Enabling Environments in the Early Years
Making provision for high quality and challenging learning experiences in early years settings
1st Edition
Published on 21. May 2012
65 pages
978-1-907241-47-5 (ISBN)
Description
This title focuses on how to ensure your setting's physical space and equipment provides the most challenging and interesting environment for children in your care. This book covers: Assessing and improving the learning environment, making the most of your outdoor space and inclusive settings.
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Enabling Environments in the Early Years
Making Provision for High Quality and Challenging Learning Experiences in Early Years Settings
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Why is the environment important in supporting children's learning?
- What is an enabling environment in the early years?
- Why is the environment so important?
- The Early Years Foundation Stage
- How the other principles of the EYFS link to the Enabling Environment
- Auditing your setting's current provision
- The environment and the Self Evaluation Form
- Audit of current provision
- General learning environment checklist
- Indoor environment checklist
- Outdoor environment checklist
- Restricted or no outdoor space checklist
- Equality of opportunity checklist
- Diversity checklist
- Policies and procedures checklist
- SWOT analysis
- Examples from real settings
- The indoor environment
- An environment that meets each child's basic needs
- Utilising space
- Maximising your corridors
- Storage
- Health and safety
- Displays
- Planned and unplanned changes to the environment
- Supporting parents to develop enabling home environments
- The six areas of learning indoors
- The outdoor environment
- Freedom and space
- Staff deployment and ratios
- The weather
- Accessibility
- Promoting outdoor play to staff and parents
- Storage
- Risk taking and safety
- Small outdoor space
- No outdoor space
- Sustainability
- Boundaries
- Large play equipment
- Dens
- Outdoor role play
- Babies outdoors
- The six areas of learning outdoors
- The emotional environment
- Why focus on the emotional environment?
- Welcomes
- Meet and greet
- Photographs and names
- Staff and key workers
- Supporting positive behaviour
- Reflecting diversity
- Making choices and following interests
- Valuing the children
- Personal space
- Celebrating effort and achievement
- Routines
- Developing independence
- Supporting feelings
- Developing the environment
- Making changes
- Skills audit
- Researching other settings
- Sample policies and procedures
- Free flow policy
- The learning environment policy
- Risk assessments
- Books and websites
- Acknowledgements
