There are many benefits of play-based learning in the early years, including the development of intellectual skills, thinking and motivation. Play-based learning is a concept that teachers at BYS adopt as part of their teaching practices. Our Early Years Learning Framework defines ‘play-based learning as a context for learning through which students make sense of their social worlds and through their engagement with people, objects and representations’. Play- based learning allows early year students to develop both literacy and numeracy skills and at the same time cultivate their social and emotional skills.
Here are the four ways play-based learning is integrated in our early-year classrooms: