Qualification: NCFE CACHE Level 2 Diploma for the Early Years Practitioner
Unit: EYP 8: Promote play in an Early Years Setting
Learning outcome: 4. Be able to support different types of play for babies and young children
Assessment criteria: 4.1 Describe benefits of: physical play, creative play, imaginative play, sensory play, heuristic play
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- Benefits of physical play
- Maintain a strong and healthy body
- Develop gross motor skills
- Develop balance and coordination
- Supports growth
- Develops confidence and positive risk-taking
- Releases endorphins that give children a good sense of wellbeing
- Benefits of creative play
- Develop fine motor skills
- Learn about textures and materials
- Can be used for expression (e.g. drawing pictures etc.)
- Develops confidence and tenacity
- Develops coordination
- Can support literacy and mathematics
- Benefits of imaginative play
- Encourages social interaction
- Encourages expression (e.g. children can express their own feelings by pretending to be someone else)
- Develops empathy
- Can support the development of fine and gross motor skills
- Benefits of sensory play
- Develop fine and gross motor skills
- Learn about textures and materials
- Can be used for expression
- Can support literacy and mathematics
- Can be therapeutic
- Benefits of heuristic play
- A description of heuristic play is provided here
- Learn about textures and materials
- Learn about the different properties of objects – this can support mathematics
- Develops focus
- Develops coordination
- Develops confidence
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