{"id":3312,"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":"2026-01-28T12:13:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:13:03","slug":"childs-voice-reflecting-on-practice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/childs-voice-reflecting-on-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Child’s Voice – reflecting on practice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Child’s Voice<\/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 p8<\/strong><\/p>\n

How have we used children\u2019s voices to evaluate and inform our practice and provision?<\/p>\n

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Children Experience High-quality Spaces – p22 Children Influence and Affect Change<\/strong><\/p>\n

Children have high levels of involvement in influencing the design and use of spaces, which gives them a strong, clear message that they matter<\/p>\n

We actively engage with children to enable them to direct their play and experiences in the way they choose.<\/p>\n

Children are listened to and know that their views matter.<\/p>\n

We adapt our practice to meet their needs and enable their voices.<\/p>\n

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Playing, learning and developing \u2013 p27 Children\u2019s Engagement <\/strong><\/p>\n

We give them the time, space and support they need to make decisions and use their voice.<\/p>\n

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Playing, learning and developing\u00a0 – \u00a0p29 Child-centred Planning and Assessment<\/strong><\/p>\n

Experiences reflect children\u2019s ideas, aspirations, curiosities and meaningful next steps in their learning.<\/p>\n

\u00a0p31<\/strong><\/p>\n

How do we ensure our approach to children\u2019s needs recognises the independent thoughts and feelings of children as individuals?<\/p>\n

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Curriculum \u2013 p36 Skills for life and learning <\/strong><\/p>\n

All our children are supported to develop the skills, confidence and motivation to initiate and participate in improvements to our setting and community.<\/p>\n

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Learning, teaching and assessment \u2013 p39 Children’s Learning and Engagement <\/strong><\/p>\n

Children contribute meaningfully to the setting and influence choices and decisions about their learning.<\/p>\n

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Learning, teaching and assessment \u2013 p40 Interactions to Support Learning <\/strong><\/p>\n

We listen carefully to all children\u2019s views and are attuned to their needs, interests and learning styles. We value their opinions and support all children to express their views<\/p>\n

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Learning, Teaching and Assessment \u2013 p41 Planning and Assessment <\/strong><\/p>\n

We take account of children\u2019s ideas, interests and needs and use imaginative and appropriate ways to involve them in planning learning.<\/p>\n

\u00a0p43<\/strong><\/p>\n

In what ways do children have the opportunity to be independent, responsible, and lead their own learning?<\/p>\n

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Nurturing Care and Support \u2013 p47 Personal Planning <\/strong><\/p>\n

All children, regardless of their personal characteristics, are recognised as capable individuals who are listened to, valued and respected.<\/p>\n

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What do we need to do to ensure that the voices of all children, both verbal and nonverbal, are heard and responded to?<\/p>\n

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Wellbeing, inclusion and equality \u2013 p53 Positive Relationships and Wellbeing <\/strong><\/p>\n

Each child is valued by staff as an individual with their own personality, views, needs, and rights. We actively encourage children\u2019s participation in a developmentally appropriate way. This enables children to communicate their views, in their own way, about their wellbeing and engage in decisions which affect them.<\/p>\n

p57<\/strong><\/p>\n

In what ways do we encourage children to explore the feelings, attitudes, values and beliefs that influence their lives in a developmentally appropriate way?<\/p>\n

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

All children, including those with additional support needs are supported very well to make choices and share their learning and progress in their own individual way.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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QI 1.1 p21 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Challenge Question<\/strong><\/p>\n

How well do we involve all stakeholders (children, staff, parents and carers, families and partners) in self-evaluation and planning for improvement?<\/p>\n

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QI 1.2 p22 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Level 5 Illustration<\/strong><\/p>\n

We provide a wide range of opportunities and support to ensure children and young people can take responsibility for their own learning, successes and achievements. Our learners are developing the necessary resilience and confidence to enable them to make decisions about their own learning and to lead others\u2019 learning. They demonstrate this in a range of learning contexts within the school and community.\u201d<\/p>\n

QI 1.3 p25 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Features of Effective Practice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pupils\u2026are all involved in the creation and ongoing review of the vision, aims and values of the school.\u201d<\/p>\n

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QI2.3 p37 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Features of Highly Effective Practice:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Learners play an active role in the school and wider community and regularly take on leadership roles, including leading learning.<\/p>\n

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QI 3.1 p49 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Features of Highly Effective Practice:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Staff and partners have created an environment where children and young people feel listened to and are secure in their ability to discuss personal and sensitive aspects of their lives because they feel cared about.<\/p>\n

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QI 3.1 p49 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Challenge Question<\/strong><\/p>\n

How well do we listen to and involve children and young people in making decisions about their wellbeing, their lives and their future?<\/p>\n

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Appendix 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Learner voice and participation in development and evaluation activities which improve the provision is a significant feature of highly effective practice.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Child’s Voice \u00a0– Supporting your Self-Evaluation Leadership and Management of Staff and Resources p8 How have we used children\u2019s voices to evaluate and inform our practice and provision? \u00a0 Children Experience High-quality Spaces – p22 Children Influence and Affect Change Children have high levels of involvement in influencing the design and use of spaces, which …<\/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-3312","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3312","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=3312"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19423,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3312\/revisions\/19423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/earlylevelportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}