Over half term, students had to prepare for the delivery of their eggs, then on the first day back their new egg babies were delivered. The students named their eggs, personalised them, then used what they had prepared to keep the eggs safe.
Over the last two weeks, the students have had to keep the eggs with them all the time unless they can plan suitable eggy day-care and are responsible for keeping a diary detailing the trials and joys of being the egg’s “parent”. Although one or two eggs met sad premature ends, most are thriving and several have been on exciting day trips.
In lessons, they have been studying the Attachment topic which introduces them to research on how babies form real relationships with their parents and other care-givers – looking at studies on how animals form attachments, the active role babies play in their interactions with their parents and theories that tie together all the evidence and predict how different attachments styles impact on later relationships.
Throughout the course, the experiences that students have with their egg babies will inform the classroom discussion about the theories we cover.
