Nursery World - EYFS Activities – We’ve explored… Covid wards

One setting created a coronavirus hospital ward so the children could make sense of the pandemic. Annette Rawstrone reports

The staff acted as the patients and the children as doctors and nurses

When the children of key workers wanted to create a hospital ward to treat patients with coronavirus, the idea was embraced by staff at Poppies Daycare in Perham Down, Wiltshire.

The nursery group has kept one of its three nurseries open to care for 19 children of key workers, many of whom work for the NHS and military. ‘We felt that it was vital our children could role-play this critical time in their lives to support them in understanding their own emotions, especially as one frontline worker reported that her child was worried about his mum “working with all the poorly people”,’ says managing director Elaine Harrison.

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