Give children opportunities to complete activities to their satisfaction.
Encourage children to explore and talk about what they are learning, valuing their ideas and ways of doing things.
Explain why it is important to pay attention when others are speaking. Give children opportunities both to speak and to listen, ensuring that the needs of children learning English as an additional language are met, so that they can participate fully.
Self-confidence and Self-esteem
Invite people from a range of cultural backgrounds to talk about aspects of their lives or the things they do in their work, such as a volunteer who helps people become familiar with the local area.
Support children's growing ability to express a wide range of feelings orally, and talk about their own experiences.
Encourage children to share their feelings and talk about why they respond to experiences in particular ways.
Explain carefully why some children may need extra help or support for some things, or why some children feel upset by a particular thing. This helps children to understand that when it is required their individual needs will be met.
Help children and parents to see the ways in which their cultures and beliefs are similar, encouraging them to contribute to everyone's knowledge and understanding by sharing and discussing practices, resources, celebrations and experiences.
Making Relationships
Support children in linking openly and confidently with others, for example, to seek help or check information.
Ensure that children and adults make opportunities to listen to each other and explain their actions.
Be aware of and respond to particular needs of children who are learning English as an additional language.
Explaining the rules - In a reception class, a practitioner supports a child to discuss what has upset her and help her understand the need for boundaries. [transcript]
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Meeting individual needs - In the nursery class, the practitioner supports an individual child in his home language while exploring a till and money. [transcript]
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Behaviour and Self-control
Be alert to injustices and let children see that they are addressed and resolved.
Ensure that children have opportunities to identify and discuss boundaries, so that they understand why they are there and what they are intended to achieve.
Help children's understanding of what is right and wrong by explaining why it is wrong to hurt somebody, or why it is acceptable to take a second piece of fruit after everybody else has had some.
Involve children in identifying issues and finding solutions.
Self-care
Give children opportunities to be responsible for setting up, and clearing away, some activities.
Praise children's efforts to manage their personal needs, and to use and return resources appropriately.
Sense of Community
Strengthen the positive impressions children have of their own cultures and faiths, and those of others, by sharing and celebrating a range of practices and special events.
Encourage children to talk with each other about similarities and differences in their experiences, and the reasons for these, supported by props for telling stories, reflecting experiences of children who are both like them and different from them.
Develop strategies to combat negative bias and, where necessary, support children and adults to unlearn discriminatory attitudes.
Acknowledgements
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