Explain How To Plan For And Support Children And Young People's Self-Directed Play

Unit 316: Understand how to plan for and support children and young people's self directed play Task A School Wrap is a play setting where children can express themselves freely. Each day we set up a variety of different play areas, the children can then decide by themselves if they want to play in a certain area. We make it very clear to the children when they start at school wrap they can play with anything they want to, even if it is not out they are more than welcome to go get it. We (the play workers) then watch the children and step in accordingly. We would only step in if a child was at risk, if the risk out weighed the enjoyment then we would have to ask the child to stop and help them make the game safe. We also have an input if the children are struggling to come up with a solution, the
Also the den building equipment and imaginative play. We feel a play space should feel inviting and welcoming to the the children, they should want to explore and investigate it whilst feeling safe in their environment. We set up a range of play spaces including the following
● Arts and crafts
● Ball games
● Soft Toys
● Quiet area
● Toy figures
● Cars and trains
We feel it is important the children can play with what they would like, we do not have specific areas for different genders. The children use the permanent play space (the hall) for a variety of different activities.
They arrive in the setting and they can see the hall is partially set up for play but we feel it is important we include them in the setup too. We also use the playground which is a very large permanent play space, a lot of the children are very eager to get outside to burn off some energy after being at school all day. They often play tag or use the permanent fixtures in the setting, the climbing frame, the trim trail or climbing the trees.

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