Explain The Ways In Which Practitioners Support Children's Well-Being

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Another way in which practitioners support children’s well-being is by making sure the children are always provided with both educational and enjoyable activities, as children learn through play and the children are much more likely to learn if the activities interest them. These activities could include touchy-feely books, gluing and sticking, toy phones and drawing. Drawing, for example, helps children master the grasps (including the palmer grasp, pincer grasp and tripod grasp) and is also an enjoyable activity for some children to take part in so they could be interested. It is important to find activities and themes each child is interested in to make sure they are included and that they join in, as well as learning and developing in the activity as they are more likely to pay attention if they are interested, which could lead to them paying attention, learning and developing. As early years’ practitioners, the nursery staff should make sure the children have all the educational toys and tools they need in order to learn and develop. C1 Policies A policy that early years’ practitioners should support within the nursery that also relates to the play, learning and development of the children is the Key Person Policy. This is because the Key Person Policy is the reason that a key worker must be assigned to each and every child attending any nursery. The key worker (an early years’ practitioner assigned to a particular child) is supposed to support their key children by planning activities for each individual child, tailored to their age, stage of development and interests. A key person also has to be aware of, witness and document each child’s progress and development throughout their time at nursery. This is so the key person can keep track of which milestones their key children have successfully met and need no more work as well as which milestones they are struggling with or have not yet met. This is so the key person can work on those areas with each individual child in 1 to 1 sessions, in an attempt to improve those areas, the child is struggling with, help them reach the milestones they should be reaching (EYFS) with as well as supporting and helping the children to continue to learn and develop through their time at nursery. The children will normally have one key person in their time at nursery, a person the child often grows close to and feels safe and comfortable around. Without this policy, the nursery would not have to assign a key person to each child, most likely resulting in children not having a key worker, which means they could be behind on their milestones or struggling with a certain aspect of their development and no one would notice or support the child to help them improve as nurseries would not be legally obligated to provide a key person to any child. The children would have possibly found transitions from home to nursery difficult without the key person to support and comfort them throughout her first few weeks, as for many children, nursery is their first long separation from their parents. As the first few weeks are difficult for the children, having no-one to comfort them could also led to the child disliking nursery and becoming sad or crying whenever their parents left them …show more content…
Another policy that supports development and play is the physical development policy at nursery, which says physical play and development are to be encouraged. This policy ensures that children have access to physically challenging activities in the indoor and outdoor areas within the nursery. This means that there should be physically challenging equipment, games and activities available that are suitable for all the children at the nursery, which means there should be equipment suitable for children aged 0 to 1 years 11 months, aged 2 to 2 years 11 months and children aged 3 to 5 years. For the children aged 0 to 1 year 11 months, simple activities like walking and running can be a challenge so games of chase with a practitioner can encourage and support the children to run and play, which in turn teaches them to be careful whilst running, or they will fall over. For children aged 2 to 2 years 11 months, a slide

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