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Spiral Theory
- Starts with free-flow play, which allows them to lead or create a game and explore for themselves.
- When the child is ready, the teacher to help guide the child to new ideas and ways of playing.
- Teacher uses adult-led play to teach and guide and then lets the child continue using child-led play with what they have been taught.
- This can include things like providing experiences and materials the child can use in their child-led play.
Positives
- Children will get the correct balance of child-led and adult-led play to develop their play and ideas.
- The child and adult will have more time together, allowing them time to bond and create healthy attachments.
- Children will be able to explore their interests and skills.
Negatives
- The children may become confused with the constant change from adult-led to child-led, and a lot of influence from the adult could cause the child-led play to not be fully child-led.
- The adult-led activities can be very time consuming which may be hard for a child to concentrate on for a long period of time. This can also take vital time out of the day for practitioners.
How can this theory can be supportive in early years settings?
- Through the use of free-flow play the practitioners can assess where the children are at in terms of stages of development and play, therefore being able to guide the children further using adult-led play to help them achieve developmental milestones they may struggle in.
- Settings can use this theory in their daily planning of the day using the structure related to it.
- Using this theory, practitioners can easily see what stage of development a child is at.

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Covers most areas of development, meaning many benefits

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Heuristic play involves allowing children to play with real world objects which are present in your home. This is so that children can explore familiar items in several ways without interference from an adult
Provides toddlers with first hand opportunities to explore space, measures and quantities which is developing their mathematic skills

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Creative Play
- can involve dance, music and singing as well as arts and crafts.
-  EYFS: physical, personal social and emotional, cognitive, expressive arts and design, communication and Language

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- Helps children with self-expression and imagination
- develops their physical, PSE, Cogitative, Expressive arts and design, and communication

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Heuristic play
Natural resources or objects that aren’t specifically created for play. For example, shells and pebbles or bottle caps.
Heuristic play is good for stimulating the senses and uses imagination.

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-Benefits of heuristic play are that it provides children with familiar  items that they can explore in several ways without the interference of an adult and they give babies an opportunity to explore, experiment and make choices at their own pace
-An example of heuristic play is treasure baskets that are filled with items that made from natural materials, such as a paint brushes, metal spoons, rolling pins, fir cones, and feathers.

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Physical play supports physical development, cognitive development, and can also develop a child's speaking and listening skills.

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Creative play is when the children create their own play from the objects around them. This could include drawing, painting, using boxes, role play, water and sand, music items.

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During sensory play is where children are given activities that stimulate their senses such as sight, smell, sound, taste and touch. Sensory play supports language development, cognitive growth, fine and growth motor skills, problem solving skills and social interaction.

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Sensory play includes only activity that stimulates a child’s senses of touch, smell, taste, sight and hear. As well as anything which engages movement and balance.
Children will learn about the world around them in a natural way through their senses

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Physical play is where children are engaged in some sort of physical activity which can consist of swinging, running, jumping, climbing and spinning etc. It focuses on physical development because they will be they will be developing their fine and gross motor skills, cognitive development because of their hand eye co - ordination as well as speech and listening skills for when they are playing team games such as football

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Supports children’s learning across all six aspects of learning, allowing them to practise their skills and develop new ones.

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Being flexible to allow for quiet, reflective and focused learning, maybe in a comfortable book corner, as well as more boisterous and physical play.

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Encourage independence and help children to develop a positive attitude towards learning.

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Staff deployment and ratios of practitioners to children
Weather
Accessibility
Negative staffing activities

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Promotes equality and support children to develop a greater understanding of others’ needs, cultures, religions and backgrounds.

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The environment plays a key role in supporting and developing a child’s learning and development.

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the environment plays a key role in supporting and developing a child's learning and development

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A proper enabling environment is made to support children's learning areas across six areas of the EYFS

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Providing an enabling environment links to the five Every Child Matters outcomes:Stay Safe, Be Healthy, Enjoy and Achieve, Make a positive contribution and Achieve Economic Well Being

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An enabling environment should be safe for the child with an adult there to risk assess at all times, this can mean that a child can do a task seen as “unsafe” if they were doing it with no support and safety considerations. For example climbing a tree or woodwork.

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An enabling environment is a physical indoor and outdoor environment, providing space accessibility and  resources, many theories backed this up such as Maria Montessori

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Although all the theorists have a lot of different ideas and views, ultimately they all seem to come to the same outcome that for children to learn they need environments that support them and allow them to explore.

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Works to provide an enabling environment for every child

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Piaget acknowledged that there was a connection between children and the environment. He said that a child cannot learn unless they are interacting with the environment trying new things and learning from their mistakes

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There are steiner settings which dont use any plastics if possible, and have no hard corners or brightly coloured toys. They only use natural resources (wood, beeswax crayons, sheep's fleeces). It encourages exploration and creativity

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Environments are important as they okay a key role in supporting and developing a child’s learning and development

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An enabling environment is a physical indoor/outdoor environment which provides:
space
stability
accessibility
displays
high quality resources

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The environment is important as it provides children with stimulation and challenge, it also enables them to explore and experiment

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He developed a different style of educating children