Play, Learning and Developing p27 – Children’s Engagement
Well-considered innovations and creative approaches successfully engage children’s imagination and enrich their play and learning. A broad range of skills, including language, literacy, and numeracy, are enhanced through a balance of child and adult-led interactions, and playful experiences.
Play, Learning and Developing p28 – Quality of Interactions
Our children have frequent, appropriate opportunities to develop their thinking and problem-solving skills through imaginative play and storytelling. This helps children to extend their own thinking, practise new skills and consolidate their learning in ways which are meaningful to them.
Play, Learning and Developing p30 – Challenge Questions
How well do we support and encourage children’s natural curiosity, creativity and
problem solving?
What approaches are we using to promote children’s developing skills over a broad range of areas, such as emotional and social development, emergent language skills, literacy and numeracy?
Learning, Teaching and Assessment p39 – Children’s Learning and Engagement
Our children are motivated and sustain engagement as they interact purposefully with a rich range of challenging and open-ended opportunities across the curriculum.
We are highly effective in using the environment to support children’s learning. Children explore, experiment, and develop curiosity and creativity through a wide range of high-quality resources and spaces.
We carefully consider the flow of the day, taking into account opportunities for children to maximise learning, be active and offer time and space to rest.
Learning, Teaching and Assessment p40 – Interactions to Support Learning
Our highly-skilled staff know when to observe play and interact using well-considered questions, commentary and modelling to support and extend children’s learning.
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QI 3.2 p51
How well is our focus on literacy and numeracy leading to raising attainment across the curriculum?
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Numeracy and mathematical thinking encompasses many different elements including recognition of numerical symbols, verbalising numbers and being able to recognise patterns and shapes. It involves many different skills such as understanding numbers, counting, problem solving, measuring, sorting and patterning. However, numeracy is not only about developing these skills. It is also about having the ability to apply these concepts in all areas of life. Therefore numeracy should be embedded throughout the curriculum and the environment and should not simply be seen as an area on its own.
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Numeracy and mathematical learning can be found in all aspects of the curriculum and all areas of the setting.
Numeracy and mathematical experiences should weave, build and grow children’s interests, vocabulary and knowledge.
Numeracy learning is enhanced by adults who use purposeful mathematical language when carrying out experiences.
Numeracy and mathematical learning should be actively encouraged by providing different materials in different contexts to encourage opportunities for exploration, enquiry and problem solving.
