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Play Leadership
Level 3 Course
from £120 per month
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code: VRE101
Uninterrupted play is important for a child’s social, physical and mental development; play encourages brain development, stimulates creativity, increases a child’s academic ability, and enhances quality of life through to adulthood. Children who have learnt how to play, will have a more playful and creative approach to life as adults.
This course is relevant to the provision of play opportunities for children, and teenagers.
Lesson Structure
- Understanding Play Leadership Skills
- Planning Play Programs
- Child Development through Play
- Play Safety
- Physical Play
- Social Play
- Adventure Playground.
- Play Apparatus Activities plus Special Project
Aims
- To explain the purpose of play in the cognitive, physical and social development of a child.
- To determine the skills required to carry out a play leadership role in different situations
- To develop a plan for a supervised children's play program.
- To develop a basic understanding of the impact of play upon the psychological development of a child.
- To determine appropriate measures to take to protect a child's safety when at play, while minimising any interference which might diminish the quality of the play experience.
- To develop an understanding of options for physical play activities, including games and sports, in a supervised play program. To develop an understanding of options for social play activities, in a supervised play program.
- To develop a basic ability to plan, establish and manage a supervised adventure
- To develop an ability to evaluate a range of different play apparatus, including playground structures, toys, sports equipment, commenting on quality, safety features, appropriate applications and cost benefit.
- To broaden your scope of opportunities that can be offered for children to play, appropriate to a wide range of different situations.
Delivery
- Correspondence
- Online
Accreditation and memberships
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