The Beach School won our Enabling Environments Award this year from a really strong shortlist, and is a brilliant example of using your surroundings to maximum effect.
There's no golden strand or idyllic cove, but the Severn Beach that staff and children visit has a whole range of stimulating resources and opportunities with its mud and stones, shingle and tidal changes.
Making fires, collecting driftwood, constructing dens, finding messages in bottles and learning about crabs and squid are just some of the activities that arise. It really makes you want to be there with the staff and children.
As concerns grow over a drive to increased formalisation and moving two-year-olds into schools, we need to highlight exciting early years practice such as the Beach School and make sure it doesn't get washed away like the children's footprints in the sand!
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