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Trips away from the nursery can provide a wealth of opportunities for learning, both on the day and back in the setting. Julian Grenier has some ideas to get you started Many of my most pleasurable memories of working with young children arose from the visits we did together. I will never forget the time a child sneaked on to the surface of the moon and made a run for the astronauts at the Science Museum. And I will always remember the intense enjoyment of a child with special needs leaping into the sea and screaming with the thrill of cold water splashing all over and around him. There is something delightful and mind-expanding about taking children beyond the four walls of their settings and encountering something new together.

Many of my most pleasurable memories of working with young children arose from the visits we did together. I will never forget the time a child sneaked on to the surface of the moon and made a run for the astronauts at the Science Museum. And I will always remember the intense enjoyment of a child with special needs leaping into the sea and screaming with the thrill of cold water splashing all over and around him. There is something delightful and mind-expanding about taking children beyond the four walls of their settings and encountering something new together.

When children come back from trips, they play out their experiences. They draw things about them, build things about them and make many other representations of what they saw and what they did.

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