This year's new-look show will offer a whopping total of 28 CPD-certified seminars over two days for the first time ever, delivered by some of the very best early years practitioners and leaders.
Free-to-access exhibitions and demonstrations by leading early years suppliers, interactive demonstrations from local nursery providers and suppliers, and informative presentations as part of the Live Theatre, will all be available, alongside the new Let's Talk Best Practice Forum, providing an opportunity for visitors to ask questions, share ideas, reflect, consolidate and receive advice and guidance from sector leaders and policy advisers.
EQUIPMENT
Speak to MOEducation representatives at the Show to find out more about their eco-friendly resources which focus on bringing the outdoors in and the indoors out. The company is supporting the charity Dandelion, creating jobs for people with disabilities from Romania, and will be running a free prize draw for attendees to enjoy their handmade products.
Exhibitors at the show this year also include Bitskit, Community Playthings, Cosy, Fabula Toys, Hope, KCS Early Years, Mangotree Kids, Outside Classroom Boards, The School Renovation Company, TTS Group, Yellow Door and YPO.
BOOKS
Anyone who signs up to Polylino during the Show will receive three months’ free access to the multilingual digital picturebook service.
Hodder Education and More to Books/More to Organising are among the other companies that are exhibiting.
CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT
Get 25 per cent off your first six months of the Essentials or Premium package when you visit the Famly stand at the Show.
Visit the eyworks stand to see how the platform could power up your childcare setting with a suite of software tools making it easier to run your business, and get three months free.
Companies including Blossom Educational, Nursery Story and Your Virtual Stockroom are also involved in the show this year.
TRAINING
Exhibitors include Best Practice Network, Riverside Cares and Riverside Training Company, and The Education People presents Threads of Success.
RECRUITMENT
Recruitment companies exhibiting this year include Childcare Marketing and tiney – CMA.
ORGANISATIONS
The National Deaf Children's Society is among the organisations at the exhibition this year.
NUTRITION AND HEALTH
Companies exhibiting their contribution to early years nutrition and health include apetito, McQueens Dairies, Oral Health Foundation and Nursery Kitchen.
CPD AT THE SHOW
The seminars and masterclasses at the Nursery World Show have always been a firm fixture of the CPD-certified programme.
This year will be no exception, but the programme has had a shake-up, with new speakers, new formats and even more fascinating and topical subjects up for discussion.
MASTERCLASSES
On Friday, a panel including Dr Julian Grenier CBE, head teacher at Sheringham Nursery School and Children's Centre, international early childhood consultant Sue Asquith and Wendy Ratcliff HMI will discuss how best to support children to reach their full potential.
The masterclass will focus on moving forward from Covid-19, using assessment to truly support individual needs, weaving your community into your curriculum, and the cultural capital of language.
The Masterclass will run from 9.45am-12.45pm, 3 February.
Saturday's masterclass will examine whether a setting's curriculum ties in with its ethos. The session will unpick where the curriculum sits in an early years setting, how an entire team is empowered to work to the same vision and how this canbe effectively shared with families, the community and Ofsted.
Contributors will include Pennie Akehurst, managing director of Early Years Fundamentals, early years teacher, setting manager, writer and editor Adam Marycz, Gemma Thomas-Bohr, creator of Pure Imaginations with Gemma, and Busy Bees’ lead academic and research developer Jenny Shaw.
The Masterclass will run from 9.45am-12.45pm, 4 February.
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
The first brand-new Panel Discussion will take place at the Nursery World Show on Friday, and will focus on staffing the sector.
A panel including Kelly Hill, chief executive of The Early Years Company, Paint Pots Nurseries ambassador David Wright, and Adam Vasco, director of diversity and inclusion at the University of Wolverhampton will consider issues of recruitment and retention, fair pay, funding and the future of qualifications. The Panel Discussion will run from 1.30pm-3.00pm, 3 February.
On Saturday, a panel featuring Ben Kingston-Hughes, managing director of Inspired Children, ECE consultant Jan Dubiel, independent consultant, author and trainer Dr Sue Allingham, Dr Charlotte Dunster-Page, principal clinical psychologist and founder of Born to Bond CIC, and senior lecturer in early childhood at Bath Spa University Dr Sharon Colilles, will discuss whether playing is the same as learning and whether the terminology matters.
The event will consider what play and learning really mean in the early years, how playful interactions impact children and who has the right to play.
The Panel Discussion will run from 1.30pm-3.00pm, 4 February.
SEMINARS
The significantly expanded seminar programme will offer 28 CPD-certified sessions over the two days. Highlights will include an interactive seminar on the role of gender in shaping professional identity and the competing arguments for engaging more men in the profession, run by Dr Shaddai Tembo.
Wendy Ratcliff HMI, Ofsted's principal officer for early education policy, will talk about why Ofsted has chosen to have a specific focus on the early years in its strategy for the next five years.
Meanwhile, Pennie Akehurst will examine key themes that appear with frequency across the range of inspection judgements.
Sue Asquith will examine the foundations of communication and language and links to cultural capital, and Dr Julian Grenier CBE will discuss creating a curriculum.
Find out more and access the full programme: at nurseryworldshow.com
Special features
Early Years Resources and Learning Zone, sponsored by TTS
Immerse yourself in the world of TTS and be the first to get hands-on with brand new resources for 2023. Educational and product experts will be on hand to answer any questions and showcase the endless possibilities TTS resources can offer.
The Early Years Resources and Learning Zone also offers free and informative educational blogs, videos and downloads, along with a range of exclusive TTS discounts.
Live Theatre
Free presentations in the Live Theatre will be delivered by leading suppliers and advocates. Watch as they share advice on the latest resources and how they can be used to support your early years provision. Here, you will also discover informative, 30-minute sessions from the Nursery World Show's top exhibitors, all free to attend on both days. Representatives from TTS, Early Excellence, Famly, NCFE and Redwing Solutions will all be presenting on topics at the heart of early years.
Let's Talk Best Practice Forum
A brand-new resource for all visitors this year, providing an opportunity to ask questions, share ideas, reflect, consolidate and receive advice and guidance from sector leaders and policy advisers.
Organisations involved include the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY) and the Early Years Alliance, the largest and most representative early years membership organisation in England.
