We are A Brighter Start: East London’s Stronger Practice Hub led by Sheringham Nursery School and Children’s Centre. Our partners are Koolkidze Ltd (St Barnabas Pre-School) and Honey’s Childcare.

The Stronger Practice Hub is funded by the Department for Education as part of their drive to improve quality within early years, ensuring all children have the best start in life.

The Early Years Stronger Practice Hubs programme launched in November 2022 and is supported by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) and the National Children’s Bureau (NCB). The government recently announced that they are extending funding for Stronger Practice Hubs until March 2029. We are one of 18 hubs across England. You can find out about all 18 hubs here.

As an Early Years Stronger Practice Hub we provide advice, share good practice and offer evidence-informed professional development for early years educators working with children from birth to 5 years old.

Find out more

If you would like to find out about the free support that is available for you and your setting please get in touch with us.
We work with all early years providers! If you are working in a private nursery, a maintained setting or you are a childminder and you are caring and educating children from birth to 4 – the Stronger Practice Hub is here for you!

Sign up to join our network

Find out more about the Early Years Stronger Practice Hubs from the DfE

Join our WhatsApp broadcast group

Save 0759 616 5918 in your contacts and send us a message to join

Email us

Email us on: abrighterstart@sheringham-nur.newham.sch.uk

What do we provide to early years educators?

The Hub supports settings to put the ‘best bets’ from research evidence into practice to make a difference to children’s learning, development and life chances. We do this by:

Sharing information and advice on evidence-informed approaches through newsletters, blogs, events, webinars and social media.

• Free in person showcase events at Sheringham Nursery School and partner settings: See evidence-informed strategies in action.
• Free webinars providing bite sized professional development. Find out about evidence-informed strategies that will make a difference to children’s outcomes.
• Free conferences and events: Receive professional development that will develop your practice and professional confidence.

Establishing and maintaining networks of early years educators, providers and organisations to support evidence-informed early years practice and knowledge sharing.

• Working with Local Authority Teams and other hubs such as English, Maths, Family and Teaching School Hubs to ensure we work together to address local need.
• Networking opportunities: Meet colleagues and receive free bespoke support, training and resources.
• Signposting to EEF/DfE resources and opportunities: find out what other free support and training could you access.

Acting as a point of contact for bespoke advice and to support access to professional development opportunities and evidence-informed programmes.

• Opportunities to take part in free evidence-informed training programmes: Access to free high-quality professional development.