The children in the Orchard Bubble have been having a great time in the nursery with our obstacle course equipment. We have been learning to work together as a team and use everyone’s ideas to create the courses. We have also been learning about how to risk assess for ourselves.
The children decided to add to the obstacle course and make one where they have to use their gross motor skills to hop and jump.
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Then the children wanted to use the big blocks inside to create a big obstacle course together.
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When we create and use obstacle courses we are not just developing our gross motor skills but also learning to share, take turns and cooperate with each other.