Who We Are

 

Bloomsbury Nursery School, together with Castle Vale Nursery School,  Norton Hall Children and Family Centre & Weoley Castle Nursery School, form the HEART Midlands  Early Years Stronger Practice Hub,  supporting early years setting and childminders to address the impact of Covid-19 on our youngest children (0-4 years), by sharing information and advice on evidence-based approaches, and establishing local networks to share knowledge and effective practice.

An exciting new partnership, working collaboratively with Birmingham Local Authority, BEYN and all 27 Maintained Nursery Schools to continue to build on and strengthen our existing support for early years within Birmingham and beyond. 

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Heart Midlands Stronger Practice Hub 

The Stronger Practice Hubs programme is part of the DfE’s Early Years Education COVID-19 Recovery Package. 

Launched in November 2022 and supported by the Education Endowment Foundation (EFF) and the National Children’s Bureau, the programme aims to support settings to address the impact of the pandemic on young children by sharing effective practice and building lasting local networks.

Early years Stronger Practice Hubs will:

• provide advice

• share good practice, and 

• offer evidence-based professional development for early years practitioners. 

Funded by:

What’s involved?

Early years stronger practice hubs will be funded for 2 years (until late 2024).

We will support other nurseries and childminders in their area to adopt evidence-based practice improvements by:

• Building on and strengthening local networks of early years educators to share knowledge and effective practice

• proactively sharing information and advice on evidence-based approaches - for example, through newsletters, blogs and social media

• acting as a point of contact for bespoke advice and signposting to other funded support

• working with the EFF to select evidence-based programmes to fund and make available to nurseries and childminders.
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