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Unpicking Ofsted Reports, part 6: meeting children’s needs 2

Pennie Akehurst asks Fiona Holiday, a certified therapeutic play practitioner, what must be in place to meet the needs of children and get the best out of them

Meeting the needs of children is the subject that receives the most recommendations and actions each term, as we acknowledged in last month’s article. There, we focused on how this translates to supporting staff to feel safe and thus be more creative in their approaches. But these recommendations are often spread over a wide range of areas such as teaching and learning, assessment and planning, the quality of the learning environment, behaviour management and the knowledge of staff.

The other common issues that consistently raised their head in relation to meeting the needs of children were a need to:

extend children’s opportunities to develop their independence, to gain further skills to support their future learning

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