A chocolate-making factory, a window-cleaning company and a courier service are just some of the role-play scenarios that have been set up at Arbourthorne Community Primary School following a visit to the child-sized city KidZania in west London.
‘Children in the Reception class were so taken by the medical courier service – where they had to follow instructions to deliver life-saving blood to the hospital on a trolley within a set time – that we decided to incorporate the idea of a courier service into our daily provision,’ explains head teacher Vanessa Langley, who also sits on the KidZania think tank.
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