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Prepare the children before a theatre outing, as Jean Evans hears.

The children at Cockfield Primary School nursery class were motivated to become performers themselves after a visit to the Blue Sky Theatre performance of 'The Sun Has Got His Hat On' (www.blueskytheatre.com).

'The focus of the performance was musical tales and rhythms of the Caribbean, presenting an excellent opportunity to explore aspects of another culture,' says nursery teacher Judith Cowley.

'However, many of our children are very young and have never taken part in a nursery outing. To help allay the fears or anxieties some children feel when seeing puppets for the first time, we set up a puppet theatre before the visit so that they could explore puppets in familiar surroundings. We explained that the puppets they would see at the theatre would be just like their nursery puppets but operated by adults instead of children.'

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