PLAY What is play? Definition of play. From an early age‚ play is important to a child’s development and learning. It isn’t just physical. It can involve cognitive‚ imaginative‚ creative‚ emotional and social aspects. It is the main way most children express their impulse to explore‚ experiment and understand. Children of all ages play. (Dobson‚ 2004‚ p.8) This essay will describe the defining features of play‚ understanding of the roles and functions of play in early years. Play is not
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Play is what children wants to do and what they choose to do when given the freedom‚ independence‚ time and space to determine their own behaviour. All children have a natural desire to play and will therefore play anywhere they are given the opportunity. Children’s play can be happy or sad‚ loud or quiet‚ calm or chaotic‚ creative or destructive‚ sociable or isolated and imaginative or real. Sometimes play can be risky‚ other times it will be boisterous and a lot of the time it will just seem plain
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Describe the importance of play and leisure for children and young people. Wales is the only country in the world to have a policy about play‚ part of it says; “play is the elemental learning process by which humankind has developed. Children exhibit a behavioural imperative and instinctive desire to play. It has contributed significantly to the evolutionary and developmental survival of our species. Children use play in the natural environment to learn of the world they inhabit with others. It
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Play in Aistear and Síolta‚ the national curriculum and quality frameworks The research is so clear about the benefits of play that in Ireland we have established play as central to the early childhood curriculum. Both Aistear‚ the national curriculum framework from the National Council For Curriculum and Assessment‚ and Síolta‚ the national quality framework from the Dept. of Education‚ emphasise the importance of play in the home and in early education settings. Aistear tells us that engaging
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Level 2 Child Care 1. The materials used in play‚ what the benefits are and examples. Creative play is when children use their imagination and artistic skills to create what they want whilst doing activities such as painting‚ drawing‚ sticking‚ cutting and play dough. The materials that are used in this play are colouring pencils‚ scissors‚ glue‚ paper‚ crayons‚ stamps‚ aprons‚ feathers and paints. Creative play helps develop math skills because when they are sticking they are seeing a variety
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Children’s Rights are human rights that protect the child as a human being. The Children’s Rights Movement was started in 1841 to try and protect children in their workplace. At the beginning of the 20th century‚ children’s protection started to be put in place‚ including protection in the medical‚ social and judicial fields. The Children’s Rights Movement has helped many children since it was founded and has helped to create many laws for children. Everyone should choose to support what the Children’s
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With particular reference to children born following donor insemination and adopted children‚ critically explore the extent to which it can be said that the law currently recognises that all children have a right to know who their genetic parents are. In 2008 there were around 708‚111 live births in England and Wales alone‚ of these births many will not be brought up by their biological parents. Whether the child is adopted from birth and brought up by none biological parents or conceived via donor
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fine motor skills; creative and constructive play are both particularly beneficial in this area‚ also play helps children to refine their motor skills when making toy figurines stand up etc. Play benefits children’s intellectual development as it helps then begin to understand important mathematical concepts such as number‚ matching‚ ordering‚ sorting‚ making and recognising pattern‚ adding and subtracting‚ and measuring. Role play helps children to explore aspects of their real life e.g a
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reasons why kids should be able to play sports. Firstly‚ kids should play competitive sports because they learn essential life lessons. For example‚ autor Kristin Chessman quotes Jim Taylor‚ Ph.D and sports psychology author. "Kids learn essential life skills‚ such as hard work‚ patience‚ persistence‚ and how to respond positively to setbacks and failure‚" (Chessman). This way‚ kids who never give up on their dream will try harder to become successful. In addition‚ children learn how to work with different
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Parental rights and responsibilities are listed in Section 18 of the Children’s Act. These include guardianship‚ contact‚ care and maintenance. Maintenance can be understood as the parent’s responsibility to provide for the needs of their children or payment towards the fulfilment of these needs. This responsibility is part of the parental duty of support towards children and this essay will focus on whether or not this duty falls on a child’s grandparents where a child is born out of wedlock and
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