Nursery World - EYFS Activities: We’ve explored… building

The children at one setting got stuck in planning and then building an outdoor play house, hears Annette Rawstrone

Children at Kay Rowe Nursery School in Forest Gate, east London have spent five months designing, planning and building a wooden house in their outdoor area.

Trainee teacher Rabia Rahman suggested embarking on a long-term woodwork project in order to encourage a child, who is selectively mute and has a hearing impairment, to become more involved in activities and with his peers. She knew that he was physically able and interested in construction and hoped he would be motivated by the project. What she didn’t anticipate was that the nursery children – inspired by reading the Three Little Pigs and watching a neighbouring house extension – would decide on such a large-scale endeavour.

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