Sue Newman & Dr Kathryn Murray reveal how sound environments enhance brain development, learning & wellbeing in early years settings.

Sue Newman and Harriet Thomas of Boogie Mites. Boogie Mites offers Early Years families, practitioners and the wider community the knowledge, resources and confidence to harness the power of active music-making each and every day.

In this comprehensive course, Louise Mercieca explains how sugar affects children’s health (current and future), wellbeing, palate development and lifetime habits.

Superhero Play transforms a common classroom challenge into a powerful learning opportunity. Through expert guidance from early years consultant Tamsin Grimmer, you'll discover evidence-based approaches to weapon play, death concepts in play, and creating superhero-friendly environments.

This comprehensive course equips you with practical strategies to support all children's interests without gender bias while navigating potentially sensitive topics with confidence, ultimately enhancing your ability to create inclusive, developmentally appropriate learning spaces.

Essential training for early years professionals facing one of education's most sensitive challenges. This focused course delivers practical, age-appropriate strategies for communicating about death, recognising grief behaviours, and supporting children through loss experiences. Developed by early years expert Tamsin Grimmer, the training transforms uncertainty into professional confidence.
Participants will gain a developmental understanding of how children comprehend death, clear communication frameworks, and effective family partnership approaches. With dedicated reflection activities and comprehensive resources, this professional development opportunity ensures you're prepared to provide compassionate, informed support when children need it most.

This course will give you a great underpinning of knowledge about dyslexia, autism, ADHD and speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). Georgina uses her knowledge and experience as a SEND consultant to explain how to develop suitable activities for the children.

Susan explains in detail how to plan for a multidisciplinary meeting or conference, where you may have speech and language specialists, social workers and possibly the police.

In this interview, Susannah explains what level of speech and comprehension that we would expect from a typically developing two-year-old and how the adult child interaction can help those children who may have more challenges. Susannah has lots of different, practical techniques and strategies to help get children’s words moving and improve their communication, for both parents and practitioners.

The focus of this interview is on children reaching their full potential and how this is impacted by gender stereotyping, using information from Susie and Barbara’s book: Challenging Gender Stereotypes in the Early Years.

Barbara explains how children’s knowledge about gender typically develops over time. We go on to discuss how gender stereotyping could affect children’s mental health; practical strategies for improving pedagogy and how to support parents and the wider community.

We also find out about the Gender Friendly Nursery programmes that they set up in Glasgow and some gender-friendly pedagogy from around the world.

Master Sustained Shared Thinking in the Early Years with expert Kathy Brodie. Learn practical techniques to boost children's cognitive development, create thinking-rich environments, and transform everyday interactions into powerful learning opportunities. Ideal for all Early Years professionals.

In the interview, Tamsin explains the links between Professional Love and a loving pedagogy; Chapman and Campbell’s ‘love languages’; the role of touch in a loving pedagogy; the characteristics of a loving pedagogy and how we can achieve this in an Early Years setting.

In this interview, Tamsin explains what we mean by a loving pedagogy and how this links to professional practice. She goes into detail as to why this is important for professional practice and how this empowers children.

In this interview, Taneisha and I discuss the origins of the book and how important it is for children to see themselves represented in books. Taneisha also has great ideas for using the book with parents and in the Early Years setting.

In this interview, Tania Moloney explains how her background has influenced her philosophy and mission for creating Nurture in Nature. She explains how nature can instil a feeling of belonging and community, and the importance of having a connection to place. Tania describes how this incorporates all sorts of different pedagogies and approaches, which can be adapted for your Early Years setting.

In this Wellbeing Festival interview, Tanya Valentin explains how we can reconnect as a team, even if your setting has been open over lockdown. The unusual (and possibly challenging) working conditions could affect team cohesion during these strange times.

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In this special interview, we discuss the opportunities and benefits; the effects on families; concerns about 'falling behind' in academic work; teachers and the importance of maintaining relationships; the aims behind the Play First Summit that Sally Haughey and Teacher Tom are hosting on 20th to 24th July 2020

Thor Stibor runs a Timbernook in San Diego, California. A husband and father of one, Thor is an outdoors adventurist and long time educator in the fields of Adapted Physical Education and Health & Wellness.

Tina Stubbs is the creator of Life’s Little Bugs - a unique and fun award-winning series of books that will fast track your child to practice healthy habits without the tantrums and tears!

In this interview, we discuss what children's play is and what this means for children; challenge, risk and freedom in children's play environment; the role of the adult in children's play; having 'Sparkle Plus' to work well in childcare; the importance of good quality outdoor space; Play Iceland and the development of Fafunia; exploring what can be done together with children as the supportive adult.