Blow the house down!

Our Reception pupils have been enjoying a variety of traditional tales as part of their Once Upon a Time topic. To fully immerse themselves in the story of The Three Little Pigs, they were treated to a bricklaying demonstration by one of the parents.

Mr Holcombe kindly gave his time to show the children how to successfully bond bricks so that the wolf wouldn’t be able to blow the house down. They also explored what happened when they huffed and puffed to try to blow down straw, sticks and finally a brick wall!

After the demonstration, the children couldn’t wait to get to work putting what they had learnt into practice by building their own walls complete with columns and even ‘sand cement’. What a lesson!