A child’s enthusiasm after sailing on a boat with his family led to staff at Pitter Patter Day Nursery in New Brighton, Wallasey organising a fun day out, including riding on a ferry across the Mersey.
‘The child returned to pre-school after the weekend and was telling their friends about their boat trip and we realised that not a lot of the children had actually been on a boat or a ferry,’ says nursery manager Katie Boston. ‘This child had really good knowledge of what it was like to be on a boat, while others had only seen boats when they had been on the beach. So we decided to put a plan in place to increase the pre-school children’s cultural capital.’
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