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Enabling Environments: Role play - Around the nursery - Make believe
Nursery World,
1 May 2008
Resources for productive role play, and the best practice for organising and offering them, are outlined by Jane Drake in our series on continuous provision in an early years setting.
Photographs by Jim Wileman at Lescudjack Nursery, Penzance. A well-planned role-play area will enable children to represent and further explore real-life experiences and roles through play. However, for children to be able to make connections between their experience and provision, it is crucial that practitioners take time to find out about children's understanding and perceptions of possible themes. Within any setting there will be a range of unique experiences, and...
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