Children and staff are now returning to nursery and school with the memories of their summer holidays. For as long as I can remember - as a child, a parent and a teacher - when the summer term ended, the holidays stretched out before me as if they would go on forever.
I can remember when for a child the holidays consisted of weeks with little organisation. My friends and I played games like hide and seek, hopscotch and jacks, built dens with a clotheshorse and blanket, cooked mud pies, created miniature gardens and perfume with rose petals, walked on precarious stilts made from golden syrup tins, and played in the long grass of the 'side patch'. We played outdoors throughout the summer. I am sure that these experiences influenced my life and my attitude to children and their learning.
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