Nursery World - Nursery Equipment: Areas of Learning

Covering all seven areas of learning in the EYFS, Nicole Weinstein and sector experts highlight natural and bought resources to encourage risk-taking and provide challenge

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Risk and challenge threads through every area of learning and development. There’s no quick-fix solution to providing it: ‘designated areas for risk’ in a nursery would be as far off the point as a tick-box spreadsheet with the outcome ‘attempted a risky activity today’.

Risk is relative to each individual and it cannot be easily defined. Therefore practitioners must be attuned to what a child might perceive as risky. For example, coming to a setting for the first time is a risky situation for a toddler – and meeting a new creature such as a guinea pig can feel very risky, even for a confident four-year-old.

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