Nursery World - Meet the vet

Enjoy more activities focusing on our animal friends in all the setting's areas from role play to IT, with these ideas from Judith Stevens By creating a veterinary role-play area alongside your home corner you can give children the opportunity to pretend to be a vet, nurse or pet-owner.

By creating a veterinary role-play area alongside your home corner you can give children the opportunity to pretend to be a vet, nurse or pet-owner.

Other ideas in the final part of this wide-ranging project demonstrate how pets provide a focus for developing language and the ability to care about others.

This project:

3Identifies adult-led activities, to introduce or develop children's understanding of the topic through stimulating, meaningful experiences which offer challenge

3Suggests ways to enhance areas of core provision, to consolidate children's learning about the theme. It is the practitioners' role to make daily observations of children's learning which inform individual child profiles and future planning. Children should be encouraged to use the resources to support their own learning. This means that the possible learning outcomes will be wide-ranging and varied

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