Nursery World - We’ve explored… elephants

Children at one setting have worked on individual and collaborative elephant projects. By Annette Rawstrone

I like elephants because they can squirt water,’ says Mimi, while Huxley informs his classmates that ‘I’ve touched an elephant in Australia. I’ve touched half of its leg. It felt a bit smooth on the front.’

Reception children at Reggio Emilia-inspired Manor Wood Primary School in Leeds benefit from an atelier and work in small groups of around 15 to explore a particular project throughout the school year. Last year, one group were fascinated by the elephant models in the setting’s discovery room and set about to find out more. The project took many twists through sculpting, activism and animation as the children told their elephant stories.

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