The topic I am going to being doing for my project at my placement at Camperdown nursery is the benefits of outdoor play. There are seven benefits of outdoor play for children, they are learning, creativity, health, social skills, wellbeing and independence. Outdoor play encourages children to go outside and get fresh air and burn off some energy, it can improve their physical development. This relates to my placement as the children get the opportunity to go outside and run about as much as possible on a daily basis. The reason for my chosen topic is because I am interested in finding out more about all the benefits of outdoor play and how it has an impact on the child’s physical and social development. I would also like to find out more about …show more content…
Also the impact it has on the child’s physical and social development. Objectives 1. I will complete a literature Review in order to find out the benefits of outdoor play and I will get my information from internet, books and placement. This will be completed by 20th April 2016 2. I will review the play policies in my setting and see what information I can gather on outdoor play. This will be completed by 23rd March 2016 3. I will complete 2/3 various types of observations on children in my setting to see how it impacts on their physical and social development. This will be completed by 9th March 2016 4. I will complete a face to face interview with a practitioner in my setting to get their views on outdoor play. This will be completed by 16th March 2016 5. I will complete all my work and evaluate everything I found out and how well I thought it all went. This will be completed by 4th May 2016 I had a meeting with my tutor and I discussed with her what my topic was, I explained why I was interested in doing it. I explained what my aims were and I was told it sounded good. My tutor agreed that this topic is a good one to …show more content…
They can explore the outdoors and do activity that they enjoy. This topic links to the curriculum and GIRFEC as every child has the right to have their needs met and to be protected. The curriculum is to give children equal opportunities to learn and develop their own ability with a holistic approach. The Play Strategy for Scotland is a national initiative that is very much relevant to my topic. The main aim is to create the best place for children to grow up in Scotland. It also aims to achieve making children able to play safely in their environment. The initiative links to my topic as it identifies the importance of play being a life-enhancing daily experience and its contribution to a happy, healthy childhood. The Play Strategy also protects children’s ability to play. (The Scottish Government, 2013) My topic links to the curriculum for Excellence as it emphasises that children learn through active play such as spontaneous play, planned, purposeful play along with investigating and exploring. (Scottish Executive Education Department,
Promoting fun, learning and the wonder of childhood by showcasing the natural connection of playing and learning in programs, events and environments and influencing community development, business practices and educational systems
The main point of this book it to express the importance of outdoor play and
When Albert Einstein stated that “play is the highest form of research,” I believe that from a child's perspective he could not have been anymore right. Through analyzing the play episodes of a four year old girl named Noelle, I was able to relate my observations to research and theory regarding the development and benefits of play that influence the social, emotional, and cognitive development of children. As children play they learn which helps them to progress and develop their minds and social skills. Play is one of the most influential exercises to progressively develop children.
Risky play is an important part of children’s play and children have shown a natural desire of outdoor risky play in the early years of ages (Brussoni, Olsen, Pike & Sleet, 2012). Risky play refers to play that allows children to feel excited and may lead to physical injury (Sandseter, 2007). In the video Adventurous play-Developing a culture of risky play, the interviewer Neville had discussed risky play with five educators. By consulting from this video, this report will provide rationales which are for creating opportunities for risky play in the child care centres, explain how to achieve the outcomes of the Early Years Learning Framework through planning for risky play. It then attempts to analyse the observational learning in Bandura’s
Play supports children’s physical development as when they are playing they are being active and exercising their body. It is important that children develop strength and stamina from a young age and through
The article states Play time is important for kids because, it increases original thinking and emotinal health as well.
30 minutes, that is how long the average American boy or girl spends in unstructured outdoor play each day, and more than 7 hours each day in front of an electronic. There are many reasons why children should play outside like, spending time outside raises levels of Vitamin D, helping protect children from future bone problems, heart disease, diabetes and other health issues. Schools with environmental education programs score higher on standardized tests in math, reading, writing and listening. If children play outside, they will get exercise and be less likely to become obese, kids will have less health problems, and it reduces stress.
An Article by Dr. Leong and Dr. Bodrova (2016) stated that play is beneficial to children’s learning especially when it reaches a certain degree of complexity. When they engage in play activities most of their early years, they learn to delay gratification and to prioritize their goals and actions. They also learn to consider the perspectives and needs of other people and to represent things significantly to regulate their behavior and actions in a cautious, intentional way.
Children develop normally when they are exposed to different types of play that allow them to express themselves while using their imaginations and being physically active. According to the Center for Health Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness, “Play is child’s work”; this is true because it is a child’s job to learn and develop in their first few years of life, in order for them to do this, they play. Not only is playing a child’s full time job, the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights listed play as a right of every child. Through their full time job of play, the children develop emotionally, socially, physically, and creatively. Children need to participate in child-led play in order to facilitate healthy development of their minds, body, and creativity.
I choose to research what I observed in the park. I noticed that many of the school age children were playing with each other even though they were making fun of each other faults. Playing games allow children to make decisions and to develop problem solving skills that they can use later on in life. Playing also affects the children emotionally. It allows them to control their emotional states, and thus they find joy and happiness during play. When they are interacting with their peers, whom they considered to be their equal counterparts. Socializing with each other helps children to improve their mental health.
Article 31 from the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC, 1989) states the right to play is for children to engage in activities freely that are age appropriate. All individuals should endorse equal opportunities for leisure, artistic, cultural and recreational activities. The right of play is important element for education as it is instrumental for achieving health and peak development. (Lester, S., Russell, W. 2010 p. ix) states that rest, leisure and play are combined into a child’s life to be controlled by each individual child not to be coordinated by an adult. Play is children being in control of their own doings; play is allowing children to create, explore, imagine problem solve and experiment in a way in which
Outdoor play allows children to play and explore an outdoor environment while engaging in minimal risk. The outdoor environment always the children to let off steam whilst engaging in a stimulating environment. In accordance to Síolta standard 2 Environments, Component 2.5 “The outdoor environment should provide a variety of developmentally appropriate, challenging, diverse, creative, and enriching experiences for all children” (Síolta, 2010, p20). Donohue and Gaynor believe that many of the activities that practitioners carry out indoors can be adapted to the outdoor environment with many additional opportunities. (Donohue & Gaynor, 2007, p.66). The activity that has been carried out is an activity that can be easily altered to an outdoor
Outdoor play is a huge part of healthy growth, learning, development and wellbeing for the child (Raising Children Network, 2006). Outside play can also mean more mess – and more mess often means more fun! ‘The opportunity to connect with the natural world; first hand experiences of life and growth; endless opportunities for creativity and imagination; improved fitness and physical development – the countless advantages of outdoor play have a real positive influence on children’s lives’ (Willoughby, 2014). All children have the right to play. In this bustle world, where parents and children are rushing from one thing to another, it is good to make time for children to play and enjoy (KidsMatter Early Childhood). Children at kindergarten must
Holistic development of young children is the key determination and through play they are able to survive and become physically healthy, able to learn, and emotionally secure and into where they progress into responsible and productive adults with positive reinforcements in the future. When there are societal issues that are barriers such as “technology, childhood obesity, culture, etc.” (Gaston, A, Module 1, Unit 1, 2016), children are then unable to revel in freedom of movement in where play is adventurous and brings out positive behavior. “Play supports the holistic development through the development of intellectual, emotions, socially, physical, creative and spiritual” (Gaston, A, Module 1, Unit 2, 2016), signifying that holistic development is an important factor to be aware of as the child grows. An example would be when in Workshop 1 of Social and Cognitive Styles of Play, we had to play in the given activity for the time being and observe our members and distinguish what kind of cognitive play it was. And one of the assigned question to
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