Reception Self-Isolation Home Learning Support Pack If you are reading this, you are self-isolating at home and need to transfer to remote learning for the time being. Enclosed in this pack are ideas and resources that can keep your child learning over the next few days, whilst the teachers prepare more specific learning and resources for this point of the year.
Often adults think that learning happens when a teacher imparts some information or coaches a skill and then makes the children do it. This is partly how we learn. However, the vast majority of time in Early Years is spent playing. As Einstein said; ‘Play is the highest form of research’. When a child is playing, they are experimenting, investigating, creating and discovering. If you witness your child being focussed, excited, engaged, concentrating or motivated, then brain connections ARE literally being made. Your child is making progress and this is learning. As adults, we need to understand the crucial role of play to a child’s development and facilitate it. A big part of your role over the next few days is creating an open-ended environment that enables your child to independently play and therefore concentrate for extended periods of time. This then releases you to do your work too.