How many can play?

Staff at Cockfield Primary School nursery class have found several ways to encourage children to share its spaces and resources, says Jayne Brown At the start of the school year, our youngest children often have difficulty understanding that there are limitations on the number who can play in any area at the same time. We explain to them about the lack of space and the need to share resources, but they respond more readily if something visual is used to clarify this message. We have always created signs for play areas to indicate the name of the area and the...