CONCRETE for the nursery
26 June








We went to site with Tom to see the first concrete being poured for the building. It was the floor of the nursery. Did you know you can pour concrete? It's just like porridge!

It's bought to site in a lorry that has a big drum that goes round and round all the time to keep it mixed and stop it going hard on it's journey. You can just see the concrete lorry on the right hand side of the picture.

To get the concrete to where it needs to go you could move it all in wheel barrows and make lots of journeys but that would take ages and the school would never get finished in time. So, to make it quicker the builders use a pump. The concrete lorry puts its concrete into the pump (which is also on another lorry) and the pump has a long nozzle like a elephants trunk. Can you see the long yellow arm reaching across the picture? This puts the conctrete just where it is needed.

Pouring the concrete is called 'casting' and the floor is called a 'slab' so this was 'casting the nursery slab'. Now work can carry on to build the rest of the nursery.