Effective Practice

1. To be accountable for the delivery of high quality provision within the setting
2. Encourage other practitioners to have high expectations of all children and to demonstrate commitment to ensuring that they can achieve their full potential
3. Establish and sustain a safe, welcoming, purposeful, stimulating and encouraging environment where children feel confident and secure and are able to develop and learn
4. Promote the use of informed observation and other strategies to monitor children’s activity, development and progress systematically and carefully, and to use this information to inform, plan and improve practice and provision
5. Plan and provide safe, appropriate, child-led and adult initiated experiences, activities and play opportunities in indoor, outdoor and in out-of-setting contexts, which enable children to develop and learn
6. Select, prepare and use a range of resources suitable for children’s ages, interests and abilities, taking account of diversity and promoting equality and inclusion
7. Actively support the development of children’s language and communication skills
8. Promote positive behaviour, self-control and independence through using effective behaviour management strategies and developing children’s social, emotional and behavioural skills
9. Promote children’s rights, equality, inclusion and anti-discriminatory practice in all aspects of the setting
10. Establish and maintain a safe environment and employ practices that promote children’s health, safety and physical, mental and emotional well-being
11. Encourage all practitioners to recognise when a child is in danger or at risk of harm and know how to act to protect them
12. Support the process of effective assessment, recording and reporting on progress in children’s development and learning and use this as a basis for differentiating provision
13. Encourage all practitioners to talk to children, giving constructive and sensitive feedback to help children understand what they have achieved and think about what they need to do next
14. Introduce/ maintain a positive and proactive culture amongst practitioners in being able to identify and support children whose progress, development or well-being is affected by changes or difficulties in their personal circumstances, ensuring staff know when to refer them to colleagues for specialist support