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The home corner is an essential area for good reason – it’s where children feel comfortable and is a familiar environment where they can re-enact what is going on in their homes and start to make sense of their world. Practitioners at Cullompton Pre-school in Devon saw this taken to a different level when children decided to move house.
‘We had been observing the children’s use of the home corner and decided to set it up in a different part of the pre-school because the children accessing the area and the way they were playing in it had become very fixed,’ explains pre-school leader and early years teacher Amelia Joyner.
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