Teachers TV: Enabling Environments

Investigating the rewards of a positive EYFS learning environment: The Early Years unit in Leeds demonstrate how the enabling environment, themes and principles look on the ground. Practitioners reflect on a Reggio approach and how this fits in with EYFS requirements. Professor Chris Pascal from the Centre for Research in Early Childhood helps to unpack the EYFS document and relate it to some of the children’s projects. This programme looks at how the physical and emotional environment can support learning activity, and how both the children and practitioners make records of learning.

Oakwood Primary’s foundation stage unit is typical of many in inner cities. They’ve spent time developing a learning environment capable of supporting child-centred play, the children themselves having an input into how the environment looks and operates. The practitioners reflect on their move towards a ‘Reggio’ approach and how this fits in with the requirements of the new EYFS.