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What is role play? Children love to pretend and they use their imagination to see how it feels to be someone else, this is called role play and the children can experience without taking any risk.
Personal, Social, and Emotional Development (PSE)
We provide the opportunity for the children to take on different roles, explore their feelings, learn more about the world around them and add new words to increase their language.
Home corner
The Nursery is provided with a home corner. Children love to spend hours in this area, which is fully fitted with a kitchen, cooker, iron board and iron, baby bed and dolls, tables, chairs, cutlery, crockery, fruits, vegetables and other foodstuffs!
This area is very important to young children as it reminds them of their own home, kitchen and family, and is often the first area they play with when they are starting Nursery, they imagine their role as mothers, fathers, cooks, housekeepers, maids, or helper and keeps them feeling secure. The home corner enables children to cook, wash, iron, put the baby to bed, make cups of tea, etc… all increasing their social sharing and language skills.
Hello dolly
Dolls are the nearest thing to another human being. In children's activities they
play a large part in role play, as comforters and as an aid to developing hand to
eye co-
Themed areas
There are many other different types of role play situations that we can introduce, and we try to link them to topics throughout the year.
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Play and learning
When we provide an area for role play, we promote "learning through play" for example, when the children are playing in the play hospital area with hospital instruments and practicing on the dolls (and each other!) they learn not to be afraid of doctors and nurses. In the play shop they learn to deal with money and service and every day items needed for daily shopping and eating. With the right adult intervention we can stretch the children's play, helping them to develop imagination and new skills.
Dressing up box
We provide a variety of dressing up clothes for role play and animal costumes. We encourage the children to dress and undress themselves using accessories of bags and hats.
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Young children are fascinated both by the world of make believe and by small objects. Small world play and role play plays a large part of their lives, offering them the chance to explore the physical world as well as their own feelings and relationships with other people.
Puppets, dolls and play figures can provide the means to escape into a world of fantasy. Model farms, garages and hospitals along with all the accessories, can help young children to find out how things work and the way the environment functions.
Play is the way through which young children learn, as they are continually investigating and exploring and trying to make sense of their world and what they see, hear and feel. The House of Colours places a great deal of emphasis on planning topics that are practical and enjoyable learning activities.
The presence of an adult helper can increase a child's concentration, promote and
stimulate discussion and extend their vocabulary. It is essential to observe the
child carefully and not impose your ideas but instead ask open ended questions to
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Recently we have introduced this topic through circle time discussion, posters, books,
songs and lots of accessories. Our Learning objective is -
Questions to ask -
Children's play tasks
I HEAR AND I FORGET
I SEE AND I UNDERSTAND
I DO AND I REMEMBER
Regards
Miss Christine O'Connor
Nursery Director
Role Play