Handing real hammers and real nails to under-fives? It might sound like a recipe for disaster, but for Broughton Pre-School it’s part of a recipe for Ofsted success. The Lancashire pre-school landed full marks when Ofsted visited last October and its belief in using real-life objects played an important role in that success.
"We do this with lots of resources," says Elizabeth Hanson, deputy lead early years educator at Broughton. "We have real hammers and real nails and, obviously, it’s supervised and risk-assessed but they are the real tools that children see adults use and they take to it. It’s more sensory and engaging for the children."
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