{"id":2908,"date":"2021-10-06T16:45:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T15:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/?page_id=121"},"modified":"2026-02-03T13:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:51:27","slug":"play-reflecting-on-practice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/play-reflecting-on-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Play – reflecting on practice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Play<\/a><\/h1>\n
\u00a0– Supporting your Self-Evaluation<\/h5>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Leadership and Management of Staff and Resources \u2013 p5 Self-Evaluation, Quality Assurance and Implementing Change<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leaders ensure that high-quality learning through play is at the heart of improvement planning.<\/p>\n

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Children Experience High-Quality Spaces \u2013 p20 Quality, Safety and Maintenance of Spaces <\/strong><\/p>\n

We recognise the importance of daily outdoor play and the benefits of this for enhancing learning and wellbeing.<\/p>\n

Children engage in a broad range of challenging and interesting play opportunities that support and extend their development and learning.<\/p>\n

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Children Experience High-Quality Spaces \u2013 p22 Children Influence and Affect Change \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Through outdoor play, children are learning about sustainability, gaining a deeper understanding of how to care for and preserve their natural environment.<\/p>\n

We understand the positive impact that rich, multi-sensory play has on children\u2019s learning, resilience and wellbeing.<\/p>\n

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How can we be confident that our physical environment maximises opportunities for children to be challenged, creative and engaged in their play?<\/p>\n

To what extent does the physical environment support different types of play?<\/p>\n

How do we know our setting provides a wide range of challenging outdoor play and learning experiences that promote children\u2019s health and wellbeing?<\/p>\n

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Playing, Learning and Developing \u2013 p27 Children\u2019s Engagement <\/strong><\/p>\n

Our staff skilfully use relevant theory and practice to support their delivery of high-quality play experiences that excite and engage children as they learn.<\/p>\n

Children are successful, responsible and confident in their play as a result of the high-quality experiences we offer.<\/p>\n

Well-considered innovations and creative approaches successfully engage children\u2019s imagination and enrich their play and learning.<\/p>\n

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Playing, Learning and Developing \u2013 p28 Quality of Interactions <\/strong><\/p>\n

Our children have frequent, appropriate opportunities to develop their thinking and problem-solving skills through imaginative play and storytelling.<\/p>\n

We enable children to play and learn at their own pace, having fun as they explore the world around them.<\/p>\n

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How do we maximise opportunities for children to be challenged, creative and engaged in their play and learning?<\/p>\n

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Nurturing Care and Support \u2013 p45 Nurturing Care<\/strong><\/p>\n

We create diverse spaces that support children to socialise, play in small groups or alone if they wish.<\/p>\n

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Children\u2019s Progress \u2013 p59 Children’s Progress Over Time <\/strong><\/p>\n

Children develop and apply their early language and literacy, numerical and mathematical skills very well across a variety of meaningful play and real-life experiences.<\/p>\n

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Safeguarding and Child Protection p69<\/strong><\/p>\n

How effectively do staff support children to learn how to recognise and manage risk as they play and learn?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Section 4 \u2013 Child\u2019s work \u2013 The importance of play p43-50<\/strong><\/p>\n

Section 6 \u2013 Putting pedagogy into practice p62-79<\/strong><\/p>\n

Section 7 \u2013 Ensuring quality through critically reflective practice p81-87<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Play \u00a0– Supporting your Self-Evaluation Leadership and Management of Staff and Resources \u2013 p5 Self-Evaluation, Quality Assurance and Implementing Change Leaders ensure that high-quality learning through play is at the heart of improvement planning. \u00a0 Children Experience High-Quality Spaces \u2013 p20 Quality, Safety and Maintenance of Spaces We recognise the importance of daily outdoor play …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7767,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-builder.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2908","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20003,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2908\/revisions\/20003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}