Play is the Basis of Our Ethos.
We believe that through play a child can learn to make sense of the world around them and they can develop social and cognitive skills, mature emotionally, and gain the self-confidence required to engage in new experiences and environments.
With play as our main focus, we work with the Reception children’s teachers and undertake play and activities that go along with and compliment what the children are learning.
What is Play? It is a Way of ‘Doing Things’. Play is…
- Active
- Adventurous
- Communicative
- Enjoyable
- Involved
- Meaningful
- Sociable and Interactive
- Symbolic
- Therapeutic
- Voluntary
Children use their bodies and minds in their play. They interact with the environment, with materials and with other people.
Play helps children to explore the unknown. The pretend element offers a safety net that encourages children to take risks.
Children share information and knowledge through their play. Their communication can be verbal or non-verbal, simple or complex.
Play is fun and exciting, and involves a sense of humour.
Children become deeply absorbed and focused in their play, concentrating and thinking about what they are doing.
Children play about what they have seen and heard, and what they know. Play helps them to build and extend their knowledge, understanding and skills in a way that makes sense to them.
Children play alongside or with others. Sometimes they also like and need to play alone.
Children imagine and pretend when they are playing. They try out ideas, feelings and roles. They re-enact the past and rehearse the future. This can involve them ‘reading’ and ‘writing’ long before they develop these skills.
Play helps children to express and work through emotions and experiences.
Children choose to play. Their play is spontaneous. They shape it as they go, changing the characters, events, objects, and locations.
- Active
- Adventurous
- Communicative
- Enjoyable
- Involved
- Meaningful
- Sociable and Interactive
- Symbolic
- Therapeutic
- Voluntary
Children use their bodies and minds in their play. They interact with the environment, with materials and with other people.
Play helps children to explore the unknown. The pretend element offers a safety net that encourages children to take risks.
Children share information and knowledge through their play. Their communication can be verbal or non-verbal, simple or complex.
Play is fun and exciting, and involves a sense of humour.
Children become deeply absorbed and focused in their play, concentrating and thinking about what they are doing.
Children play about what they have seen and heard, and what they know. Play helps them to build and extend their knowledge, understanding and skills in a way that makes sense to them.
Children play alongside or with others. Sometimes they also like and need to play alone.
Children imagine and pretend when they are playing. They try out ideas, feelings and roles. They re-enact the past and rehearse the future. This can involve them ‘reading’ and ‘writing’ long before they develop these skills.
Play helps children to express and work through emotions and experiences.
Children choose to play. Their play is spontaneous. They shape it as they go, changing the characters, events, objects, and locations.