Indoor and outdoor surroundings that offer a range of settings for different learning opportunities best support each child’s distinctive needs and challenges. A clean, safe, and naturally sound physical environment is a vital component of quality for students, staff and families. Children’s growth and development are continually shaped and influenced by their environment.Growth is enhanced through nurturing and responsive caregiving, good nutrition, homes and schools that are clean and safe. The facility should be comfortable, interesting and appealing. For some children it’s like a second home where they eat and sometimes sleep. Such environment sometimes varies for a young baby as it is for a three or five year old although,
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The school facility consists of not only the physical structure and the variety the number of building systems, such as mechanical, plumbing, electrical and power, telecommunications, security systems. The facility should also include furnishings, materials and supplies, as well as various aspects of the building grounds, such as, recreation areas, and a passage for vehicles and parking spaces.” Areas with high level of air pollution, loud noises, heavy traffic, deep excavations and toxic materials in the indoor and outdoor paint and surrounding soil, and radiation hazards are undesirable for child care facilities.” (Aronson & National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2002, p.145) The school facility is much more than a passive container of the educational process: it is, rather, an important element of learning. Maintaining school facilities is important to providing superb education programs. More importantly, by investing in strong preventative maintenance programs, school facilities can continue to serve students for long time. The facility should also implement a policy for regular cleaning and maintenance, especially when there’s an outbreak of …show more content…
If it’s possible they should have access to spaces outside on a daily basis , depending on the weather. Being outside allows children to move around without many of the confines of being indoors. They have the chance to inhale fresh air and use their senses to recognize the colors and different noises. Outdoors encourages children to be more daring and allows opportunities for play, problem-solving and imaginativeness whilst among other children. Physical activity is also heightened enhanced when children play out outdoors. On the outdoors, children tend to be more talkative, which makes communication five times greater than indoors. With outdoor play areas , supplies don’t need to be classy or overpriced. Old tires, some logs and boxes will stimulate imagination and can be used in a numerous ways. Trees and hanging plants can give contact with the natural world. Outdoor play makes learning more active and
The school facility consists of not only the physical structure and the variety the number of building systems, such as mechanical, plumbing, electrical and power, telecommunications, security systems. The facility should also include furnishings, materials and supplies, as well as various aspects of the building grounds, such as, recreation areas, and a passage for vehicles and parking spaces.” Areas with high level of air pollution, loud noises, heavy traffic, deep excavations and toxic materials in the indoor and outdoor paint and surrounding soil, and radiation hazards are undesirable for child care facilities.” (Aronson & National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2002, p.145) The school facility is much more than a passive container of the educational process: it is, rather, an important element of learning. Maintaining school facilities is important to providing superb education programs. More importantly, by investing in strong preventative maintenance programs, school facilities can continue to serve students for long time. The facility should also implement a policy for regular cleaning and maintenance, especially when there’s an outbreak of …show more content…
If it’s possible they should have access to spaces outside on a daily basis , depending on the weather. Being outside allows children to move around without many of the confines of being indoors. They have the chance to inhale fresh air and use their senses to recognize the colors and different noises. Outdoors encourages children to be more daring and allows opportunities for play, problem-solving and imaginativeness whilst among other children. Physical activity is also heightened enhanced when children play out outdoors. On the outdoors, children tend to be more talkative, which makes communication five times greater than indoors. With outdoor play areas , supplies don’t need to be classy or overpriced. Old tires, some logs and boxes will stimulate imagination and can be used in a numerous ways. Trees and hanging plants can give contact with the natural world. Outdoor play makes learning more active and