Child-led learning in the early years allows children to thrive while making accelerated progress. Young children learn and develop best when they are in a stimulating environment which is carefully organised and equipped to meet their needs, interests and stages of development, and where each child s progress is carefully observed, managed and enhanced by adults who engage and interact with them to support them in making outstanding progress.

Demonstrating how a child-led approach supports the development of purposeful, calm, confident and independent children, "The Nursery Year in...

Children are hard-wired to learn and they learn best by being active and autonomous exploring, discovering, creating and taking risks, in other words, by playing. However, formal, subject specific lessons and a focus on data, targets and unrealistic expectations are causing young children to be bored and stressed and this is stifling their learning. Year One in Action reveals the remarkable progress children can make when they are allowed to pursue their own interests, ideas and challenges in a superb enabling environment supported by responsive, skilled and empathic staff.