Vary activities so that children are introduced to different materials.
Plan activities that require collaboration.
Make materials easily accessible to all children, to ensure everybody can make choices.
Self-confidence and Self-esteem
Plan extra time for helping children in transition, such as when they move from one setting to another or between different groups in the same setting.
Provide role-play areas with a variety of resources reflecting diversity.
Making Relationships
Provide stability in staffing and in grouping of the children.
Provide time, space and materials for children to collaborate with one another in different ways, for example, building constructions.
Provide a role-play area resourced with materials reflecting children's family lives and communities.
Behaviour and Self-control
Set, explain and maintain clear, reasonable and consistent limits so that children can play and work feeling safe and secure.
Collaborate with children in creating explicit rules for the care of the environment.
Self-care
Plan opportunities for children to take the initiative in their learning.
Provide means for children to keep track of, and share, their achievements.
Build on children's ideas to plan new experiences that present challenges.
Sense of Community
Provide activities and opportunities for children to share experiences and knowledge from different parts of their lives with each other.
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