Silkysteps early years forum - planning ideas for play

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We need to ensure our curriculum is multicultural and accessible for children from other cultures and backgrounds. We need to provide visual prompts to assist these children with language and where possible an interpreter or a member of staff to learn a few basic words in the child’s language.
• Shared culture is communicated through the events of daily life, such as food at snack time dressing up clothes from different countries, music from around the world.
• A sense of personal identity through culture is supported by shared language and ways of communicating and sometimes through a shared faith or celebration
• Young children of every cultural or ethnic background need to develop a secure and positive sense of their own identity. Children’s family life will be the most significant source of that identity. Preschool life should reinforce it, in the role play area and through books, puzzles and dolls.
• On a firm basis of my own culture, children are then able to make sense and learn about less familiar cultures. Experiences outside the family, including within preschool, can be a significant source of this broader base of understanding.
• So long as practitioners offer experiences in a thoughtful and well-informed way, there is a good chance that children will learn respect for ways of life with which they are less acquainted.:banghead: