Inspired by some of the children’s budding interest in cars, staff at Brougham Street Nursery School in Skipton, North Yorkshire, invited a local driving instructor to visit their setting and bring in his dual-control car for the afternoon.
‘The children like looking at cars when we go on walks, talking about their colour and saying if they are like mummy or daddy’s car,’ says class teacher Beccy Robinson. ‘We recently went on a whole-class walk and one child was naming every model of car as he passed by them. He knew the make of every car and van, even if it didn’t have a badge.’
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