1 Meet the nutritional needs of babies.
* Describe how you encourage parents to breast-feed and store milk. Write a parents' handout showing how you support them and give babies milk according to parents' wishes.
* Photocopy, for your portfolio, your records on babies' feeds. (Remove information identifying the child from the records.) 2 Make hygiene, health and safety a top priority.
* Show that your routines for storing and preparing milk and food meet health, safety and hygiene standards.
* Show that your personal hygiene routines minimises the spread of infection.
3 Feeding babies takes up much of the day.
* Develop a knowledge of weaning, including suitable foods for babies of different ages, and related problems such as allergies. Your assessor can observe you bottle-feeding and feeding a baby.
4 Be aware of babies' health, development, routines and environment.
* Create a photo montage of equipment for babies aged six to 12 months.
Around the pictures, list the safety factors relating to their use and storage.
* Demonstrate your knowledge of unusual conditions by answering questions on sleep disturbances, colic, diarrhoea, vomiting, prolonged crying, skin conditions and refusing food.
5 Babies grow very rapidly in the first year.
* Prepare an outdoor play and exercise plan for babies, taking account of their developmental levels, health and safety, the weather and play opportunities.
* Draw up a spider chart with physical development in the body and, on the legs, safety precautions to be taken to ensure babies can make full use of the setting to develop their physical skills in safety.
* Develop ways of passing to parents information about their child's progress. Cross-reference to P2 relevant witness tesimonies or observations.
6 Babies are avid learners.
* Write a reflective account of your day. Record babies' play, behaviour, language and routines such as feeding. Describe what learning you think took place and how babies' skills are developing.
* Audit the toys in your setting and indicate what the baby will learn by playing with them.
7 Non-stereotypical play should start early.
* Check that all resources show non-stereotypical images and positive images of children and adults from other races and cultures. Record your findings and discuss with your assessor.
8 Babies' language develops very quickly.
* Make a collection of rhymes, lullabies and action songs for babies. Show your ability to use them with babies, including encouraging them to make movements such as clapping.
9 To speak, babies first need to learn to listen.
* Create ways to develop babies' listening skills, such as singing, whispering and sharing books.
* Expose children to different languages, spoken by adults around them or recorded songs.
10 Top tip! 'Babies communicate in many different ways. Don't be embarrassed to babble and blow raspberries with them, it makes a good game for small babies,' says Ruth Gill, nursery manager and NVQ verifier, Burton College Nursery.