Set up two (2) play environments - one indoors and one outdoors.

This plan of experiences should include the following:

• An area for an individual child and an area for group collaborative play
• Resources and materials suited to the play
• A set-up that is safe while being non-threatening, challenging, stimulating and promoting a sense of belonging
• describe in detail each environment

Q2 Provide the policy or procedure that you must follow relating to safety.

Design a poster, display or other information-sharing method to convey these messages for one experience:

a)The age of children whose abilities would be suited to this experience; explain why a child of this age may be interested in this experience

b)What play stages you expect the children to use when in the environment; there may be more than one stage

c)What learning the children may gain from this play environment; refer to the following development areas and specify the learning that may be gained:

• Physical
• Social, emotional and moral
• Cognitive
• Language/communication
• Spiritual
• Creative

d) What benefits the children will gain if the experience is not hurried

Q3. Locate the following statements in the frameworks and standards and give an example of how your service provides an environment for play to address each statement.

A) 'Children have the right to relax and play, and to join in a wide range of cultural, artistic and other recreational activities'. (The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 31)

b) 'Each child's current knowledge, ideas, culture, abilities and interests are the foundation of the program'. (National Quality Standard, Element 1.1.2)

c) 'Play provides opportunities for children to learn as they discover, create, improvise and imagine'. (The Early Years Learning Framework, page 15, and My time, our place - Framework for School Age Care in Australia, page 14)