Nursery and Primary School Furniture – Practical, Educational and Fun
Specialist school furniture can aid the development of young minds with a range of classroom equipment and fittings that provide a unique learning platform for children and help you fulfil educational requirements.
In a demanding school environment it can be difficult to find the time to focus on developing children’s creativity. With the focus on numeracy and literacy, there is often little room for creative thought, play or interaction. More and more experienced teachers are realising the benefits of investing in school furniture that allows children to learn, play and be creative all at the same time. Specialist manufacturers of school furniture produce items that are both practical and educational to help create a fun learning environment. This is important for children as their young minds are constantly learning so should be exposed to as many experiences as possible using different educational resources.
Encouraging Creativity: Learning through Play
Most experienced teachers know the importance of creative play and learning. Colourful and enticing school furniture can create a stimulating environment in which to encourage your pupils to take part. Many teachers find it significantly easier to coordinate a lesson and fulfil their learning objectives when they utilise role play equipment or soft seating that can create a learning area to help develop children’s social skills and speaking and listening skills. Story time cushions and modular seating areas can be beneficial as their portability allows you to take the learning environment anywhere. If you are focusing on science or nature; outdoor seating can give children a more hands on approach to learning when you take the lesson outside. http://www.edusentials.co.uk/furniture/soft-seating/story-time-mats/mobile-mat-trolley-with-30-mats/prod_214.html
Educational School Furniture: Visual Teaching Aids
Holding the attention of younger audiences is one of the biggest challenges educators face in the classroom but with a plethora of visual teaching aids in the form of school furniture; it has never been easier to educate and inform in a colourful way. Our range of visually appealing rugs provides stimuli for a multitude of educational topics as well as providing a very practical piece of classroom furniture. Whether you are focusing on literacy, maths, languages or science; there are educational mats and interactive aids to help with the introduction of new topics on every subject;
• Multicultural world rug – http://www.edusentials.co.uk/furniture/mats-carpets/multi-cultural-world-rug/prod_726.html
A bright rug showing children of all different races joining hands to encourage acceptance.
• Recycling rug – http://www.edusentials.co.uk/furniture/mats-carpets/recycling-carpet-interactive-pocketed-cube-set/prod_727.html
A mat to teach the value of recycling, complete with game cube to spark children’s interest.
• Back to nature life cycles rug – http://www.edusentials.co.uk/furniture/mats-carpets/back-to-nature-life-cycles-carpet/prod_728.html
This rug depicts the life cycles of caterpillar to butterfly, egg to chicken, tadpole to frog and seed to tree and provides a clear visual for children to understand.
Even ‘boring’ school furniture items like mobile pin boards can play an important part and encourage children to produce work worthy of display in their school classrooms. http://www.edusentials.co.uk/presentation/display-partitioning/mobile-pinboards-multiple-offer-x-3/prod_1079.html
Edusentials is home to a fantastic range of school furniture and play equipment for primary schools and nurseries. They are an online retailer of educational equipment and aids and can offer great savings as well as great products. To find out more, browse their range today.