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Unit 4
1.1 Describe what is meant by a positive environment.
A positive environment is a happy health and welcoming setting that the children would want and be happy to come and learn and play. It is also a place where children, staff and parents work well together to get the best out of the children they can.
It helps to challenge the children in all aspects of development and learning. Also the setting must be ready for all ages, this is so that all children no matter what the age are challenge in what ever they do/play.
1.2 identify regulatory requirements that underpin a positive environment for children and young people.
-Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Framework
-Childcare Act 2006
-HSWA (the health & safety at work act 1974)
-Care Standards Act 2006
-Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults (where applicable)
2.4 support the engagement of children or young people in activities that promote use of their senses.
There are five different senses:
-Touch,
-Taste,
-Sight,
-Hearing,
-Smell.
We start to use our ssenses as soon as we are born, children learn though their senses and develop an understanding of the world. There is an another sense that is called the inner sense, this is something that we sense within the body and it can change depending on the person. These senses are:
-The tactile sense, we feel this when are bodies touches someghing. Most babies and children are very sensitive about what they feel and what they touch. Even adults have things that they do not like the texture of.
-The vestibular sense, this comes from the inside of our (inner) ear, it helps us to balance and sorts out the information about movement, gravity and/or balance.
-The proprioceptive sense, this sense helps to prosess information about the body parts and the body positions, this sense is very important for babies when they start to move.
There are different ways and different activities that can be done to help encourage children and young people to

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