Hi and welcome to the site, look to how this type of environment supports children's - and adult
independance, encourages participation and addresses needs by noticing what's needed & when.
Evaluation of caring/nuture/response will show how you can see children's confidence, self esteem, self worth, a balanced view of values and priorities develop.
To care - look after, protect, attend needs, support, encourage, promote.
Care noun & verb,
nurture,
response.
Caring for children I feel is a right, where wanted of adults as children's direct access to finance, resources, language is prevented/restricted through perception, age & stage of development.
Nurture is controversial -
nature V nurture
Creating more nurturing environments for children is a good read.
Responding to children enables them access to their
rights - eg. expression & information, when and how you respond to a request/need gives children the ability to evaluate if it is a positive or a negative one, it's an experience and knowledge that will remain/impact on them.
Evaluating also helps a setting to ask or to state: Children are able to approach staff, children and adults are able to make genuine, intentional and unintentional mistakes and not be discriminated against. Children participate in activities in their own way, when and where they feel it appropriate.
A really good way to see how all this is in action is to take a look through your group's prospective, welcome booklet, parent partnership literature - maybe policies & procedures if you haven't access to the others - what does the prospectus say and why does it say it.
Hope this helps
Enjoy Silkysteps
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