Enabling Environment

The environment plays a key role in supporting and extending children’s development and learning. Enabling environments encourage babies and young children to play because they feel relaxed, comfortable and ‘at home’ in them. When children feel emotionally safe and secure they are able to explore and find out about the place they are in and the things they can see, touch, manoeuvre or manipulate. In the EYFS the environment is described in terms of three aspects: The emotional environment, the outdoor environment, the indoor environment. These three aspects of the environment together make up the environment for play and learning in the EYFS.

Meadowlands has made every endeavour to ensure our physical environments, both indoors and out are stimulating, comfortable, interesting, attractive and appropriate areas for the children who use it and will hopefully come to feel like a second home to them during their time with us.