A deep interest in vehicles, shared by many children at Tree House Children's Centre in East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, has led to practitioners arranging for a range of transport to drive over to the rural setting.
‘Children often hear tractors pass the nursery and enjoy watching over the fence as the neighbouring farmer works on his tractor, but getting up close and hands-on with these big vehicles enables them to really come alive to the children,’ says nursery manager Andrea Jackson. ‘There is such awe and wonder from something that we may consider very simple, and many of our children aspire to be farmers or digger drivers.’
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