St Swithun's Church of England Primary Academy
Valuing individuals, aspiring and achieving together in faith
Children have access to a variety of resources within their continuous provision that helps to both develop and consolidate knowledge, skills and understanding when designing and making within their own play.
Construction area: Children have access to a wide variety of construction kits where they can build, join, stack, balance and adapt their own constructions.
Make and do area: children have the opportunity to use a variety of tools and techniques and processes and select and combine using a variety of materials.
Funky fingers: We use tools and techniques used for design and technology such as scissors, punches, threading, sewing, hammering to develop those all important fine motor skills.
Large loose parts construction: Outside the children have access to a wide variety of large scale resources such as, crates, drain pipes, tubes & planks giving them the opportunity to design make, adapt, problem solve, modify and put structures to the test together alongside their peers.
Tasty Tuesday cooking Area: every week the children are given the opportunity to explore and make with food.