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23 Jun 2025
✨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 online resources.
📥 Download free via our website!
#EarlyYears #UnderTwos
ALT Photo of a cute baby under peeking out from under a cream blanket with the HEART Midlands Early Years Stronger Practice Hub logo in the top left and text that says: Stronger Practice Insights - Working with Children under Two
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23 Jun 2025
[DOWNLOAD] Stronger Practice Insights: Working with Children under Two
strongerpracticehubs.org.uk/…
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HEART Midlands Early Years SPH retweeted
10 Jun 2025
👩👧@LGrocott_EY introduces our updated poster to help practitioners support young children’s transitions.
Read more: tinyurl.com/3kkedjzf
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HEART Midlands Early Years SPH retweeted
10 Jun 2025
💡 Download the poster and take a look at our other early years resources to support smooth transitions, including our professional development conversations cycle.
Download: tinyurl.com/4exsrm9m
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#transitions #bigsteps
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HEART Midlands Early Years SPH retweeted
1 May 2025
🆕 New resource drop!
Created by Happy Days Nurseries as part four of our 'Physical Activity' series, this resource is packed with ideas to keep little ones active and engaged.
📥 Check it out: zurl.co/sxqZr
#EarlyYears #PhysicalActivity #EYFS #FoundationYears
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HEART Midlands Early Years SPH retweeted
13 May 2025
🚨 New from the EEF:
The Early Years Evidence Store now includes:
✏️ Interactive writing
🧼 Self-care routines
Support literacy, wellbeing & safety with evidence-informed approaches: zurl.co/aJwvR
#EEF #EarlyYears #Education
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HEART Midlands Early Years SPH retweeted
15 May 2025
We agree with @KensingtonRoyal! Connecting with nature is so important & evidence shows spending quality time outdoors benefits children’s development from a young age. Natural Thinkers is a programme that helps more children connect with nature. For more: buff.ly/B75XzNX
12 May 2025
SPRING.
This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week, we are celebrating humanity’s longstanding connection to nature, and its capacity to inspire us and help us to heal and grow in mind, body and spirit.
As we confront the challenges of an increasingly complex and digital world, the importance of the connection between humanity and nature takes on even more significance.
The Mother Nature series is a reminder and reflection of the beauty and complexity of the human experience. It is a tribute to the lessons we can learn from nature, helping us to foster our own growth, strengthen our bonds with the world around us and each other. C
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HEART Midlands Early Years SPH retweeted
15 May 2025
Our Resource of the Term is… balls! 🏀⚽ From rolling to bouncing, balls are a brilliant way to give sensory seekers the input they need 🤩
Check out our favourite sensory-friendly ball activities! #SensoryPlay #OT #OccupationalTherapy
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20 May 2025
Explore themes from the EEF #EarlyYears Evidence Store with our 3-2-1 Quick Reads Series!
#3: Early #Maths 🧮
Mathematical understanding helps children make sense of the world around them, interpret situations, and solve problems in everyday life.
📄 birminghamearlyyearsnetworks…
ALT Graphic image promoting the 'Early Mathematics' download from our 3-2-1 Quick Reads series - helping practitioners explore the 6 key themes of the EEF's Early Years Evidence Store.
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HEART Midlands Early Years SPH retweeted
14 May 2025
Such wonderful insight from Helen Lumgair - we all want our stories to be treasured. 🤗💞 Watch this webinar for for free before June 3rd. >> loom.ly/d81p5aA <<
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HEART Midlands Early Years SPH retweeted
15 May 2025
✨💬 Early Talk Boost 💬✨
FREE face-to-face training for Birmingham practitioners!
#EarlyTalkBoost is a targeted intervention for 3 to 4-year-olds who need help with talking and understanding words.
PLACES AVAILABLE on training in May & June:
birminghamearlyyearsnetworks…
ALT Graphic image showing an Early Talk Boost resources pack with the Early Talk Boost logo. Also features logos of Birmingham City Council, Birmingham Family Hubs and Speech and Language UK
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HEART Midlands Early Years SPH retweeted
15 May 2025
Action for Climate – Early Years special webinar. Sign-up to build a climate action plan, with live demo of DfE’s Sustainability Support for Education platform. Free to sign-up, all education settings expected to have a climate action by 2025. Click here: zurl.co/RgkR8
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HEART Midlands Early Years SPH retweeted
14 May 2025
📣 Calling early years educators!
Are you looking for professional development opportunities?
We have several projects available to take part in, including .....
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HEART Midlands Early Years SPH retweeted
15 May 2025
One week to go until Herefordshire’s first celebration week for SEND families.
Herefordshire’s first ever Visible & Valued SEND Celebration Week will run from Thurs 22 to Weds 28 May & aims for SEND families to feel visible & valued in their community.
orlo.uk/Q6nFG
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HEART Midlands Early Years SPH retweeted
14 May 2025
We're launching an alumni network for anyone who has completed a Froebel Trust endorsed course. 🌳
Join for free & benefit from a range of exclusive benefits including two free masterclass webinars a year! ⭐️
froebel.org.uk/training-and-…
ALT Froebel person and tree logo with the words Froebel Trust Alumni Network in forest green font on a white background
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15 May 2025
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 🌳💚
ALT Graphic with a photo of Alison Hansen of Ally's House Childcare holding her certificate. Text on graphic says: coram pacey WEST MIDLANDS Childminder of the Year 2025. ALISON HANSEN - Ally's House Childcare
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HEART Midlands Early Years SPH retweeted
3 Apr 2025
“The daily maths lesson has not yet begun. These children are choosing to explore mathematical ideas through the manipulation of concrete resources.”
@TGResearchSch explains how manipulatives can support children’s growing mathematical knowledge.
researchschool.org.uk/tudor-…
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HEART Midlands Early Years SPH retweeted
2 Apr 2025
We story all day every day, to make sense of the world around us - if we can empower the littlest minds to understand and create their own stories, the world is their oyster 🦪 loom.ly/Kz8ylZg
#freewebinar #ecewebinar #cpdforteachers #talestoolkit #teachers #littleminds
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3 Apr 2025
📢✨ 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
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HEART Midlands Early Years SPH retweeted
24 Mar 2025
“Thoughtful investment of EYPP can drive lasting improvements to practice and maximise the chances that each child will benefit.”
@LGrocott_EY offers three tips for leaders to consider when planning and sustaining an Early Years Pupil Premium strategy.
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