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Comenius Project Heypos Newsletter September/ October 2012 Great News!- A successful first visit

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22 visitors enjoyed visiting Camborne Nursery School and Truro nursery School. They shared presentations about their own schools and national school system as well as seeing the two nursery schools in action. The visitors met staff and governors as well as Cornwall Council representatives and local Authority Early Years consultants. They also visited a local infant school. There were plenty of opportunities for all the practitioners participating to meet and learn about Nursery Education across the partnership countries.

Observing the nurseries in action

Learning about Outdoor environments

Heypos Leaders planning next steps

Observing Science activities around healthy eating.

The visitors stayed in the historic town of St Ives and enjoyed visits to The Minnack theatre, St Michaels Mount and the Eden project. The Eden Project proved to be inspirational to all of the visitors providing a theme for our partnership to work around

To inspire and engage children with the natural world, science and sustainability.
These words led the partners to agree on our first partnership work. For all schools to join in a walk to school month. October 2012 will provide an opportunity for all partners to engage the children in activities focussed on some of the following Traffic pollution Exercise Health These activities will be some of the first to be shared on our learning platform heypos.blogspot.com/