Cypop5 Task 3

Planning is also very important within the foundation phase as all activities and areas within the setting need to be planned in order to challenge and promote children's holistic development. The activities must be enjoyable but also suitable for the children’s individual abilities in order for them to stay focused and learning new things. It is important that when planning practitioners put the child center to the planning and ensure that the children have a good balance between child initiative play and adult led activities. Practitioners may use the quality and environment triangle, this is a clear model and can be extremely useful for childcare practitioners when creating a balanced curriculum within their setting, which is appropriate to the age and stage of development for children’s play and learning. ‘As a professional the planning process is a good way of keeping you aware of all aspects of development and ensuring that some potential areas of learning do no push aside others’ (Lindon, J. 2011, P1) It is important that short, medium and long term plans are in place so that practitioners know what they have included and completed within the curriculum and what curriculum they haven’t covered yet.
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I also think it is very important that there is a good balance of adult-led and child-led activities as both play a very big part in children’s learning. Adult-led activities can enhance children’s learning further as many questions may be asked in order to challenge the children but during child-led play the children are able to learn at their own