Nursery World - Get the picture

Photographs, whether taken by children or adults will, say Linda Thornton and Lena Engel, be a valuable resource for stimulating children in the early years setting Cameras from the humble disposable to the high-resolution digital provide enormous potential for early years settings. Photographic images can foster learning across the early years curriculum, developing children's understanding of themselves, others and the world around them.

Cameras from the humble disposable to the high-resolution digital provide enormous potential for early years settings. Photographic images can foster learning across the early years curriculum, developing children's understanding of themselves, others and the world around them.

Photographs and photography can stimulate children to express their thoughts, experiences and feelings thereby enriching their vocabulary and discussion skills.

Visual portrayal of patterns in the natural and man-made world provide opportunities for the development of mathematical language and understanding.

Photographic images can stimulate children to develop their own perspectives on design, to ask questions and to develop problem-solving skills.

Visual images provide adults with opportunities for asking sensitive and probing questions that will extend the children's perspectives on the past and the present and enable them to widen their knowledge of places.

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