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Worthing Beach in West Sussex is a stone’s throw from Davison Day Nursery, where eight children aged between three and five years set off each week for a beach school session.
‘The beauty of being on the beach is that it’s a forever-changing environment that differs each day, depending on whether the tide is in or out or if the weather is hot or cold,’ explains Heather Apsey, SENCo and Level 3 qualified beach school practitioner.
‘If it’s been particularly windy, the children enjoy searching for stimulating natural resources deposited on the beach, like seaweed and drift wood. They also like to build dams with the pebbles and streams created by the outgoing tide. It’s the ideal environment to implement in-the-moment planning, which fits into our nursery ethos.’
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