Nursery World - EYFS training, part 1: child-initiated learning

Do you really know what child-initiated learning looks like? Mary Evans identifies further training directions, in the first of a new series on improving skills to meet EYFS requirements.

Early years practitioners are now well familiar with the term 'child-initiated learning', but they are not always confident about putting it into practice.

A change in job role and the arrival of a new head teacher prompted Kim McGrail, the main nursery teacher and SENCO at Basnett Street Nursery School in Burnley, to go on a child-initiated learning course run by Early Excellence.

'I have always been a reception or Key Stage One teacher and I moved down to the nursery, so I wanted to develop and further embed my knowledge of child-initiated play,' she says.

'We had a new head teacher come in at the start of the year and we wanted to re-arrange the nursery, so the child led the planning rather than us.

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