Parents, as well as their children, can learn through play, says Carol Wassell, owner-manager of Possums Nursery Schools in Bracknell, Berkshire
With the introduction of the Foundation Stage in September last year and its emphasis on partnership with parents, we wanted to make our children's parents more aware of the early learning goals.
We held a parents' evening to explain the six areas of learning, but we felt they needed hands-on experience of the kind of activities that their children do at nursery to enable them to understand more fully how children learn and work towards the early learning goals in practice.
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