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Everybody got in on the act when a nursery school devised an imaginative project, described here by head Sue Chambers At Chertsey Nursery School, we decided to organise a special Design and Technology Fun Week as part of the whole-school project that we have each term. The aim of the week was to:

At Chertsey Nursery School, we decided to organise a special Design and Technology Fun Week as part of the whole-school project that we have each term. The aim of the week was to:

* encourage more innovative work in design and technology

* involve parents, governors and members of the local community more in the children's learning, and

* involve Year 6 pupils from the local primary school, so that our children could benefit from working alongside older children.

Above all, we wanted to create a magical world for everyone to enjoy.

Our school is an LEA nursery school in Surrey, with a roll of 77 children in three classes, one of which is a special needs unit.

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