Planning for Effective Early Learning by Jennie Lindon

Author:Jennie Lindon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: planning, child-centred, best practice, routine, learning, practitioners, managers
ISBN: 9781907241444
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2012
Published: 2012-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

Using the trolley

The Grove House Nursery Class team have a daily afternoon planning meeting to reflect on children’s spontaneous interests, as well as the two adult-led experiences that have been available. Here are a few highlights to show short-term planning that is so responsive to what has worked well today. See also the examples ‘Example: playing with Unifix blocks’, ‘Example: first-hand experiences’ and ‘Example: enthusiasm for dinosaurs’ in the chapter ‘Leading a thoughtful approach’. Observations and comments from the team led to immediate decisions, written down, for enhancements to provision, usually for the next day. Plans stretch into next week if a special event needs more planning time.

My visit was on a Friday and the team were able to reflect on what happened on the single day within the week when there were no wheeled vehicles in the garden. This temporary absence seemed to create the opportunity for children to run races round the circuit that is usually occupied by children on one- and two-seater bikes. The conclusion was that a bike-free day could be a useful regular event.

Practitioners had noticed that several children had been keen on using the trolley outdoors – the trolley was designed for adult-sized and designed for trundling stacked boxes. The children had been intrigued and had managed to move the trolley effectively around the garden. So the decision was that this trolley would be out again. Informal observation had confirmed that the trolley was safe to be out at the same time as the bikes; there had been no collisions.

Several groups of children had been fully engaged in large scale chalking and drawing. Some thought was given to maybe moving some of the outdoor equipment and furniture to create more space for this enterprise. Practitioners had noticed that children especially liked painting with the sponges. Plans were made to offer more resources for large scale outdoor painting.

A busy group had been pretend cooking in the sand for a sustained period of time. The decision was made to ensure next week that there were plenty of cooking items ready by the sand, to find the long handled wooden spoons or buy more if they could not be discovered.

Another group of children had been intrigued by ‘finding treasure’ in another area of sand. The team decided that this possibility needed to keep running. The self-service tray by the sand resource had sieves and other items which could help in the treasure seeking.

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