Children at Bright Horizons Crewe Nursery and Preschool became young scientists when they took part in an investigation exploring the behaviours of different materials.
Nursery manager Stephanie Beesley explains the investigation was planned as part of the Growing Scientists initiative, one of four programmes of learning created by Bright Horizons and disseminated to nurseries within the group.
The Growing programmes cover the core National Curriculum areas of maths, science and English and aim to provide children over the age of three with experiences that will stand them in good stead once they start school.
The investigation was carried out with the children from the pre-school room and aimed to introduce the scientific concept of properties. Miss Beesley explains that the idea came from the children themselves after ‘they had enjoyed another volcano experiment we had done with mints in Coca-Cola earlier in the year’.
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