1 Planning in the early years setting requires a strategic approach.
* Every setting will have long-, medium- and short-term curriculum plans and individual learning programmes for children. You need to know how the plans are compiled and the inter-relationship between one and the others.
* Collect plans from your setting, particularly where you have contributed directly.
2 The curriculum, or range of activities offered, needs to support areas of development, and for Foundation Stage children will cover the Early Learning Goals.
* Devise a long-term theme plan. Draw a chart with a box in the centre to write in your chosen theme, for example, spring, and divide the rest of the page into six equal parts. In each section write an area of learning - mathematical development; physical development; communication, language and literacy; creative development; personal, social and emotional development, and knowledge and understanding of the world.
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