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Enabling Environments: Collections - Well away

Pack-away nurseries need be creative to make their settings work.
Nicole Weinstein asks three how they manage their storage solutions.

Storage is a huge issue for nurseries, but when it comes to settings that have to pack away their resources each day there is an even greater need to choose clever, practical storage solutions that are easy to move around.

Crates, baskets, trolleys and trugs allow resources to be stored and then displayed for children to access independently. Resources that fold down, pack away, or stack inside each other, have wheels or hook on easily to rails and fences are also ideal.

Little Rascals Playschool St Chads Bilston, Wolverhampton

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Little Rascals, a chain of three settings in the West Midlands, opened its first pack-away nursery in April this year.

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