From birth a baby is reliant on their key carer to cater for all of their individual needs.
It is important that a child receives the appropriate amount of rest and sleep as this allows them to re-energise whilst their brain activity is altering and their body is producing hormones to help them grow. If a child lacks sleep then they may be agitated, cuddly, crying, rubbing eyes or having tantrums. In a nursery the sleep and rest policy must be abided by. This states that the all children must lie on their back whilst sleeping, there must be no cot bumpers, the child must be placed in feet to foot position in a well-ventilated room, there should be no toys and the child must be checked at least every ten minutes.
All children need to have fresh air every day, as it makes them both physically and mentally healthier as well as providing them with vitamin d and interaction with more people. In a nursery a practitioner may do various activities to ensure that the children get some fresh air, including: going to the park, having a picnic and chasing bubbles outside. However, they should ensure that all the children are fully hydrated, are wearing sun cream and don’t go out at peak time.
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Practitioners should make it a fun skill so that it soon becomes a routine task. Moreover, after eating, a practitioner should wash a young child’s face with a clean cloth and dry it with a soft towel. Even though a child won’t be bathed at nursery, the child’s key carer should support the family and offer advice. It is also important that children are protected from the sun. Children should not be taken out during peak time, but when they are taken out the practitioner should ensure that sunhats are worn, sun cream is put on all exposed areas and sunshades are put on
D1/D2/A1 This piece of work will be focusing on a child aged 18 months starting a nursery day care setting. The two key issues that will be looked at in this assignment will be planning, preparing and reviewing for the child to settling into the setting. Secondly I will be looking into the child’s emotional support that the child may need when starting the setting, along with the attachments of the child that will need to be built or have already been put in place. When planning for a child to start a new setting there will be certain things that will need to be taken into consideration, for example; the child at hand may have never been separated from their primary carers beforehand.
Put babies on their backs and their feet at the bottom of the cot so that they cannot slip under the covers, no bumpers, doonas or pillows. Ensure that all areas for sleep and rest are well ventilated and have natural lighting, but no cots near windows by taking these reasonable
We create a positive and secure environment, working to ensure all children feel safe, appreciated and important. We do this by being inclusive, treating each child as an individual and promoting mutual respect. One of the most natural factors of being an Early Years Practitioner is nurturing the children in our care, this is salient in creating healthy attachments in children. We show this by using positive body language when interacting with children, we show them we are interested to help develop their sense of attachment and security. We are sensitive and attend to their needs, children
Explain the factors that need to be taken into account when assessing development: When assign children and young people sensitivity and accuracy needs to be taken into account. The following factors have to be considered: • Confidentiality It is usual and best practice to receive permission/consent from the parents/carers allowing you to carryout an observation on their child. Most parents consent to this but they usually do not want other parents or people that have no involvement with their child reading any reports. It is important not to leave any notes or records where they might be seen by others.
Explain the reasons why children and young people’s development may not follow the expected pattern: The reasons why children and young people’s development may not follow the expected patters is due to them maybe having a disability, emotional influences, physical influences, environmental influences, cultural influences, social influences, learning needs and communication skills. Children with disabilities require a lot more support than those without a disability in order to help them develop their skills and become more independent. Disabilities can affect more than one area of a child’s development depending on what disability they have and what support is available in order to help improve the child’s needs etc. Emotionally children are affected due to them maybe having signs of depression where they are quiet than the rest of the children and they shy away from joining in with different activities and getting involved with other children.
This promotes healthy infants physically and developmentally. “The most important
EYE13WB-1.1 Explain the role of the early years practitioner during: • nappy changing • toilet training • washing and bath time • skin, teeth and hair • meal time It is very important to establish a routine as an early year practitioner. Routines will support the physical care needs of children. It should provide a predictable and well-ordered environment, children know what to expect. They are comforting and provide regularity, especially for babies as they enable them to adjust to their own body rhythms.
One of the principles used within the nursery is Article 12 on children's voices being heard. Within the Fife Council Nurseries a learning wall is created from what the children are talking about and learning giving any visitors and enriched sight of what the children are doing within their time at nursery. This is also very useful for any other professional’s that come into the nursery as the individual children can choose to show professional’s/parents/carers their work at any time. Thus aiding communication and reflection with all parties
The Open University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Institute of Professional and Continuing Education PTD38 Higher Diploma in Early Childhood Education (2014-2015) ASSIGNMENT 1 MY PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION Student Number: 11396646 Student: CHENG KA YIU, YOYO Class: U09A Course Code: EDU4017EP Course Title: Introduction to Early Childhood Education Instructor: Ms. Hailey Chan Programme Leader: Dr. Eunice Yim Submission Date: 14 November 2014
The school that I attendent to was the child development center. I was looking around the environment where child development is place at really quiet neighborhood. The neighborhood has a lot of tree and not really intersection road. I came in 10/19/17 it was in the morning around 10 am but they had a earthquake drill.
Although not all the children will sleep, so for those children activities will have already been setup for them to do. I always ensure that I encourage children to use the toilet to allow them to become independent. I also demonstrated to the children about what is happening in order for them to follow instructions. I was aware of all the children’s dietary needs, allergies and religious beliefs. I worked in partnership with the children’s parents and carers to find out what food their child can and cannot have.
First of all, in order to understand the importance of wellbeing in the early years, it is important to quote lines from Sir Michael Marmot who maintains that “the foundations of virtually every aspect of human development- physical, intellectual, emotional- are laid in early years. What happens during these early years has lifelong effects on many aspects of health and wellbeing- from obesity, heart diseases and mental health to the educational achievement to economic status. ” Wellbeing may normally refer to physical as well as mental state in which development of both aspects of children is satisfactory (Allen et al, 2011). Wellbeing is a broad concept that includes medical as well as social element in defining children`s heath at the early years of their life.
There are a great number of studies that state that the first five years of a child’s development are the most important and that they will set the tone for the child’s ability to learn, socialize, and be a successful member of society. Because of this, proponents believe that preschool should become mandatory for all children. While this might seem like a good solution to some, preschool should not be mandatory for all children before they enter kindergarten. There are many factors to be considered in a child 's early development and to put a blanket demand on entering preschool, could be a disservice to some children based on parental influences, environmental factors, and the level of education and care being given in a particular home childcare
Both the reading and the lecture discuss preschool. The former states that preschool has many advantages such as early social skills. In contrast, the latter challenges the writer's point of view and maintains that they also have considerable things. First of all the reading passage claims that children acquire a chance to meet other kids and make new relationships which they didn't experience before. On the other hand, children have to receive individual attentions.
Babies have REM sleep and not deeper non-REM sleep, meaning they wake up easily, besides they have not adapted to the night day system and so tend to sleep more during the day and active at night. As a mother, you have to make sure that the baby has a quiet sleep for good health by creating a good, clean and quiet environment. Behavior Babies cannot talk but still in case of any discomfort or need for attention, they will communicate. They show different behavior to express how they feel. For the first one month, the most common is crying, it could be out of irritation because of the wet diaper or hunger.