Shared care – observation clip 5 Scroll to learning area

Four year olds Seth and Davide are playing in the garden. Antonella supports Davide’s key person when she thinks it is needed.

Good for looking at

• The key person approach
• Multiple attachments
• Attachment at nursery
• Attachment behaviour
• Support for the key person

Notice

• What evidence do you see of practitioners supporting each other to enable an effective key person approach?
• How do practitioners support children when their key person is not available?

Reflect

What are your thoughts about:

• Seth and Davide’s states, what did their verbal communication, gestures and body language tell you?
• Their level of development – what stage of the attachment process do they seem to be at?
• The role of the adults in this interaction – how did they support Seth and Davide?
• How did the adult’s support each other?

Further reflection

(you may want to watch more observation clips before moving on to further reflection)

• When might you need support from others with your key children?
• What might prevent effective information sharing?
• Why do you think shared care is important: for the child, for the parents, for the practitioner?

Respond

• What action can be put in place to improve how you support each other?
• Do you share information effectively? Could this be improved?
• Does shared care work better in some rooms rather than others? Could you organise for planned observations to share nest practice in your setting?