Brucehill Education and Childcare Centre - video transcript
Video transcript - overview of the project
There are now 26 boxes in our science project and there are 14 different subjects, different topics within the science project. We have, for example, the minibeasts and we have got things to do with electricity, things to do with living and growing.
One of the difficulties just now is that the children love it, the parents love taking the boxes home, but we do have 160 children to access and when the parents have taken the box home with the children, the children next week think 'Well, when is it my turn again?', and you are talking probably about 9, 10, 11 weeks on before they can access another box. This is something that we are going to have to look at, but the enthusiasm of the children and the enthusiasm of the parents is absolutely phenomenal.
But one of the most important things is the parents are involved in their children's learning. They're taking this home. This sort of whole thing about science being a scary word is not any more. It's amazing the amount of things that parents have said in evaluation sheets about science, what they thought science was and what science is, is really things that the children are involved in every day like colour, like cooking, like the weather.
Science is an area the staff didn't feel brilliant about, they didn't feel confident about, and now they are up and running, questions asked, experimenting and doing lots of things within the nursery.
One of the things that we did discuss all in: what happens if the camera goes missing? What happens if the magnets go missing? At the end of the day that's life and that doesn't matter. Things can get broken, you know a book can get ripped or whatever, but this is what the project is about. It's about getting the stuff out in the home, and no child or no family will be excluded from getting another box.
We will continue with this project, we will continue to build on it, we will continue to change as we go along. We will react and respond to the evaluations that the parents bring in.