CRL Bristol recently undertook a 3-day Community Project at the local Chandag Infants’ School, where Sandra’s granddaughter is a pupil, to clean and repair an area called ‘Small World’ which had become unsafe for the children to use.
‘Small World’ play areas are very valuable in providing early years children with a sensory, tactile and imaginative play experience which provides an opportunity to explore new materials, build language, practice social skills and gain an understanding of the world by child-led and self-directed play.
The school requested a natural landscape to feature areas of sand, embedded and loose stones, sparkly stones, fossil and fern imprints, feature roads and a couple of pipe tunnels, all with a neutral colour scheme.
Almost all the Bristol staff spent at least one day on the project.
The school were delighted with the finished result: ‘It looks fantastic and the staff are really pleased with the area’. We were invited to attend a special assembly to reveal the repaired play area to the children and we presented them with toy cars and diggers.
‘Small World’ play areas are very valuable in providing early years children with a sensory, tactile and imaginative play experience which provides an opportunity to explore new materials, build language, practice social skills and gain an understanding of the world by child-led and self-directed play.
The school requested a natural landscape to feature areas of sand, embedded and loose stones, sparkly stones, fossil and fern imprints, feature roads and a couple of pipe tunnels, all with a neutral colour scheme.
Almost all the Bristol staff spent at least one day on the project.
The school were delighted with the finished result: ‘It looks fantastic and the staff are really pleased with the area’. We were invited to attend a special assembly to reveal the repaired play area to the children and we presented them with toy cars and diggers.
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4th October 2021
CRL Bristol's Community Project
CRL Bristol's Community Project
Submitted by Sandra May