Level 1/2 OCR J809 UNIT R059
Course Companion (21 PAGES)
For OCR CAMBRIDGE NATIONALS L1/2 CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Unit R059: Understand the development of a child from one to five years
The aim of this resource is to guide students through the core content of R059, providing them with in-depth information that covers all specification points. This resource aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills that will help them succeed in the course
The Course Companion for OCR Cambridge Nationals Level 1/2 Child Development, Unit R059: Understand the Development of a Child from One to Five Years by Faye Watts is an invaluable resource designed to empower students with comprehensive knowledge of child development fundamentals.
Organised systematically according to the OCR specification, this guide explores developmental norms—including physical, intellectual, and social progressions—while emphasising the significance of play as a dynamic vehicle for learning. Each chapter features engaging activities adaptable for various learning platforms, making it practical for classroom and home settings alike.
With clearly outlined objectives for planning and observing play activities, the companion not only equips students with theoretical insights but also practical strategies necessary for effective engagement and support of young children’s unique developmental journeys. Ideal for teachers, educators, parents, and aspiring childcare professionals, this course companion lays a strong foundation for understanding and fostering the growth of children during their most formative years.
For clarity and ease of use, the content of this course companion matches the order of the specification.
The content is structured as follows:
Chapter Subtopics
Topic area 1: Physical, intellectual and social developmental norms from one to five years
1 1.1 The expected development norms from one to five years
Topic area 2: Stages and types of play and how play benefits development
2 2.1 The stages of play
2.2 The types of play
2.3 How play benefits development
Topic area 3: Observe the development of a child aged one to five years
3 3.1 Observation and recording
Topic area 4: Plan and evaluate play activities for a child aged one to five years for a chosen area of development
4 4.1 Plan and evaluate play activities
Childcare; bumper pack- a range of presentations,activities ( Suitable for CACHE, AQA, WJEC)
Promoting a healthy environment for children x 2.
Nutrition and Healthy food for childrenFood Hygiene including treasure hunt.
Indoor/ Outdoor Environments presentation and lesson plan where students Demonstrate current understanding of indoor/ outdoor environments. Familiarise and establish an understanding of indoor/ outdoor environments.
Child development slides with a clip and word cloud activity.
Multi agency presentation.
These resources have been tried and tested to deliver childcare qualifications in the classroom, they could also be used as study/ assignment support.
A revision lesson plan and PowerPoint that can be adapted to suit the subject/ unit need.
Can be used to support aspects of;
*NEW* Level 3 Award and Technical Level 3 Certificate and Technical Level 3 Diploma in Childcare and Education (Early Years Educator)
Tried and tested! Great fun.
Included; cootie catchers, snakes and ladders game, adapted versions to meet needs, blank templates, teachers guide, teachers answers.
These Cootie Catchers are a super fun revision tool. Including a cootie catcher with a range of questions to promote revision and knowledge of the healthy living Unit 9 in Btec level 2 health and social care. Contains pictures. Also another cootie catcher which has extra pictures added, this supports differentiation and provides extra prompts. Select to suit each individual student!
How to play; Once the cootie catcher is made, one player picks an image from healthy eating, water, running or sleeping, which ever they pick from these, the other player spells out, for example; H E A L T H Y E A T I N G, THEN IT WILL LAND SHOWING 4 OF THE 8 IMAGES;
These may be in the form of coloured circles/ shaped depending on the subject.
These are to represent a colour, for example there might be a PINK trainer and a PURPLE bed and Black berries etc.
The player then spells out the colour of the image.
This will land on 4 of the 8 images again, the player picks an image to open at this point.
The question is read out by the other player and an answer is attempted, it can be discussed in pairs if required as it all helps with exam revision.
This game is a super fun revision tool. Including a snakes and ladders game with a range of questions to promote revision and knowledge of the healthy living Unit 9 in Btec level 2 health and social care. Also another game which is the same with extra pictures added, this supports differentiation and provides extra prompts. Finally, a blank template is included to challenge students to research and produce their own game! Select to suit each individual student!
Students roll the dice, play the traditional way, answering questions to move up the ladder, moving down the snake if unsure but can revisit by playing again.
Btec, OCR, GCSE, A level health and social care, healthy living. External assessment/ exam.
All you need is a dice for each game.
Have fun!
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Forest school lesson/ session plans
These plans have been successfully used for a primary school programme by a forest school leader.
There are links to the curriculum- literacy and numeracy, Roman and Celt theme/ topic links, adult/ child led activities, health and safety, resources required, differentiation and more, also a tool safety poster.
Health and Social care, unit 2 care values matching game btec
Teacher tips;
This is a fun, engaging game, simply print out the pages, for each card, the ‘make a match’ writing is on one side and either a picture or writing on the other. Once printed out, fold in half and either glue or laminate.
Print out as many sets as you like to suit your students needs.
This game will develop their knowledge of care values.
An example game could be to
work out who has their matching
card, could also be played in other
ways.
Btec level 2, unit 2, Health and social care..
Campfire fun can be carried out by parents or in settings with the children. Outdoor play, physical skills, problem solving, social play, knowledge and understanding of the world and lots more!
This is a great resources containing a lesson plans and power points to accompany them. Including engaging activities, activities, links to theorists such as Maslow and Vygotsky.
Will support CACHE, Early childhood studies(Foundation degree/ HND/ Btec/ BA Honours.
This game is a super fun revision tool. Including a snakes and ladders game with a range of questions to promote revision and knowledge of the healthy living Unit 9 in Btec level 2 health and social care. Also another game which is the same with extra pictures added, this supports differentiation and provides extra prompts. Finally, a blank template is included to challenge students to research and produce their own game! Select to suit each individual student!
Students roll the dice, play the traditional way, answering questions to move up the ladder, moving down the snake if unsure but can revisit by playing again.
Btec, OCR, GCSE, A level health and social care, healthy living. External assessment/ exam.
All you need is a dice for each game.
Have fun!
Unit.... Nutrition and Healthy food for childrenFood Hygiene
Researched different aspects of food safety and cleaning.
Considered safe ways to store different foods.
Used your knowledge, produced a guide which would assist practitioners when preparing food, cleaning and keeping food safe.
Cut out the questions and answers to stick around the classroom.
Full of engaging learning activities if you teach childcare/ early years. Contains work on theorists, play, investigation, UN Convention, child centred approach, routines and more.
This would be a great learning tool if you are studying towards a degree in childhood studies too!
This is a fun and engaging game to empower learners to explore the Care values for Btec Health and social care, Level 3- unit 2.
The aim of the game is for learners to have the most counters on the board of answers (this is the sheet with a table containing pictures and written statements.
Students do this by picking a card to read out loud in a group of two to three players.
The player to spot the answer, place their counter on it to ‘win’ that square.
There are sheets with questions on in addition to extend their knowledge and research skills to support their assignment and assess knowledge.
Have fun!
(There are counter templates that learners can cut out and colour, 15 each is required, or provide your own)
(To create the cards, print, cut and fold in half, laminate if required, print single sided!
This is a super opportunity to download and use these resources, all in one great bundle!
Included is a lovely campfire activity guide with learning opportunity ideas and a nutritious diet coke chicken curry recipe. A counting activity while den building! forest school plans that ideas can be drawn from to suit your own practice, a pack containing a scavenger hunt, safety triangles and more, nature star quotes that can be laminated and placed in your outdoor area. On top of all that, a Magazine based on utilising technology outdoors!
Have great fun!
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A flexible activity to promote exploration, thinking skills and research skills, great for both the outdoor environment and carrying out further research from books or the internet.
There are pictures of nature in the left column, children can interpret these pictures as they wish. Then in the other column boxes there are prompts to write, draw and find out a fact about something the child does not know yet about what they have found.
Extra sheets are included for children to add their own pictures or write up extra facts and so on.
Supports play, learning, science and nature, key stage one and two, eyfs/ eyfp, outdoor, also a useful teaching tool for child development, e.g. CACHE, BA Honours Early childhood studies and more, students could test it out and evaluate how children learn etc
Welcome to this jam packed 25 page action and adventure outdoor game. Get youngsters outdoors with this computer game inspired activity challenge. You will find information and challenges to print off. There is a map template which you can adapt to suit your environment, you could place the challenges in small containers around your area for the children to follow the map, take part and earn hearts to defeat the monster villains!
This game will promote Holistic development, for example;
Great physical exercise (fine and gross motor skills, fitness, balance...)
Collaboration, working together or solving problems individually.
Maths!; Working out different combinations, adding hearts up and more
Learning about the environment
Gaining an understanding that violence is not needed to defeat the monster villains (covering them with hearts instead)
PSHE
This is ideal for a teacher with a class, outdoor play leader/ forest school leader, parent and so on! Flexible. Even host your own!
Have fun!
Try me" Box. Perfect for outdoour area/ activities/ forest school/ EYFS/EYFP/ Early years activity
A fun selection of activity prompts to set out in your outdoor area/ forest school area or a family activity!
Children can take it in
their own direction!
Simply print out, laminate and place in a box
ready for children to choose from.
(A waterproof plastic box would be ideal)
outdoor play and learning
Excellent range of resources to support STLS teaching and learning in schools, can also cross reference to childcare and health and social care. Included are eye catching power points such as equality and diversity, a values activity, introduction to the role of a teaching assistant, hand out on how to review, session plans and more.
These can be used to support CACHE/ City and Guilds/ and so on.
Whether you teach/ train/ assess or a student looking for study help, these resources are great!
Portable mud kitchen for outdoor play
This resource has been designed to encourage children to be creative, direct their own learning, have fun and spend time using and developing their skills outdoors. The wood cookies are the kitchen cooker hobs!
The aim of this resource is to enable your child to create their own unique mud kitchen that can be transported to a setting of your choice, for example; the local park, your garden, back yard, a woodland, forest, river, lake, beach, anywhere you like!
All you need to do is find an empty plastic box (cracker box)/ biscuit tin and so on as long as they are approximately the size of a shoe box, can be bigger if needed and have a lid to pop the kitchen equipment in.
Your child can have fun choosing which images to use and place onto the box, they can either cut out one of the pre designed kitchens or select images from the other pages. Choosing which images they would like as the hob/ hob buttons etc. Children could search for natural objects such as pine cones to place on and use as their buttons if they wish.
It may be a good idea to laminate before sticking or find a see through material that could be stuck around the finished box to protect from the rain and to enable to be wiped clean.
Fill the mud kitchen box with equipment such as; small measuring pans, spoons, small bowls, dishes and have fun!
This resource could also be use to support the teaching of childcare and development, the students could have a go at creating one to assist them with how a child could learn and develop from this activity- suitable for studying degrees, CACHE, AQA child development.
17 resources included! Childcare Big Bumper Pack!
Power points, games, workbooks, activities for students, activities for children, play and UN, child centred, mud kitchen, Montessori, counting, campfire fun and more!
Suitable to support CACHE, Childhood studies, child development, childrens counting and outdoor activities.
Students could also carry out the children's activities to gain an understanding of the child's perspective and learning opportunities.
Great for staff CPD and training too!
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8 resources included! Big Bumper pack; fun and engaging games, revision and activities for units 2,6 and 9; Btec Health and social care level 2; healthy living, values.
Games such as snakes and ladders, chatter boxes, treasure hunt, booklet, matching game and more!
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