I aim to support children to feel safe, be healthy, achieve well, feel nurtured, be active, respected, responsible and to feel included.

Safe:

Our children have opportunities to develop personal safety skills and understanding, make their own decisions, cope with challenges and learn skills for life.

Healthy:

Our children have daily opportunities for outdoor loose parts play, with access to nature all year round in almost all weathers, in an ethos that supports children’s overall wellbeing.

Achieving:

Our children are supported to experience challenging, risky adventurous play, that allows a sense of achievement, success and exhilaration; they have opportunities for creativity, including using problem solving strategies, higher order thinking, communication and imagination.

Nurtured:

Our children have spaces that have meaning, feel safe and where they gain a sense of autonomy, belonging and place- attachment; they have adults around them who support their play processes respectfully and sensitively; they have access to suitable outdoor clothing and footwear to enable all year round outdoor loose parts play.

Active:

Our children have the freedom to fully engage in play, be physically active and use their bodies, muscles, stamina, dexterity and strength through playing with loose parts.

Respected:

Our children have their right ot play respected and supported; they have opportunities to be actively involved in maintaining, evaluating and developing our loose parts play provision; they feel listened to, however they communicate.

Responsible:

Our children have opportunities to collaborate with others and have to take responsibility for others, for resources and for the environment.

Included:

Our children are able to play in their own way and at a pace that they choose, following their own interests; they are allowed to play alone, in a small group, with children of other ages, or as part of our local community; they have help and support to play in the way that they would like.