Nursery World - Series guide (5)

To deliver the Foundation Stage curriculum effectively, practitioners need to consider three levels of planning: * long-term plans, which chart the learning opportunities that will be offered through continuous and permanent provision

* long-term plans, which chart the learning opportunities that will be offered through continuous and permanent provision

* medium-term plans, which cover the enhancements that will be made to the permanent provision over the next two to six weeks

* short-term plans, which cover how to respond to an individual child's interests or needs over the next few days.

Settings have tended to focus on medium-term plans (often based around topics) at the expense of short-term planning. This series aims to illustrate the importance of short-term planning in furthering children's learning by taking practitioners through the key steps involved in identifying and responding to a child's current interest or need.

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