Early Years Education and Practice

These two areas are often used during free play where children like to get physical and mess around within the sand and splash around within the water. In both of these areas there also props children can use to play with like buckets to make sand castles, and tubes to fill up and exchange water…

The home area includes a kitchen with tables and chairs, and a bed. Girls are often found in this area using it as a way for role playing as a family by making food in the kitchen and dressing the dolls, and putting them to bed.

Boys are often found in this area during their free play. Within the blocks and animals are it involves various amounts of different sized blocks for the children to use to build at any time, during their they can also dress up with the construction hats and hi vis vests provided within the area in…

This Role Play area often switches, as seen within the image currently it is a shop for children to use during their free play. Previously this area was used as a Post Office for the children to role play to. Behind this desk children also have a small wardrobe full of different outfits they can…

There are several different ways children can use the arts and crafts area during their free play. Using the board against the wall children can peg paper onto there where they can then either use paint, pencils, pens, bingo dabbers, etc. At the top of this area with the white table it is often used…

This area is used as a “family group” area at the start of both morning and afternoon nursery sessions where an additional practitioner within placement carries out the curriculum-based routine that is used every day to welcome the children, ask them how they are feeling and carry out any small lesson plans that are set…

The reading corner has a very relaxing theme to it with the sofa, cushions and soft toys in there for the children to enjoy during their free play. Within this area it includes various amount of books within the shelves from fictional stories to non-fictional books on numbers. There are also other options for children…

  This area is set out daily with cut up fruit that children bring in themselves weekly to share with the whole class. The children are able to use the snack stop at any point they would like to during their free play within the classroom after cleaning their hands first. It is also a…