| Variant title |
Role play : managing and changing |
| Series |
Early years
Early years. ^A1162167
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| Abstract |
Worcestershire County Council Early Years advisor Sheila Sage explores the planning and setting up of a role-play area.Sheila and her colleague Sue Durant watch the work of practitioners at Stanley Road Primary School. They follow the development of two linked role-play areas, an outdoor garage scene and a forecourt shop inside the classroom, which are inspired by the children's own ideas and natural play. The practitioners link this role-play with the theme of travel and journeys that is already being covered by the pupils within the Foundation Stage Unit.The children visit local petrol stations and shops to give them first hand experience of a working garage and watch a film to stimulate thoughts and ideas which are used to assemble the role-play area emphasising the importance of making the children feel part of the scene they have helped to create.The role-play featured in the programme provides learning opportunities across all six areas of the curriculum. |
| Abstract |
Early Years adviser Sheila Sage offers tips and advice on how to manage and change a role-play area once it has been established. We follow the progress at Stanley Road School after a garage and forecourt shop play area has been set up in the classroom. The role-play area is adapted as the children find new ways of developing characters and scenarios within the garage. The practitioners play the roles of customers, mechanics and car drivers. Sheila Sage emphasises the value of close observation so that future play can be shaped on exactly how the children have adapted the role-play space for their needs.Some of the children have fathers who are taxi drivers and this experience helps drive the role-play in a new direction as the children begin creating their own cabs made from cardboard boxes.Finally, Sheila Sage advises that when the children eventually become bored, it is time to create a fresh project. |
| General note | Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012). |
| Other forms | Previously released as DVD. |
| Language | This edition in English. |
| Genre/form | Instructional television programs. |
