Network Event
Welcome
Here is a brief notice about professional formation events coming up in Autumn 2025 and Spring 2026; we will have more information and registration here by September '25. In the meantime you can email
- Thursday 9th October 2025: an online discussion 'Listening in Practice' organised by our London Network group: details and registration below;
- Saturday 11th October 2025: we will be participating in the NEU early years conference at Hamilton House, London, presenting a focus session 'Reclaiming Quality;'
- November 2025: online presentation by an educator of Reggio Emilia's Preschools - Wed 12th or Thursday 13th 4pm tbc;
- December 2025: online presentation: Pedagogical Characteristics for An Environment of Enquiry - Wed 10th or Thursday 11th tbc;
- Saturday 14th February 2026: National Conference at Hamilton House, London, in collaboration with NEU: The Wonder of Learning - Principles and Practice of Reggio Emilia's Preschools presented by an educator from the preschools of Reggio Emilia, with additional example of evolving Reggio-aligned praxis in a UK Nursery;
- April 19th - 26th 2026: Reggio Study Group - in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Registration details soon (places limited).
Centres are showing great enthusiasm to connect and grow, and we will be offering seminars, events and exchanges to maximise the potential of these times.
If you are interested in discussing bespoke professional development possibilities for your centre please get in touch.
Go HERE if you want to read about past events, presentations seminars.
London ReFocus Open Meeting
Continuing our theme ‘Curious Adults, Curious Children’, This open meeting will give a further chance to hear different perspectives on democracy in early childhood education, both in theory and practice focusing on:
- What is democracy?
- How can democracy manifest itself in early childhood education?
Diana will share theory and research by using the voices and different perspectives of educators on the necessary conditions for democratic practices in the early years.
Cath with Nisha will share Rowland Hill’s project: ‘Framing the learning: a democratic exploration using photography and film with young children and their families ’.
As Carlina Rinaldi states in ‘In Dialogue with Reggio Emilia’
“…we must not forget how closely the school is related to the society in which it is situated’. ‘There is the recurring question of whether the school is limited to transmitting culture or can be (aspire to) a place where culture is constructed and democracy is lived”.
| Date | Thursday 20th June 2019 |
| Price | £10 |
| Presenters | Cath Rive (artist) with Nisha Lingam (Headteacher of Rowland Hill Nursery School) and Diana Sousa (UCL Institute of Education). |
| Please Note: |
How to get to the meeting Early booking recommended as places are limited. |
| Times | Arrive 4:30pm for 4.45pm start, with tour of the nursery from 6.15pm approx. |
| Location/Map | Tottenham, London |
This network meeting is for Sightlines members involved in the London ReFocus ‘Visual Metaphor’ project. This project focuses on noticing children’s thinking processes and deepening children’s learning through collaborative reflection and enquiry.
Places are free for Sightlines members, and are open to those who attended the London ReFocus project launch on 23rdJanuary 2020 (you will have a password from the steering group.)
Location:
Room 790, UCL Institute of Education https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/contact-ioe
For further information, contact:
Kate Cowan
Solveig Morris
Joy Dahl
| Date | Thursday 5th March 2020 |
| Available places | 18 |
| Please Note: | LOGIN module is in the green column, page left. |
| Times | 4.30 - 6 |
| Location/Map | Institute of Education, London |
