How 'Child Led' works for us
All 'Child Led' learning requires following the interests of the child, but the environment in which they're learning needs both steer and support what the children want to know. There are a few factors that influence this, the site and provision being the main two. As we have our own relatively secure site on school grounds, we can develop our site to entice children to explore something new, and we can work WITH children to create something they want. We aim to have a lot of different activities constantly available to classes. They need to be accessible to children aged 4 to 11, and as independent to use as possible! These are a few of them: A Nature Table of things the children have found and wanted information on, from moss & Lichen, to fossils and rock, to seed cases and leaves, and including feathers and bones! If I have a book or ID sheet to support looking these things up I leave it on the unit so children can access pictures and information when I'm not...