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Producing items from a bag to stimulate children's imaginative thinking and storytelling inspired staff at St James' Pre-school in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, to set up a wall display. Here they tell how Planned learning intentions

Planned learning intentions

To record and celebrate children's imaginative ideas To revisit and talk further about an experience To share information about an activity and the curriculum with parents Resources

Digital camera, coloured paper to back the board, black paper to mount photographs, card, pens, labels (or word processing programme on the computer), paper arrows

Step by step

* Take photographs of the bag and its contents.

* Take photographs throughout the activity and annotate these to explain every stage of the story making process. Include children's ideas and scribe their comments.

* Print and mount the photographs and back the display board.

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