Be able to provide environments within the work setting that support and extend children’s development and learning in their early years
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- Laser reading text: 'An enabling environment'
- 'EYFS Statutory Framework' from the Department for Education.
- ‘Learning environments’ on the Birth to 5 Matters
- ‘My space: Creating enabling environments for young children’ from Oxfordshire County Council
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson's presentation on 'Environmental issues'.
- Click to launch this lesson's presentation on 'Monitoring the environment'.
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click this icon to the left to visit the website of an online presentation from the Freeplay Network. It gives examples of great outdoor play areas as well as their underlying design principles. The examples show how design of the outdoor area can help to support children’s physical play and exercise.
- Spend time with an experienced practitioner finding out how they use their observations to inform planning. Watch for ways in which they use their knowledge of their own key children and general child development to extend children’s play.
- Find out more about sensory play. Look at this webpage from Early Years Resources that looks at ‘Sensory play in the early years’.
- This article from the Twinkl website is by Val Clarke and looks at ‘What are the characteristics of an enabling environment within the EYFS.
- The Twinkl website also contains this port on ‘What are enabling environments EYFS?’.
- This article on the Early Education website looks at ‘Enabling environments and their impact on children’s learning’.
- Think And Challenge
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