unit 3.1 explain the innate drive for children to play

[alaska1983nicky]

I have no idea what this means?

Explain the innate drive for children to play?

Analyse how play is necessary for the development of children?

and explain how the setting meets the right for children to play?

[Ruthierhyme]

Hi, the innate nature of play is recognised in the very first of the playwork principles:

http://www.playwales.org.uk/login/up...principles.pdf

Innate means built in, born with a motivation or drive to do something that has had no interference, intervention, suggestion or guidance, seemingly from anyone.

Quote from page 161 of the EYE handbook
Play is not something new. It would appear that for thousands of years children have played. It would also seem they are born primed and ready to play and also to explore. Interestingly they do this without needing any rewards from adults and will often play for hours at a time. There is some speculation that, as many young animals play as a way of practising skills, this is probably the basis for children's interest in play.

Page 162/3 goes on to look at how setting's can meet children's right to play (under Article 31 of the UNCRC children have the right to play) by examining how they include times for play in their daily routines eg. schools have breaktimes, nurseries and childminders base their practice on providing opportunities that promote and support play.

Hth

[alaska1983nicky]

thankyou xx

do you know how I would word this ;

identify how childrens play needs and preference in relation to their stage of development?

does it mean give examples of different toys/plans/activities for learning..

e.g. babys - messy play
toddlers - more sensory advanced messy play to help build fine motor skills later on etc?

and describe benefits of sensory play/ creative play? as I would have classed them as the same??

[tutu]

haven't you learnt play stages?

[alaska1983nicky]

with my course I don't go into college my learning is through manually reading through books and through research, which maybe easy to some but as ive never ever had a childcare background ive gone straight into this course from scratch .. im finding the reading all the books and taking it all in quite hard especially with the way the qs are worded.

[alaska1983nicky]

so I have no idea what you mean by play stages?

[Ruthierhyme]

Children are seen as going through stages of play as they grow and learn. These stages demonstrate ideas about how children explore their environments, take in new information, communicate with others and begin to understand how to be successful individuals.

Different theorists offer different ways, reasons and examples for this. We then use their information to help us understand how we can best support children on their journeys.


Your course provider should of offered you the level 2 introduction course instead of throwing you in at the deep end and on top of that recommend you buy the wrong handbook :(

Please, cut your losses if possible and get the EYE level 3 book it'll avoid such a lot of struggling and support your professional research far better xx

[alaska1983nicky]

ah thank you so much!!!! Last night I ordered a few books of ebay to help me! I think it was because I had GCSEs and A Levels from 15 odd years ago so said I was better suited at the level 3. I think id be okay if I could attend college even if once a week. But having said that my original tutor did leave in Jan and my new one is brill but just hard as I am effectively starting from scratch... xx