Play Leadership Warnborough College

Overview

This Play Leadership course from Warnborough College will able you to work as either a volunteer or in employment as a professional in this challenging and rewarding field. You will need to have lots of energy and imagination! You will need to love children and enjoy their care-free, often humorous personalities.

This course will develop valuable skills in anyone working, or wishing to work with children. Our staff have experience training play leaders for over 35 years and have devised this truely fantastic course which will challenge you and arm you with the skills you need to succeed in this vitally important industry.  Children deserve the best!

Course Aims:

• Explain the purpose of play in the cognitive, physical and social development of a child.

• Determine the skills required to carry out a play leadership role in different situations

• 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.

• Explain options for physical play activities, including games and sports, in a supervised play program.

• 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.

Who should take this course?

Youth leaders in community organisations or involved in community work

Coaches, trainers, and others involved in child health and fitness

Child carers, or people looking to transition into the early childhood industry

At the end of this course you will:

• Understand how to plan, establish and manage a supervised adventure

• Be able to explain the purpose of play in the cognitive, physical and social development of a child.

• Understand how to effectively use play resources and structures in your interactions with children