Puddle Lane

1. To support children's play and learning and enable them to achieve their full potential management and staff should: • Review and further develop their approaches to child-led planning, by ensuring appropriate levels of challenge and depth that supports children's curiosity and creativity. • Consideration should be given to how individualisation is captured within planning. In addition, planning should be closely linked to observations in children's profiles or ‘being me books’ where meaningful next steps should be recorded. These should be monitored to ensure consistent quality of written observations. • Staff should be supported in developing their understanding of quality experiences, observations and planning cycles. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS), which state that: 'As a child, I can direct my own play and activities in the way that I choose, and freely access a wide range of experience1. To support positive outcomes and inspire children to engage and sustain their play and learning management and staff should: • Improve the indoor and outdoor environments with a view to developing resources, including loose parts play materials, creating experiences and provocations that inspire children’s curiosity, creativity and imagination that develops and enhances their sense of wellbeing, wonder and adventure. This is to ensure care, play and learning is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which states that: 'As a child, I can direct my own play and activities in the way that I choose, and freely access a wide range of experiences and resources suitable to my age and stage, which stimulate my natural curiosity, learning and creativity.' (HSCS 2.27).