Moorgate Nursery School
Wednesday, July 23, 2003
(Photograph) - Three- and four-year-old children at Moorgate Nursery School in Ormskirk, Lancashire, came face to face with a Papua New Guinea stick insect when touring 'bug man' Roger Swailes visited the setting for a lesson on minibeasts. The school's head, Jan Holmes, said, 'Parents have noticed a big change in the way the children view insects since we began our topic on minibeasts. Children have held snails and now stick insects, without feeling any terror.'
(Photograph) - Three- and four-year-old children at Moorgate Nursery School in Ormskirk, Lancashire, came face to face with a Papua New Guinea stick insect when touring 'bug man' Roger Swailes visited the setting for a lesson on minibeasts. The school's head, Jan Holmes, said, 'Parents have noticed a big change in the way the children view insects since we began our topic on minibeasts. Children have held snails and now stick insects, without feeling any terror.'
