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EYFS Project Construction - Building Wonderwall

Children in London learned how to make bricks and much more while creating a community wall, writes Rosie Potter

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Greenfields Nursery School and Children’s Centre in Southall is at the heart of a vast regeneration project, involving the large-scale building of community housing. Children pass these sites daily on their way to and from the nursery and are fascinated by the construction. So, this year they began thinking about walls and the roles they play in our society.

As a result of this interest, the children, working with artists from Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL, explored images of historic walls, including the Walls of Troy, the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall, as well as the techniques of dry-stone walling, cave painting, contemporary street art and graffiti.

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