Enabling Environment
The environment plays a key role in supporting and extending children's development and learning. Enabling environments encourage babies and young children to play because they feel relaxed, comfortable and 'at home' in them. When children feel emotionally safe and secure they are able to explore and find out about the place they are in and the things they can see, touch, manoeuvre or manipulate.
Core experiences for https://thehub.walthamforest.gov.uk/tags/early-years children
Children having access to high-quality play and first-hand experiences supports their learning in a number of ways. It is not just through the adult-lead or formal group activities, but also includes children’s natural encounter with the world. In particular it is argued that ‘All aspects of development and learning in young children are interlinked, and children are born and blessed with brains and bodies which are ready to learn and move in increasingly complex and co-ordinated ways, given favourable conditions’ Kate Greenaway nursery and children’s centre, 2009.
For this reason, when looking at core experiences the nursery stresses the importance of supportive adults who are tuned in as to when it is most appropriate to join in, the child’s play to extend their ideas, new skills or concepts. As part of this consideration also the needs of more outgoing children who may find questioning, communicative and stimulating adults as interfering, rather than an aid to learning is examined.
Download the core experience booklet below.
Below are a sample of some of the areas covered:
- Block Play
- Literature and books
- Emergent writing and book-making
- Malleable materials
- Cookery
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