Nursery World - Nursery Equipment: Community

Nurseries should echo society's diversity and combat biased attitudes. Mary Evans explains how.

Practitioners who are adept at buying resources and preparing an environment to encourage children's learning and development in areas such as language, literacy and numeracy sometimes struggle when it comes to finding new materials to support personal, social and emotional development.

It can be challenging to take a concept such as 'sense of community' and translate that into a shopping list for resources or a plan for the room that will help instil in young children an understanding that:

Jane Lane, an advocate worker for racial equality in the early years, says, 'When you are setting up a nursery you need to make sure the culture and background of the children who might come to your nursery are reflected in your resources. You need to think about how your resources will make the staff and children feel included, valued, and respected.

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