Early years educator level 3 plan create indoor outdoor environment

[benlucy37]

Hi

Not sure how to start a thread....I'm on phone so limited I'm really stuck trying to answer how to create and plan an indoor and outdoor enabling environment..cache level 3. Eye. Unit 3:4 q 5:1 5:2. Not sure how to set about putting it on paper

Many thanks

[Ruthierhyme]

Hi, you started a thread just fine :)

The best way to start this project is to use pages 207 & 209 of the eye handbook where information about what an enabling is and what it might look like is explained.

QUOTE page 202 of the level 3 EYE handbook 2014
Enabling environment
The term enabling environment is used by the EYFS (use your own home nation framework if you work in NI, Scotland or Wales) to reflect the importance of creating a physical environment that allows children to do as much as they can for themselves. This means, for example., toys and resources that children can access by themselves and also tidy away. To help create an enabling environment, photographs of equipment might be put onto the side of containers so that children know where to find them.

Consider how your setting/placement is laid out, where specific play areas are, what they're called, if children can reach the resources and how you feel the environment could change.

You might find making a floor plan useful or maybe you know how you'd apply your knowledge of children's development to an inside and outside area so that it supports their development.

Hth