Our journey to help deepen children’s thinking and learning led us first to make significant changes to our planning and environment. In developing our practice further, we revisited and reviewed current theories from the field of developmental psychology on how children learn. We also worked with early years consultant Di Chilvers, who took us back to basics; using observation as a tool for really beginning to understand children’s thinking, their ideas and their fascinations.
Each child is unique and understanding their uniqueness helps us connect their interests to their learning by co-creating a curriculum and developing it further by following possible lines of enquiry. All this takes place in a supportive environment that is child-led and stimulates, inspires and promotes sustained shared thinking and talk.
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