- Use your knowledge of the EYFS to provide rich sensory experiences that stimulate curiosity and investigation and enable children to make progress in all areas of Learning and Development.
- Help children to feel secure and confident to tackle new challenges by building on what they already know and can do.
- Help children to make sense of their experiences by providing a commentary on what they do and are achieving.
- Be clear about the purposes of play and other activities. Provide well-planned play experiences that catch children’s interest and through which they can make progress and achieve things.
- Value children’s spontaneous play and make effective use of unexpected opportunities for children’s learning that arise from their play, everyday events and routines.
- Provide activities that engage the children’s interests to motivate them and sustain their learning, for example, by setting up role-play areas that reflect the children’s current interests or putting appropriate models in the sand tray to enable them to take their interests to a further level.
- Achieve a balance between child-initiated spontaneous play and activities that adults initiate and guide.
- Evaluate your provision in relation to children’s choices and achievements, so that you can find out if activities are enabling all children to make as much progress as they could.
Effective practice: Supporting Learning © Crown copyright 2007
