VISITS
At Rachel Keeling, like many settings, funding cuts have meant we have had to tighten our belt. One of the valued provisions we had to review was visits. Whole-day trips out with groups of children cost the school a lot of money; however, we really valued the impact.
We started to visit local shops and the market just a stone’s throw from our school each week to buy the shopping. This became known as ‘Shoppers of the week’. Each week, two children are chosen. They make their way around the nursery asking the team whether they need any shopping. Next they write their lists: sometimes drawing the items, or children might write some recognisable letters or marks to represent the sounds. Then they collect their coats, lists, purses and ‘shopper-backpacks’.
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