On the record

Time goes by so fast. You can't do much about it, but you can try tracking it with a range of creative techniques.

TIME CAPSULES

These are a fantastic way of getting children to work together, thinking and talking about the era of time they are living in.

Essentially, children collect together a range of different objects that signify our current time. These are put into a 'capsule' which is sealed and carefully stored with instructions that it should not be opened until a certain year in the future.

Some people like to hide capsules to be randomly found by strangers at some unknown point in time. Sometimes they are hidden in elaborate places - children at my club made a capsule that was buried under the foundations of the extension to our nursery premises which we were handily building as we marked the Millennium! However, if we had approached our local county council, no doubt there would have been plenty of public building works being carried out. We could have asked for our capsule could be buried on our behalf.