As a parent often the bane of my life was my child coming home from nursery or school with a letter saying this month’s topic would be …….. It didn’t matter what the topic actually was it always evoked the same response…. ARGHH!!!!! It means I have to get involved; they’re going to want stuff from me! From making costumes to finding interesting things for show and tell, to stories, someone somewhere in the great educational system is now going to want me to provide my child with input!! So why do nurseries and schools do topics? Why give us, as busy, already stressed and tired parents something else to do? Well read on and I’ll tell you. Topics are fantastic! As a nursery nurse, the amount of learning that can be gained through a simple topic such as ‘Dinosaurs’ is amazing. The whole idea is to get the children engrossed in a topic and then let the play around said topic encourage development and growth in all areas of learning. If we stick with dinosaurs as our topic of example, the scope for learning is as huge as these creatures themselves. There are stories to be told and books to be read, encouraging listening skills, patience and concentration, understanding of the written and spoken word. Appreciation of books, learning how to handle and care for books, understanding about the sequence of books how they have a beginning, middle and an end. Discovering new or make believe worlds, characters and plots through a well told tale is a wonderful experience that has been passed down since the dawn of...
The summer holidays are here! The children have lots of free time and seemingly endless energy. No amount of late nights seems to encourage them to sleep in and we all know that too much TV or electronic use is not great no matter how quiet it keeps the little darlings. One of the best ways to stop them spending this new found energy and school term enforced time on doing serious emotional or bodily damage to their siblings or to your bank balance is to entertain them with a day trip! But in order to preserve said bank balance, and your sanity, these trips need to be cheap or better still free and interesting and engaging enough for your children that they’re not begging to be returned home to their electronic gadgets within 5 minutes of arriving or worse still resume their sibling rivalry but in public!! So where is there within short travel distance in East Yorkshire to exhaust your children but not your finances? Burnby Hall Gardens http://www.burnbyhallgardens.com/ YO42 2QF Free parking or easily accessed on bus route. Free entry for children under the age of 5 years old, Children 5 years -15 years £3.10. Adults £5.00 So it’s cheap but what is there to do there? In short… Lots! It’s got amazing lakes and gardens perfect for strolling round looking for hidden treasure/mini beasts/siblings in the many nooks and crannies created by the landscaping. The lakes are teaming with almost tame fish (certainly tamer than some of the children I’ve taken there over the years) and fish food can be purchased for a small fee...
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