Case study: Zoe

Zoe is a three-year-old attending Cottingley Primary School nursery for a daily three-hour session. In the setting she shows a keen interest in water play and also spends much time imitating adults in 'home' play. Her mother says that these enthusiasms are mirrored at home and that some of Zoe's favourite activities are helping to wash up the pots after a meal, bathing her dolls, making drinks and sandwiches for tea. At nursery, having noted from observations Zoe's fascination with 'wet and dry', the team decided to provide for further scientific investigation of 'wet and dry' through home play activities....