Learning & Development: Independent learning - All by myself

Nursery World, 28 May 2008

Provision to enable and challenge the youngest children to direct their own learning is carefully thought out at a centre visited by Nicole Weinstein.

It's 9am. Mozart music is playing in the background and Sam is sitting in the hanging chair watching the other children play. Cora is in the tent tending the dolls, Lucas is painting at the easel and Amelie and Aisling are in the garden watching the wrens nesting. This is a typical after-breakfast scene at the baby room at Archway Children's Centre in the London borough of Islington. The children, aged 11 months to two years,...

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