Welcome Back

We are back on Wednesday 4th September 2019 and look forward to welcoming all the children and parents back to Young Risers Pre-School as well as welcoming some new faces.

Loose Parts Play

Just before the summer holidays Beckie went on Loose parts play training.  What is Loose parts play you say.

In play, loose parts are materials that can be moved, carried, combined, redesigned, lined up, and taken apart and put back together in multiple ways. They are materials with no specific set of directions that can be used alone or combined with other materials. Loose parts can be natural or synthetic. In a preschool outdoor environment we can provide an array of loose parts for use in play such as stones, stumps, sand, gravel, fabric, twigs, wood, pallets, balls, buckets, baskets, crates, boxes, logs, stones, flowers, rope, tyres, balls, shells and seedpods. Having "loose parts" available in a playspace allows children to use these materials as they choose. Often you will find that children would rather play with materials that they can use and adapt as they please, rather than expensive pieces of play equipment. Encouraging children to use resources as they choose can provide a wider range of opportunities than one that is purely adult led. Children playing with loose parts are using more creativity and imagination and developing more skill and competence than they would playing with most modern plastic toys. It may take a very open mind on our part (there is often a lot of cleaning up involved as materials end up in places you would never expect them to be) but when children cross play materials and areas in creative ways, it is our responsibility to support and encourage their work and ideas. 

Items Wanted

Any loose part objects you can donate from the underlined list above as well as anything else you think will be good for loose parts play, if your unsure of what to donate please ask a member of staff.

Do you know anyone that would have large empty cable reels that we could have.