Understanding the World
22 videos

Listening, talking and observing to understand ...
On discovering badger holes, children make observations about their nocturnal life.

Communication and language, rich language envir...
A 'ride' on a train made from cardboard boxes inspires communication, mathematical and musical activity.

Communication and language through an arts acti...
Children make puppets from natural materials and create stories around their projected images.

Incorporating French into the school day
A class teacher talks about how French is incorporated into the wider curriculum.

Expressive arts and design: The Telescope
A boy is making a telescope, as part of a series of pirate-related activities.

Developing language through an arts activity
Children are decorating sticks making a musical instrument.

Inspiring Communication and Language
A visit to the local museum prompts a whole range of high quality language.

Releasing the butterflies commentary
Practitioner Emma reflects on the clip "Releasing the Butterflies'.

Releasing the butterflies
Both years in EYFS have been nurturing butterflies and today, they are to be released.

Representing ideas through design and technology
Dolf constructs a model responding to a stimulus about fresh fruit.

Observing themed play
The clip follows a complete morning of largely independent free flow activity part way through the theme pirates.

Making relationships
Children are constructing a framework to suspend artefacts collected at Forest School.

Our own museum
Following a visit to the local museum, these nursery children are planning and setting up their own museum in the rol...