Elize Bridewell UNIT 21 20/03/2019
Unit 21: Children’s Imaginative Play and Creativity.
Planning for creative and imaginative play:
When planning for creative and imaginative play you need to ensure that you have covered
the following;
The objectives, such as the learning aims that you expect the child
to achieve.
How you will ensure that this activity will be successful and how
to get to this outcome.
How to make the plan link directly to the child’s interests and
abilities.
The areas of the curriculum, such as the EYFS that it will meet.
How to be certain that what is being planned is age and stage
appropriate, this can be done by following the EYFS.
How to prepare an environment to cover both indoor and outdoor
play.
Knowledge on how to carry out a risk assessment and what you should be looking for.
Understand how to identify your own role within a creative and imaginative activity and
continuously develop this.
Implement creative and imaginative play activities:
When carrying out the activities that have been carefully thought about,
you need to ensure that you are able to encourage and support the
children’s creativity and their sustained thinking. Sustained thinking is
also known as ‘sustained shared thinking’ and this is where two or more
people ‘work together’ so that they can solve a problem that has
occurred, evaluate/ reflect on an activity or to overall extend an activity
to make it more beneficial to the child. To encourage and support the child in reaching their
best self when it comes to learning, thee language and communication is an important part, this
is because the child’s language and communication skills need to be at a certain level for them
to fully understand how to take part in activities and meet their developmental milestones.
http://dnn.essex.gov.uk/Portals/49/Documents/EYFS/Understanding%20Sustained%20Shared
%20Thinking.pdf
Unit 21: Children’s Imaginative Play and Creativity.
Planning for creative and imaginative play:
When planning for creative and imaginative play you need to ensure that you have covered
the following;
The objectives, such as the learning aims that you expect the child
to achieve.
How you will ensure that this activity will be successful and how
to get to this outcome.
How to make the plan link directly to the child’s interests and
abilities.
The areas of the curriculum, such as the EYFS that it will meet.
How to be certain that what is being planned is age and stage
appropriate, this can be done by following the EYFS.
How to prepare an environment to cover both indoor and outdoor
play.
Knowledge on how to carry out a risk assessment and what you should be looking for.
Understand how to identify your own role within a creative and imaginative activity and
continuously develop this.
Implement creative and imaginative play activities:
When carrying out the activities that have been carefully thought about,
you need to ensure that you are able to encourage and support the
children’s creativity and their sustained thinking. Sustained thinking is
also known as ‘sustained shared thinking’ and this is where two or more
people ‘work together’ so that they can solve a problem that has
occurred, evaluate/ reflect on an activity or to overall extend an activity
to make it more beneficial to the child. To encourage and support the child in reaching their
best self when it comes to learning, thee language and communication is an important part, this
is because the child’s language and communication skills need to be at a certain level for them
to fully understand how to take part in activities and meet their developmental milestones.
http://dnn.essex.gov.uk/Portals/49/Documents/EYFS/Understanding%20Sustained%20Shared
%20Thinking.pdf
