Early Education

Including and supporting all children: join us in Belfast on the 25 August 2026 for our Northern Ireland conference, with speakers Tamsin Grimmer and Dominic Gunn. Find more information and book your place via: https://ow.ly/OBxm50YWAI6

South Yorkshire branch - Summer Conference - 20th June 2026

Come along and learn hands-on strategies to support talk and language, make stories come alive through play and develop ways to include all languages

https://ow.ly/PRjo50YXEw2

It's national this week, so we'd like to thank all the volunteers who keep our local branches running around the UK. Every year they organise dozens of events for colleagues to come together to network and learn from amazing speakers and each other. Want to know more and get involved?
https://early-education.org.uk/branches/

Darlington and Durham Branch - 16th June 2026 - 16:00 – 17:30

We will look at a selection of brilliant books that can be used to introduce children to our amazing, wild, British animals alongside engaging, usable activities.

https://ow.ly/1KRs50YR1c3

London branch - 1st July 2026 - AGM & A SPACE to Flourish – Encounters with charcoal

The ‘Supporting Pedagogy, Arts and Creativity Project (SPACE) aims to improve children’s school readiness through a focus on supporting creativity and the arts.

https://ow.ly/G0ec50Z39eq

Bristol branch event - SPACE to Flourish - 13th June 2026 - School of Education, Bristol University.

Echo and Early Education are delighted to be hosting Debi Keyte-Hartland to lead this engaging and thought provoking CPD session as the second event of our 2026 programme.

Find out more and book at: https://ow.ly/OIcI50YyxFR

"When you’re reading to a child, you’re creating the apparatus of happiness" says Frank Cottrell Boyce in the latest Early Education Journal, out now, celebrating the National Year of Reading. Edited by Professor Dame Cathy Nutbrown, with other articles by Fufy Demissie and Vic Menzies, Alison Rees Edwards and Peter Hannon.
https://app.sheepcrm.com/early-education/journal/109/

Reflections on the proposed CMA review of the "childcare market" in a system where increased investment, lack of affordability, underfunding and low pay are currently endemic:

Competition and Markets Authority asked to review "childcare market" - Early Education Early Education's Chief Executive reflects on Bridget Phillipson's requested CMA review of the "childcare market"

Aberdeen branch - 2nd June 2026 - 6:30pm - Nourishing Ourselves with Slow Pedagogy

Step away from the classroom and the "to-do" lists for an evening dedicated to your own well-being and professional inspiration.

https://ow.ly/Yg5s50YZ3b2