Overview of planning

Welcome to the guidance on planning.

For an effective play-based approach, you should support your children's learning with a range of well planned opportunities for child-initiated and guided play, and some more focused adult-led activities.

Thoughtful planning before teaching and learning will also enable you to focus more on in-the-moment decisions about how to develop the learning of individual children.

This section provides general guidance on effective planning, and step-by-step support for your own planning. It includes these sections: