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Communication and Language Friendly Environments
Area: Learning and Development Audience: Practitioners
This course will enable practitioners to explore different ways of supporting communication
and language within their setting and explore how to develop a communication and
language friendly environment
Learning Objectives:

• To explore how babies and young children develop early language and
communication skills
• To explore how practitioners can support children by providing communication and
language rich environments

• To identify problems that pre-school children may experience regarding
communication and language and what these might look like within the nursery
setting

Curiosity and Loose Parts Play

Area: Learning and Development Audience: Practitioners
This course will explore the importance of providing open ended resources for young
children to explore to in order to support their creative and critical thinking.
Learning Objectives
• To gain an awareness of round the theory of loose parts
• To understand the value of loose parts to support motor sensory development
• To discuss how loose parts play links with the characteristic of effective learning
• To explore role of the adult in providing a range of open-ended resources within the
environment
• To provide practical guidance about loose parts play and opportunities to explore
loose parts
• To develop ideas around using loose parts as an effective paly to support ‘how
children learn and develop independence
Loose parts theory isn’t anything new it was originally introduced by an architect Simon
Nicholson in the 1970’s. This course will enable you to explore the key messages about loose
parts and understand the benefits of open-ended materials with no specific set directions. It
will help you to explore how children learn by using loose parts to create a richer
environment for children play

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