Posts tagged 'Practitioners'

Facilitating play can be a complex role for Early Years practitioners. Early Years expert, Emma Davis, explores the importance of child-led play and how to strike a balance between the role of observer and facilitator.

Introducing loose parts play into a setting can be a hugely empowering and valuable experience.  As practitioners, our role is to facilitate an enabling and inspiring environment for children and incorporating loose parts into our provision can help us to achieve this.

This unprecedented challenge has called for all us to think in ways we just aren’t used to. As lockdown measures were eased and children gradually returned to settings, there was a lot of uncertainty and guidance was sometimes difficult to interpret, leaving many having to work out solutions for themselves or feeling they needed to plan without the full picture.

With the new Ofsted inspection handbook being published last year came the increased focus on awe and wonder in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).