Welcome to our Lewisham Early Years Providers training page.

Whether it’s developing people’s skills and knowledge through training or bringing colleagues together at an event, our teams deliver training and events that reflect your current needs.

Early Years Autumn Term 2025 Training

Those highlighted below are available to book on this site, we have also added additional training sessions that we highly recommend.

Please note that there will be more sessions added to the programme below.

Boom! Boom! Shake the Room! Playing with Sounds

(face to face)

BOOKING NOW CLOSED

-Thursday 9th October
-9:30-12:00pm
-Civic Suite, Catford SE6 4RU
-For Practitioners working with 3 and 4 year olds

This course explores early phonics teaching and learning and discusses how Phase One of Sounds and Letters lays the foundations of children’s early literacy development. You will come away with fun ways to embed phonics skills into your setting and make a fun part of children's everyday learning.

PVI SENCO Network and Professional Development Session

 (face to face)

 -Tuesday 4th November
-9:30am-2:30pm
-Civic Suite, Catford SE6 4RU
-For PVI SENCO's

Updates, information and professional development for SENCO’s working in nurseries. This forum will also provide opportunities to hear from professionals involved with SEND, as well as other SENCOs – sharing good practice. This session will include a networking lunch session from 1.00-2.30pm. This session is for your named SENCO or any members of staff who are responsible for supporting SEND across your setting.  

Designing Ambitious Curriculum - London South Early Years Stronger Practice Hub
PART 1

(face to face)

-Wednesday 12th November
-9:00am-12:00pm
-Civic Suite, Catford SE6
-All Early Years Practitioner working with 0-5 Year Olds

Part 1 - This first session about curriculum design will help practitioners build an understanding of what the sector recommendations are and how to go about ensuring their own curriculum is benefitting the children. We will look at the prime areas specifically and will look more closely at the specific areas in part 2.

Designing Ambitious Curriculum - London South Early Years Stronger Practice Hub
PART 2

(face to face)

-Wednesday 26th November
-9:00am-12:00pm
-Civic Suite, Catford SE6
-All Early Years Practitioners working with 0-5 Year Olds

Part 2 - This second session about curriculum is designed to build your confidence around the curriculum choices you make. We will delve deeper into the Best Start in life research reviews to help support our curriculum planning. This session will help those shaping the curriculum in their setting to adjust or create their curriculum depending on where you are on your curriculum journey. We will look at the best start in life part 3 &4 to help us in planning our curriculum with a focus on the specific areas.

EYFS Leaders in Schools Network Meeting

(virtual)

-Tuesday 18th November
-4:00pm-5:00pm
-Zoom
-For EYFS Leaders in Schools

The EYFS Leaders in schools Network Meeting will provide an update on the latest local and national policy relating to the EYFS framework, Ofsted regulations and current initiatives.

Early Years Provider Briefing

(virtual)

-Wednesday 19th November
-10:00am-11:30am or 7:00pm-8:30pm
-Zoom
-PVI Managers and Childminders

The Early Years Provider Briefing will provide an update on the latest local and national policy relating to the EYFS framework, Ofsted regulations and current initiatives as well as updates around funding.

Let's Get Physical! Physical Development with under 2's

(face to face)

-Thursday 20th November
-9:30am-12:00pm
-Civic Suite, Catford SE6
-Early Years Practitioners working with under 2's

This is an opportunity for baby room practitioners to expand their knowledge and practice around the physical development of under two year olds. There will be a focus on EYFS, exploring core strength and co-ordination, gross and fine motor skills.  Participants will be actively involved in creating activities that promote physical development both inside and out. You will leave the session with lots of ideas on how to support our youngest children with their physical development.

PVI DSL Network Meeting

(virtual)

 

-Tuesday 9th December 
-10:00am-11:30am
-Microsoft Teams
-PVI Managers/DSLs

This session offers updates, insights, and opportunities to connect with fellow DSLs and safeguarding professionals—sharing best practices and strengthening our collective approach to child protection. Guest speakers include Margaret Mansfield (Designated Nurse for Safeguarding) and Dr. Abimbola Adeyemi (Consultant Community Paediatrician) - they will present the Local Safeguarding Children Partnership (LSCP) Bruising Protocol for Non-Independently Mobile Infants and Children—a crucial framework for early identification and response to potential safeguarding concerns. We will also discover two programmes (Juniper and HENRY) from Family Hubs that are both designed to support the health, wellbeing, and development of young children and their families.

Additional Training Session

London South Early Years - Stronger Practice Hubs

Executive Function-Creating Challenge Webinar by 

-Bookings now closed

-Wednesday 1st October

12:30pm

7pm

-Thursday 2nd October 

3:45pm

In this webinar, Daniela will take you through the approach of Creating Challenge of one of the approaches that effectively supports developing Executive Function Skills. All those settings who attend will be entered into a raffle to receive resources to aid implementation. 

Please email EYSPH@londonsouthtsh.org should you require any further information.

Below are the booking links for the sessions.

1/10/2025 12:30pm

https://forms.gle/rr37kDhya4VqL2gg7

1/10/2025 7pm

https://forms.gle/UdwdS3ChAQVyf6zr9

2/10/2025 3:45pm

https://forms.gle/mrdfRjvBczrdk4H1A

Events

Title Occurences  
Boom! Boom! Shake the Room! Playing with sounds (face to face) 0 in 0 locations View & Book
Designing An Ambitious Curriculum LSEYSPH - Part 1 (face to face) 1 in 1 locations View & Book
Designing An Ambitious Curriculum LSEYSPH Part 2 (face to face) 1 in 1 locations View & Book
Early Years Provider Briefing - (virtual) 2 in 1 locations View & Book
EYFS Leaders in Schools Network Meeting - (virtual) 1 in 1 locations View & Book
Let’s get physical! Physical development with under 2s - (face to face) 1 in 1 locations View & Book
PVI DSL Network Meeting - (virtual) 1 in 1 locations View & Book
PVI SENCO Network and Professional Development Session - (face to face) 1 in 1 locations View & Book