Workshops focused on business, wellbeing, and sector leadership.

🧑‍🏫 Workshop 1: Panel discussion around school readiness

⏰ 10.55AM - 11.40AM

Host: Angelica Celinska

Panel : Jan Dubiel, Dr. Sue Allingham, Oliver Reddit & Helen Edwards

Exploring what school readiness means and why there is disparity in peoples understanding.

🧑‍🏫 Workshop 2: Behaviour that challenges

⏰ 11.45AM - 12.30PM

Speaker: Oliver Redditt and Mandy Richardson

Oliver and Mandy will explore how to guide your team through behaviours from children that challenge them.

🎙️ Workshop 3: Confident Communication (ShREC Approach in practice)

⏰ 1.30PM - 2.15PM

Speaker: Stephanie Hammond

Become empowered practitioners to have confident and positive interactions with children, making informed decisions and providing clear strategies practitioners can use the very next day.  

This training is grounded in robust evidence informed EEF research about early language development and communication-supportive practice. ShREC translates evidence into what actually works in everyday early years settings. 

🎙️ Workshop 4: Leadership and Accountability

⏰ 1.30PM - 2.15PM

Speaker: Tom Richardson

Join Tom as he shares how to empower leaders to take accountability.

Inspiration for truely inclusive practice

🥦 Workshop 1: Hidden Sensory Differences

⏰ 10.55AM - 11.40AM

Speaker: Joanna Grace
Society is becoming more aware of some common sensory differences experienced by neurodivergent people, for example tactile differences - being bothered by labels in clothes, or auditory differences - hating the sound of hand dyers, but there remain a number of common hidden sensory differences that we are less aware of but which have as much impact on the wellbeing and engagement of autistic, and other neurodivergent, people. 

In this seminar Dr Jo Grace will explore the roots of sensory differences and highlight the significance of some of the hidden sensory differences to how we support young neurodivergent people in our settings.

🧸 Workshop 2: Creative Babies

⏰ 11.45AM - 12.30PM

Speaker: Sarah Hood
Get creative in an interactive art session designed for Babies and Toddlers.

🌲 Workshop 3: Developmental Movement Play

⏰ 1.30PM - 2.15PM

Speaker: Mandy Richardson
Mandy will explore the link between communication and physical skills as we discover how children learn through multi-sensory play.

🌲 Workshop 4: Moving the box

⏰ 2.20PM - 3.05PM

Speaker: Jan Dubiel Jan explains how to being aware of your own experiences and self perspective can shape how you think about children. Being aware of this can help you to understand a child’s need and perspective differently and be more effective in supporting them to achieve positive GLD’s.

Insights and practical tools to elevate your practice with invisible children.

🎈 Workshop 1: Once upon a time in Cornwall…..

⏰ 10.55AM - 11.40AM

Speaker: James Kenny
Join James and Jasper the Dragon in this interactive workshop. Together, we'll discuss storytelling for younger audiences, how to engage them and why games and stories are so important for development (and why we should never stop listening  to them, no matter how old we are!)

Expect fun activities, puppetry, Cornish tales and more!

🧠 Workshop 2: Permission to notice

⏰ 11.45AM - 12.30PM

Speaker: Karl Fice-Thomson A reflective and practical workshop exploring how slowing down, shaping the environment, and trusting professional judgement can help children who are often overlooked begin to thrive. Grounded in real practice from Big F-T Shack and The Community Classroom, this session invites educators to rethink engagement, regulation, and curiosity in Early Years settings.

Workshop 3: Home is where the heart is.

⏰ 1.30PM - 2.15PM

Speaker: Alice Sharp Discover how reimagining the traditional home corner can create richer opportunities for children to develop connection, creativity, communication and the skills they need for the future. Explore practical ways to use thoughtful environments, meaningful resources and playful interactions to build children’s confidence, wellbeing and core strengths.

Workshop 4: Circle of friendship

⏰ 2.20PM - 3.05PM

Speaker: ‍Marie Richardson Explore practical, playful ways to reach the child who can sometimes remain at the edge of the group, helping them to feel safe, connected, valued and able to participate. Through sensory play, stories, creativity and shared experiences, discover how to support emotional wellbeing, communication, executive functioning and a genuine sense of belonging