Back in March 2009, as a staff group we decided to experiment with role play and to allow the boys in our Foundation Stage setting more freedom with weapons and superhero play, under certain conditions, such as making decisions with the children and allowing them to agree terms and conditions.
This study proved superbly successful and launched a new and improved style of teaching within the setting. However, over the years additional ideas and projects have also come into precedence, taking over somewhat.
But this year has brought a new batch of 'mini superheroes' into the pre-school whose main focus of play is to 'fight' crime (or each other), daily. This has initiated a review among staff on our superhero policy, introduced in 2009. We decided that we would refresh our policy ideas and reinstate our theories, such as 'if we have superhero figures, small world play and so on, will they imaginary play fight rather than physically fight each other?'
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