Play in the EYFS – The three little pigs

Good for looking at

• Eyfs curriculum and play
• Play outdoors
• Environment and materials

Notice

• Consider what learning will have had to happen before the children can use this provocation successfully?
• The children will need to have heard the story of the three little pigs and be familiar  and confident with the storyline.
• What will  practitioners have considered when providing the enhancements and resources to support the learning here?
• The number and type of resources needed to provide sufficient opportunities to explore and to play successfully , without overwhelming the children, but also providing opportunities for them to learn how to share and work together.

Reflect

• What do you notice about the involvement of practitioners here? Being quiet and allowing the children to be is just as important as interacting at the right time!
• How would you describe this play? Adult led? Child led? Adult Initiated? Child Initiated? Guided play? Direct instruction?
• If you were to measure the children’s levels of wellbeing and involvement in this clip using Leuven scales, how would you rate this?

Which areas of the curriculum are the children exploring in this short clip?

• Communication and language, listening to each other and taking turns in conversations. EAD retelling familiar narratives
• Literacy, comprehension, retelling familiar stories and joining in with familiar phrases from the story.
• PSED, working together, sharing, taking turns, playing alongside.
• PD, manipulating tools and objects with precision.
• UW – exploring the properties of different materials.

What next – planning

• What might you do next if you were observing these children?
  The children might document the story by taking photographs to support them with retelling the story. The photographs could be printed out to support sequencing and turned into a class story book.