Play Based Learning

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Play-based Learning Points

A Play-based Learning Environment Is Based on Child Led and Open-ended Play.
It Encourages Children to Engage With People, Objects and Their Environment.
Includes Providing Resources That Reflect Children’s Age, Interests, Knowledge, Strengths and Abilities to Stimulate and Support Their Own Learning.
A Play-based Program Allows Children to Explore, Experiment, Discover and Solve Problems in Imaginative and Playful Ways.
Play-based Learning Includes Free Play Initiated by the Child and Guided Play With Educator Involvement and Intentional Teaching Strategies.
The Early Years Learning Framework Defines Play-based Learning as ‘a Context for Learning Through Which Children Organise and Make Sense of Their Social Worlds, as They Engage Actively With People, Objects and Representations’.

Play Is an Essential Part of Every Child’s Learning. When Children Are Playing They Are Building Their Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes for Lifelong Learning.
Dedicated Play Spaces Assist Children to Learn How to Solve Problems, Persevere, Compromise and Cooperate With Others.
When Playing, Children May Be Organising, Constructing, Manipulating, Pretending, Exploring, Investigating, Creating, Interacting, Imagining, Negotiating and Making Sense of Their Worlds.
Play-based Learning Promotes Physical, Social, Emotional, Cognitive and Creative Development
In Play-based Learning Each Child Is Able to Take on an Active Role in Their Own Learning and Development Curriculum.