Within Hazeldene Family Centre, we plan for children’s learning using Curriculum for Excellence. We also are guided by Realising the Ambition: national practice guidance for early years in Scotland.
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At Hazeldene Family Centre we start from the premise of the child as
- A person in their own right – a rights holder
- An expert in their own lives
- A social communicator
- A meaning-maker
In doing so children become documenters of, and commentators on their environment.
We centre the children at the heart of our planning process, listening to their voices and devise Possible Lines of Development based on our interactions with them.
“The role of the adult, as educator, is inextricably bound up with how children are viewed as learners. As has already been shown, once it is acknowledged that children are competent (albeit inexperienced) learners, then this shifts the way in which adults respond to them and their varied and various abilities.”
Julie Fisher
Staff then create provocations to extend children’s thinking and lines of enquiry and record this learning in their Area Floorbook with the children. Through this co-creation of knowledge children are introduced to, and develop experience in, metacognition – ‘thinking about thinking’
“Each child is viewed as infinitely capable, creative and intelligent. The job of the adult is to support these qualities and to challenge children in appropriate ways so that they develop fully.”
Louise Boyd Cadwell
Talking and Thinking Floorbooks makes children’s voices visible and gives them status. They allow the child to see and track their own learning pathways and affords staff the opportunity to match the child’s needs interests and desires with the curriculum.
