Collect stories for, and make books about, children in the group, showing things they like to do.
Ensure resources reflect the diversity of children and adults within and beyond the setting.
Self-confidence and Self-esteem
Consider ways in which you provide for children with disabilities to make choices, and express preferences about their carers and activities.
Display photographs of carers, so that when young children arrive, their parents can show them who will be there to take care of them.
Making Relationships
Regularly evaluate the way you respond to different children.
Choose books and stories in which characters show empathy for others.
Provide books which represent children's diverse backgrounds and which avoid negative stereotypes. Make photographic books about the children in the setting and encourage parents to contribute to these.
Behaviour and Self-control
Duplicate materials and resources to reduce conflict, for example, two tricycles or two copies of the same book.
Self-care
Ensure that there is time for young children to complete a self-chosen task, such as trying to put on their own shoes.
Sense of Community
Display pictures of groups of young children, showing what they look like, and the things they like to do, eat, or play with. Provide positive images of all children including those with diverse physical characteristics, including disabilities.
Support children's understanding of difference and of empathy by using props such as Persona dolls to tell stories about diverse experiences, ensuring that negative stereotyping is avoided.
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