Work Matters: On Course

This morning half-day conference explores how to get parents more involved in their children's learning, how to engage parents, especially fathers, within the early years setting, and how to develop parents' understanding of the EYFS. Practical examples will be given of successfully building partnerships with parents. - London. Cost: from £169 plus VAT. Visit www.haymarketevents.com or call Lucy Kinnear on 020 8267 4011.

12 MAY - Outdoor Learning and Play

This dedicated training day from Nursery World, offering hands-on workshops, will help participants make their outdoor space an enabling environment that will facilitate effective outdoor learning and play. - Birmingham. Cost: from £274 plus VAT when booking before 25 March. Visit www.haymarketevents.com/conferenceDetail/388/outdoor-learning-play or call Lucy Kinnear on 0208 267 4011

25 MAY - What can we do to solve this problem? Conflict Resolution in Early years Settings

Participants in this Institute of Education course will look at how to recognise conflict situations as opportunities for pre-school children to learn personal, social and emotional skills, and ways to use language strategies to keep the focus on actions and feelings rather than people. By the end of the course practitioners will be able to describe the benefits of logical consequences and the negative implications of punishment. - London. Cost: £150. Visit www.ioe.ac.uk

9 JUNE - Ready, willing and able - developing capable, confident learners in our nurseries, children's centres and schools

At this conference at the Pen Green centre, eminent professor and author Carol Dweck will explore how we can help children to be all that they can be. Participants will also hear about Pen Green research projects including Children as Leaders of Their Own Learning. - Corby, Northamptonshire. Cost: £299 approx. Visit www.pengreen.org