Each Friday during term we hold professional development seminars for faculty and staff at NCI. These events focus on learning, teaching and research and we always have interesting and engaging topics. Today, our colleague Catriona Flood from the Early Learning Initiative at NCI presented a seminar on the pedagogy of messy play. During the summer a number of messy play sessions were organised by the ELC and children and parents from our hinterland attended.  The kids got stuck in so to speak and often when we looked out our windows into the enclosed garden at the college we were treated to the sight of a multitude of little ones splashing,…