1.4 fc

1. Unit 1.4 Promote children’s
emotional well-being

2. Starter Activity
• Time: 15 mins
• Reflect on the experience you had in your
placement one
• What have you found out about the key
person’s roles and responsibilities?

3. Learning outcomes
• Identify the role of the key person
• Describe theoretical perspectives on the role of
the key person in relation to social development
• Analyse the role of the key person in promoting
emotional well-being
• Reflect on the role of the key person

4. 2.1. Analyse the role of the Key person in
promoting emotional well-being.
In pairs compare what you have learnt from your
placement from the starter activity
Note down why a key person is good for
Child
Parent
Setting - remember to include safeguarding and
welfare requirements.

5. LO2. Understand the requirements for promoting emotional
well-being in relation to current frameworks [AC 2.1]
• Theorists on social development
• Albert Bandura developed the social learning theory, which suggested
that children learn their behaviours from adults around them.
• He believed that social behaviour was learned through observation and
imitation, and designed the ‘Bobo doll’ experiment to try and prove his
theories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zerCK0lRjp8
• Lev Vygotsky believed that children learn through social interaction and
developed the theory of the ‘zone of proximal development’.
• Erik Erikson believed that people continually develop socially from birth
throughout their life. He identified 12 stages in the development of
personality. The role of the adult is vital in ensuring that the child gains
confidence in order to go through each stage.
• Theoretical perspectives on emotional well-being

6. LO2. Understand the requirements for promoting emotional
well-being in relation to current frameworks [AC 2.1]
• The revised EYFS recognises the importance
of the key person when it states that ‘Each
child must be assigned a key person’
(Statutory Framework for the Early Years
Foundation Stage DfE 2012).
• Early Years Matters acknowledges the role of
the key person and the importance of
attachment.
• The role of the key person in current frameworks

7. LO2. Understand the requirements for promoting emotional
well-being in relation to current frameworks 2.1
• Time: 20 mins
• Research the three theorists on the previous slide –
Bandura Group 1, Vygotsky Group 2 and Erikson Group 3.
• Consider:
• The social learning theory
• The zone of proximal development
• The stages of development.
• What impact do their theories have on the role of the key
person?
• Give practical examples.
• Feedback using padlet using your views

8. LO2. Understand the requirements for promoting emotional
well-being in relation to current frameworks 2.1
• Time: 15 mins
• Consider your research on the case of Genie from
the last lesson.
• Discuss the conditions that she lived in and the
implications for her social development.
• How does this impact on her well-being?
• Reference her development to Bandura’s,
Vygotsky’s and Erikson’s theories.
• If she had had a key person might it have made a
difference?

9. LO2. Understand the requirements for promoting emotional
well-being in relation to current frameworks [AC 2.1]
• The theories of Bandura, Vygotsky and Erikson all
recognise the importance of a significant other.
• Bandura focuses on the adult as a role model, Vygotsky
identifies the more knowledgeable other (MKO) and
Erikson recognises that the adult is important in
providing confidence for the child to move through the
stages.
• The importance of the adult role has implications for
the practitioner in that they have to ensure that they
always provide a good role model.
• The importance of being a good role model

10. LO2. Understand the requirements for promoting emotional
well-being in relation to current frameworks 2.1
• Time: 15 mins
• What makes a good role model?
• Discuss the role of the key person
– list all the roles and
responsibilities.
• Design a poster to illustrate the
ideal key person.
• Annotate your illustration.

11. LO2. Understand the requirements for promoting emotional
well-being in relation to current frameworks [AC 2.1]
• Time: 15 mins
• Research the publicised case of Daniel Bartlam, a teenager
who murdered his mother.
• What can we learn about the importance of having a role
model from this case study?
• What could be the implications for practitioners?
• How does this case link with Bandura’s theory of social
learning?
• http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/apr/02/teenager-
daniel-bartlam-jailed-murder
• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124034/Daniel-
Bartlam-Coronation-Street-killer-fascinated-horror-DVDs-
violent-game-age-easy-hold-says-victims-partner.html

12. LO2. Understand the requirements for promoting emotional
well-being in relation to current frameworks [AC 2.1]
• Time: 15 mins
• Choose one of the three theorists, Bandura,
Vygotsky or Erikson.
• Plan an activity for a group of children based on
their theory. It could be an indoor or an outdoor
activity, creative, active, learning a new skill etc.
• Write a lesson plan that explains how the
children are learning and how it relates to the
theorist that you have chosen.
• Use the activity planning sheet provided.

13. LO2. Understand the requirements for promoting emotional
well-being in relation to current frameworks [AC 2.1]
• Time: 15 mins
• You have been working in your setting for three years and
you know all the children and the families very well.
However, you are about to move to a new job in a setting in
the same town.
• In your role as a key person, how do you prepare the
children for your departure?
• One little girl from your old setting sees you in town, taking
some of your new children to the local shops to buy
ingredients for a cooking activity. She is upset to see you
with other children.
• How do you console her and explain this to her?

14. Summary: plenary activities
1. What are the dangers of the key person becoming more important to
the child than their own parent/carer?
2. What could the practitioner do to avoid this?
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