Since its launch on International Mud Day in June last year, Beach School has provided the children from Woodland House Nursery, Bristol, with a huge list of memorable learning experiences, such as finding a message in a bottle - a real one, from a group of students reflecting on their first year at university. Once back at the setting, the children replied to the senders and have since kept up a correspondence with letter's authors.
The Beach School won the Enabling Environments category at this year's Nursery World Awards and is part of the transformation of what was an underachieving nursery when it changed ownership in 2009. Fittingly, its tagline is 'Our memories of the beach will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone!'
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