Nursery World - EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… crossing mud

The problem of having to cross an area of mud led to children making and using ladders and ropes. By Annette Rawstrone

I’m so fed up of walking through mud every day and having to clean my boots. What do you think we should do?’ declared senior teacher and Forest School leader Jo Skone during an exceptionally wet period earlier this year. The problem that she posed for the children at Randolph Beresford Nursery School in White City, west London led to them embarking on a series of investigations over many weeks, as they developed and tested different theories of how to get across the mud in their Forest School area.

These unplanned explorations are at the heart of the nursery’s Forest School ethos as staff focus on the process of learning rather than the content – the ‘how’ instead of the ‘what’.

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