10th July
10:00am - 13:30 | Senedd, Pierhead Street, Cardiff, CF99 1SN
£20 Members | £35 Non-members
Click here for more information and to book your place
Little Voices, Big Stories
Welsh Language and Culture Through Storytime. Participants will explore the power of bilingual storytelling to nurture children's language skills, cultural identity, and confidence in both Welsh and English.
Thursday 17th July
09:30 - 14:00 | Online
Early Years Wales members only. £10 booking fee.
Click here for more information and to book your place
Lunch and Learn: Harms of smoking and vaping on young children
with ASH Cymru. Find out what you can do as early years professionals, to communicate this awareness raising with the parents of the children in your setting.
Thursday 17th July
13:00 - 13:30 | Online
Free for Early Years Wales Members.
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.
| Tuesday 1st July, 13:30 - 14:30 | Book your place here | |||
Early Years Wales Fly a Kite
Join us for an outdoor celebration of movement, fun and family connection!
These Movement Champion events are designed for parents and carers to participate in playful movement together, and aims to showcase the range of support, activities, and opportunities available for families.
We will also be bringing lots of fun and free treats to the event for the children and their parents, such as a kite, and free kitbags
- 6th August | 10:30 - 12:30 | Bute Park, Cardiff
- 13th August | 10:30 - 12:30 | Margam Park, Neath Port Talbot
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. The topic of each meeting will be determined by you. No suggestion will be discounted, and they can raise in size and scope.
Next date:
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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:
| 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 | ||||
Early Years Wales member exclusive. We know how important funding is for your setting, so let's give it a boost! Watch Jo, Education Partnerships Manager for easyfundraising, demonstrate how easyfundraising works and provides top tips for supporter sign ups and making the most of the online fundraising platform.
Free to use, easyfundraising is trusted by over 14,000 nurseries, childminders, pre-schools and playgroups who have raised £1.5 million from parents, staff and their community's online shopping. For any settings not yet using easyfundraising as a way of fundraising for free, you can sign up here: www.easyfundraising.org.uk/early-years-wales
To view the webinar, please email [email protected]
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.
Click here for more information |
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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 | |