Join thousands of early years professionals across nurseries in England and Scotland. Ask questions, share experiences and hear from people who understand the sector. Post with your name or completely anonymously, and never feel like you’re the only one dealing with it.
Pull up a chair. This is the staff room for everyone in early years, from apprentices to owners. Tell us who you are in one line: your role, your area and one thing you’re proud of this term. Then have a look round Ask a question and Wins of the week.
Three biting incidents in a week, the same little one each time. We’re shadowing and noting what happens before, but the families of the children bitten are understandably upset. How do you word the conversation with both families?
Autumn menu is up on the wall and the children chose the names. Leek and potato is now ‘dragon soup’. Sharing the four weeks in case it saves anyone a job.
We’re reviewing how we record sleep checks in the baby room. What do you use?
New shelves in the toddler room, finally. Everything at child height, everything with a picture label. We spent the afternoon deciding where the puzzles live.
Passed my Level 3 today. Four years of evenings and weekends. Very proud and very, very tired.
We take the setting phone on every outing, but staff say they need their own for emergencies too. How have other settings handled this, so it’s fair on staff and still keeps children safe?
There’s plenty more in your feed, from every space you follow.
We’ll show you around, one thing at a time: the spaces, asking a question anonymously, replies, and saving the good ones.
Starting in a moment5 parts of the community. Pick one to go straight there.
An example community: the names, posts and numbers are illustrative.
Talk it through with people who get it.
Managers, deputies, room leaders, practitioners, apprentices and cooks, from nurseries across England and Scotland, in one staff room.
Whatever your role, there’s a space full of people doing the same one, in settings like yours.
Our own team answer too, marked in green, so you always know when it’s us.
The community is organised into spaces, so the conversations that matter to you are easy to find. Connect with people in the same role, your local area, individual course communities and your own nursery team. You’ll automatically see the spaces relevant to you, and you can join others whenever you like.
Every space, your team’s own chats and anonymous posting come with every plan, including Free.
Some questions are easier without your name on them. You choose, every time you post.
We’ve got a new starter who’s brilliant with the children but keeps missing the handover. How do I raise it without knocking her confidence?
Ask a question and hear from people who understand it, including professionals in similar roles and the Hubba team.
We take the setting phone on every outing, but staff say they need their own for emergencies too. How have other settings handled this, so it’s fair on staff and still keeps children safe?
Rich text, images, reactions and replies, so a good answer can be a proper one.
New shelves in the toddler room, finally. Everything at child height, everything with a picture label. We spent the afternoon deciding where the puzzles live.
Save anything you want to come back to, and you’ll hear when someone replies.
You can see how many people are in the community right now, never who they are.
Our team can join the conversation too, clearly marked so you always know when it’s us.
Look at when it happens. For us it was always just before lunch, when everyone was hungry and the room was loud. Moving lunch ten minutes earlier stopped it.
The community works in your phone’s browser and in the Hubba Training app, for the question that comes up at pick-up.
If a post worries you, report it and Hubba’s team will look at it.
Managers share the templates, procedures and resources they use in their own settings. Download what helps, adapt it for yours, and recommend the ones worth passing on.
Two pages to plan your next steps for improvement.
Shared by a manager · Scotland
Ten-minute checks, with a column to sign.
Shared by a manager · England
What changes in the setting when it’s over 25 degrees.
Shared by a manager · Scotland
What staff can and can’t post, in plain words.
Shared by a manager · England
Six simple rules for the staff room. Short, clear and followed by everyone, including us.
People ask because they’re stuck. Help first, and share what’s worked for you.
Keep children and families private. If a story could identify someone, change the details.
Other members never see who posted anonymously. A number appears instead of your name.
See how many people are around, never who they are.
Share your own ideas, resources and experience. If something came from elsewhere, say so.
Our team joins conversations too, clearly marked in green, and follows the same rules as everyone else.
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