Being Active, Brave & Connected in the Early Years (Casa Hotel, C'field)

Purpose and intention:

· to enable EY sector workforce to meet, in-person,

· to raise awareness of the impacts of being more active, developing a sense of safe risk and challenge, and connecting has on young children's holistic development,

· to promote leading change with a lense of trust and capability, to 'lead from where you are' through example, connections and knowing how today's learning progresses to tomorrow,

· to celebrate and challenge descriptions and attitudes towards babies, toddlers and preschool children's desire to roam and be active in play.

Event tickets for Derbyshire EY providers are significantly subsidised by Early Years professional development monies (DfE).

Keynote

Tamsin Grimmer is an author, consultant and lecturer who has a wealth of experience within early childhood and is a true advocate for adopting a loving pedagogy.

Learning to behave - Supporting our superheroes!

Young children are learning to behave just as they are learning other skills in early childhood. In this keynote, Tamsin will explore this concept linking in with superhero play and consider how we can develop children's empathy, can-do attitude, and confidence through embracing this active play.

Activities

Throughout the day we will be showcasing Derbyshire EY practice and projects, spotlighting learning together, and activities to share your views and celebrating reading for pleasure with a prize draw.

Workshops

Everyone can attend 2 workshops from the exhilarating line up:

Led by Jabadao practitioners, this workshop will focus on early development (0-3 years) and will challenge your perceptions of physical development and ignite your passion for child-led Movement Play as a powerful tool for holistic child development.

Led by Hannah Knowles, this workshop will focus on Early Years providers (0-5 years) and how you can enliven the ways you bring knowledge into action. Modern life is exhausting. If you’re not careful it can grind you and your team down into 'average mode'. When the world’s doing its worst it’s doubly important that you know how to be at your best! THE ART OF BEING BRILLIANT helps you shine by reconnecting you with you. We use cutting edge research but have surgically removed the big words and replaced them with simple, do-able principles that are applicable at work and home. https://www.artofbrilliance.co.uk/

Led by Sarah Cummins, this workshop will focus on how any and all Early Years provision (0-5 years) can be influenced by Montessori principles and how it can work with your current ethos.

About the guest experts:

Tamsin Grimmer

Tamsin Grimmer is a director of Linden Learning, an associate of Early Education, Principal Lecturer at Norland College and an Emotion Coaching Practitioner for Emotion Coaching UK. She has a wealth of experience supporting Early Years Teachers and educators. She is passionate about young children’s learning and believes that all children deserve educators who are inspiring, dynamic, reflective and loving. Tamsin was a member of the Inclusion and Equalities working party for the Birth to Five Matters materials and has written several books aimed at educators and is a true advocate for adopting a loving pedagogy.

www.tamsingrimmer.com

on X @tamsingrimmer, Facebook TamsinEarlyYearsConsultancy (page),

YouTube Early Years Consultancy (Tamsin Grimmer), also on LinkedIn

Jabadao is a UK charity, established in 1985 to develop collaborative projects pairing somatic movement specialists with education and health organisations, to create embodied approaches to learning and health.

Jabadao team members combine developmental movement knowledge, with strong practice in play-based movement and body work techniques. The training team is led by Penny Greenland MBE, founder of Jabadao.

The practitioner team are all movers, as well as teachers and researchers. We play to find out about the value of play; as well as undertaking action research and collaborative investigations with early years and special school partners. We model movement play techniques, as movement players ourselves.

https://www.jabadao.org/

Hannah knowles

Hannah loves nothing more than engaging and inspiring individuals to realise their full potential. Before joining Art of Brilliance, Hannah spent a number of years implementing whole school wellbeing programmes. She now delivers workshops and keynotes across the spectrum of Art of Brilliance clients; kids, teenagers, adults, businesses, NHS . . .

Hannah is on a mission. Be it an individual, school or business setting, she comes armed with strategies and insights that will help you thrive. She knows that life is busy, so she is all about giving short, practical tips that won’t take up any more of your time, in fact they might just help you save time. Beneath it all, Hannah is a realist. She realises that she can’t change the world, but she might be able to help you change YOUR world. Whatever your age and circumstances, Hannah wants to help you inch closer to your ideal you.

[email protected] , Instagram @aob_hannah, X @aob_hannah, also on LinkedIn

Sarah Cummins

Sarah has been an education and parent consultant and mentor since 2019 and previously worked in a variety of education settings as a teacher, senior leader and headteacher.

Sarah is also a senior lecturer in teacher training at Leeds Trinity University and currently serves as the chairperson for the Montessori Society UK and an executive committee member of OMEP UK. Sarah is passionate about her work for children and believes that children are born with a desire to learn and interact with the world, and it is our job, as the adults, to meet their needs and to provide opportunities for them to explore. www.sarahcummins.com

Timings:

9:00 arrival, showcase marketplace - open all day

9:20 - 10:20 Start and Keynote with Tamsin

10:40 – 12:00 First workshop option

12:10 - ‘Come play with me!’ experiential mini session

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:40 – 15:00 Second workshop option

15:20 – 16:00 Leading learning activity and Endnote with Tamsin

Conference Conduct

DO attend the allocated activities, the numbers per group will be limited and managed so we are unable to accommodate unexpected changes.

DO be respectful of each other’s viewpoints and opportunities to share learning.

DO NOT record the event in either audio or video. Note, by registering for Being Active, Brave, and Connected in the Early Years Conference you agree to allow any photographs or videos taken by the official event photographer and videographer at the conference to be used in publicity materials by Derbyshire County Council.

IMPORTANT! for all courses please read.

Please note that one ticket purchased equates to one participant attending, NOT one setting.

Please DO NOT attend if you have not purchased a ticket.

When booking your ticket, please ensure your correct name and email address is accurately inputted when Eventbrite asks you to enter the details for ‘Ticket 1’ as this is where all details and possibley handouts will be sent.

If another delegate will be attending instead of those originally booked on, please amend this on Eventbrite, but if this is short notice, please email [email protected] so we can amend our register before the course begins.

Booking and Cancellation Policy:

Places can still be cancelled on Eventbrite, with refunds offered, up to 30 days prior to the course/event taking place if you know that you are unable to attend. Please be aware that the amount refunded will be the ticket price minus the Eventbrite booking fee. This fee varies depending on course price.

If you need to cancel your place on ANY course, within 30 days of the course starting, please email [email protected] so we can amend our register, and possibly offer the place to another person should there be a waiting list.

*Unfortunately, we are unable to offer any refund if you cancel a place after the 30 days cancellation offer has ended.

Non-Attendance: If a delegate does not attend, including FREE training, and we have not been informed, this will be noted and we may get in touch with you about future bookings. To ensure the Early Years Team are able to continue to offer subsidised training and sometimes free training, we ask you to please be respectful of this. We often have waiting lists, and non-attendance prevents others from attending.

Unfortunately, we may have to consider charging a nominal fee for FREE courses and increasing our very competitive prices on all other training if this continues to be an issue.

Thank you for your support in this matter as this will enable us to continue to offer a wide range of training opportunities at a competitive price for all.

Please email [email protected] for any further information.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Casa Hotel and Cocina Restaurant, Lockoford Lane, Chesterfield, United Kingdom