Unit 12
Unit 12
Context and principles for Early Years provision
The EYFS is a statutory framework that sets the principles that all early years’ workers have a duty to meet. Play is a key way in which the curriculum is delivered and adults are expected to find fun ways for children to learn and develop. This framework is used from birth to five years old.
Adults are able to set up activities knowing that they will be beneficial to the children and will be following the early year’s curriculum guidelines. They are able to make the experience of learning fun for the children. An adult working with children has a duty to keep a child safe while they play, they would need to check the play area for any safety hazards and supervise the children following the guidelines of the EYFS.
The key features of the EYFS: * The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) sets the standards that all early years’ providers must meet to ensure that children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe.
* The Early Years Foundation Stage promotes teaching and learning to ensure children’s ‘school readiness’ and gives children the broad range of knowledge and skills that provide the right foundation for good future progress through school and life.
There have been several approaches to play that have had an influence on today’s early years play settings. There are many different views on how children would benefit most from play. I will be discussing philosophical, theoretical and other approaches that have had a successful effect on the early year’s framework.
Maria Montessori 1870-1975 was a doctor and worked with children with learning disabilities. She believed that up until the age of six a child was capable of learning things quickly and more easily than the mind of an older person. She believed up until the age of six years old that a child has an ‘absorbent mind’ and that people should make good use of this time and that it should not be wasted. She believed
Context and principles for Early Years provision
The EYFS is a statutory framework that sets the principles that all early years’ workers have a duty to meet. Play is a key way in which the curriculum is delivered and adults are expected to find fun ways for children to learn and develop. This framework is used from birth to five years old.
Adults are able to set up activities knowing that they will be beneficial to the children and will be following the early year’s curriculum guidelines. They are able to make the experience of learning fun for the children. An adult working with children has a duty to keep a child safe while they play, they would need to check the play area for any safety hazards and supervise the children following the guidelines of the EYFS.
The key features of the EYFS: * The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) sets the standards that all early years’ providers must meet to ensure that children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe.
* The Early Years Foundation Stage promotes teaching and learning to ensure children’s ‘school readiness’ and gives children the broad range of knowledge and skills that provide the right foundation for good future progress through school and life.
There have been several approaches to play that have had an influence on today’s early years play settings. There are many different views on how children would benefit most from play. I will be discussing philosophical, theoretical and other approaches that have had a successful effect on the early year’s framework.
Maria Montessori 1870-1975 was a doctor and worked with children with learning disabilities. She believed that up until the age of six a child was capable of learning things quickly and more easily than the mind of an older person. She believed up until the age of six years old that a child has an ‘absorbent mind’ and that people should make good use of this time and that it should not be wasted. She believed