Alliance Connect Roadshow: Babies and beyond
Alliance Connect Roadshow
Babies and beyond: discover the power of the first 1001 days
9.15am - 4pm, Monday 4 November 2024
Fountains Church, Bradford BD5 0BQ
Alliance members: £25 per person; Non-members: £50 per person
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In the 49ͼ¿â sector, we recognise that what happens during a child’s formative years impacts not only their early development, but their outcomes far into their future.
The first 1001 days – from conception to a child's second birthday – are a period of rapid growth and development: during this time, a child's brain forms over one million new neural connections every second. From building strong early attachments and having positive interactions from responsive adults, to being curious and confident to discover the world around them, these early experiences lay the foundation for future learning, behaviour and health.
The role of educators working with children from birth to two years can often be overlooked and branded as solely ‘care giving’ and not as ‘educating’. But we know that is not the case. That is why we are so excited our next in-person Alliance Connect Roadshow is dedicated to celebrating our youngest children, from babies and beyond, and the vital role that you play as educators in supporting this critical early development.
Your dedication, knowledge, and care help build strong foundations for lifelong learning and wellbeing. This event is a celebration of your commitment and a chance to further empower yourself with the latest research and best practice in the field.
Attendees will take part in inspiring and interactive workshops, led by our team of Alliance 49ͼ¿â experts, which will each focus on a key topic relating to caring for and educating our youngest children.
The event will also include inspirational keynote speakers Neil Leitch, CEO of the Early Years Alliance and Professor Sam Wass, professor of 49ͼ¿â neuroscience at the University of East London Baby Development Lab, and child psychologist in five series of the multi-award-winning Channel 4 show ‘The Secret Life of 4- and 5-Year-Olds'.
Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to enrich your professional journey and make a lasting impact on the children you care for.
Together, let's nurture the potential of every child from the very beginning!
Agenda
9.45am - 10.00am: Refreshments
10.00am - 10.10am: Alison Heseltine, Alliance 49ͼ¿â development manager and Connect Roadshow host will give an overview of the day's events
10.10am - 10.50am: Neil Leitch, Alliance CEO
10.50am - 11.15am: Refreshments and networking
11.15am - 12.45pm: Keynote speaker: Professor Sam Wass, Baby Development Lab at the University of East London - A blooming buzzing confusion – understanding recent neuroscience findings into how young brains develop and how young children experience the world differently to adults.
12.45pm - 1.30pm: Lunch and networking
1.30pm - 2.20pm: Practical seminar
2.25pm - 3.15pm: Practical seminar
3.15pm - 3.30pm: Refreshments
3.30pm - 4.00pm: Closing session - Richard Knight, Alliance 49ͼ¿â development manager - The guardians of play
Raffle Draw
TTS will be there with a range of resources that will relate to 'The power of play' Spotlight Collection
Practical seminars
As part of this exciting day, attendees will have the opportunity to attend both of our practical seminar sessions
Connect one: Storytelling– Sharing stories and rhymes to support early language –&²Ô²ú²õ±è;where will the adventure take us? Early years development manager Alison Heseltine
This session is dedicated to the joy of storytelling and rhymes, and how ealy years educators can use these to support children's early communication and language. Together we will take a storytelling journey into make believe worlds and discuss how we can develop supportive and practical approaches to engage children to become story tellers building their confidence and mastery of language.
Attendees will be immersed into a world of imagination and have the chance to become a storyteller themselves, where the only limit is that of their own creativity. We will be bringing out our inner child participating in silly rhymes and tongue twisters, whilst exploring the joy of sounds and words. All of this fun will be tied together with the key message around why it is important to support early communication, our role in that within 49ͼ¿â and how we extend this to the home learning environment, so the joy of stories and rhymes is spread far and wide
Connect two: Outdoor learning for under two's–&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Early years development officer Ruth Richardson
We often think about the outdoors being a place for children to run around and be physically active, but where does this leave our yougest children that are not yet as mobile? The outdoors has so much to offer children of all ages and we shouldn't forget about the babies and toddlers.
This session will outline the many benefits of being outdoors for children birth to two years, and consider ways toovercome challenges and barriers that eary years providers, and families, face in ensuring that our youngest children are given the same opportunities to explore the outdoors. We will consider how to create an enabling outdoor environment for our youngest children, and how to utilise what nature has to offer us when planning for the prime areas of learning.
Attendees at the Connect Roadshow in Leeds last year
