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Nursery Topics - Communications offers children opportunities to learn about and explore why and how people communicate in the 'real world'. They can 'write' postcards, send letters, telephone friends, receive e-mails, become TV reporters.... and, in so doing, gain experience of a wide range of communications systems. Such an exploration can help fulfil some of the main aims of the Foundation Stage curriculum:

Such an exploration can help fulfil some of the main aims of the Foundation Stage curriculum:

* It can provide children with meaningful situations in which to develop their language and literacy skills and so foster a confident and enthusiastic approach to verbal and written language.

* It helps develop their interpersonal skills and fosters a desire to share and record what they know, think and feel.

* It helps children to make sense of the world around them.

* It builds their confidence and develops a positive disposition to learning, so preparing them to cope with future (technological) change.

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