{"id":3385,"date":"2021-11-26T10:09:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T10:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/falkirkearlyyears\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2021-11-26T10:09:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T10:09:10","slug":"new-resource-falkirk-early-level-self-evaluation-audit-toolspaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/falkirkearlyyears\/new-resource-falkirk-early-level-self-evaluation-audit-toolspaces\/","title":{"rendered":"New Resource – Falkirk Early Level Self-Evaluation Audit Tool:Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Physical spaces, both outside and indoors, should be constantly reviewed to incorporate a wide range of responsive, familiar, and exciting new play opportunities.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

(Realising the Ambition 2020)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

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National guidance and quality framework documents remind us how important it is to regularly reflect on the quality of the spaces we offer our children to support their learning through play. \"\" \"\"<\/p>\n

To help teams with this self-evaluation work, Falkirk Council Early Learning team and NHS Forth Valley Speech and Language therapists have worked together to bring the wide and vast variety of national and local guidance and information available together into one, easy to use, audit tool.<\/p>\n

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The Falkirk Early Level Self-Evaluation Audit: Spaces <\/strong>tool can be used in both ELC and P1 settings, to support teams with their planning, evaluation, and moderation of high-quality play spaces. \u00a0The tool draws on all the resources already available to practitioners in Falkirk, including Realising the Ambition, enabling environments, literacy rich environments, visual communication audit tool, loose parts play, ECERS-E (2014), Kym Scott\u2019s environment audit (2019), Marvellous Mealtimes audit, Falkirk Froebel Family advice etc. It has been split into four sections in line with Falkirk Council\u2019s Play is the Way practitioner guidance about designing environments to support child-initiated learning.<\/p>\n