Ideas, information and support for best practice in outdoor provision in the Early Years Foundation Stage
EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Outdoor provision for under-threes
Babies, toddlers and two-year-olds and the outdoors are a natural combination, with endless benefits for learning and development. Jan White explains where to find them.
Enabling Environments: Forest school diary - spring is here
Children enjoyed the first signs of spring on their latest trip to...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Get the bug!
There's no end to the learning as well as the fun that...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Come out to play
Boys were encouraged to discover new ways to play, learn and practise...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Step into the story
Viv Hampshire explains how she organised a story walk to bring the...
Enabling Environments: Physical Development - It's all go
Children's favourite activities are encouraged by Christina Saville, Maryanne Neil, Linsey Fulton...
Enabling Environments: Forest Schools: Part 5 - On fire
Light the sparks of learning and independence in Forest School activities using...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Chalk it up
It's an eye-opening experience to observe what children (and adults) really go...
Enabling Environments: Sustainability - By the shore
School and nursery children took the principles of Forest School to the...
A Unique Child: Outdoors - Practice in Pictures - In the mix
The benefits for children of playing in a mixed age group are...
A Unique Child: Practice in Pictures - On the beach
New sights and new textures are made familiar for a baby with...
Positive Relationships: Let's talk about ... Outdoor clothing
Is clothing for outdoors the responsibility of parents or the nursery? Practitioners...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Hit the roof
Having involved the children in its design, a London nursery is now...
Enabling Environments: Outdoor resources - Tunnel vision
Plants and play go together naturally thanks to an innovative garden design...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Making sense
Developing a neglected area into a garden enabling free-flow access to the...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Wild at heart
The endless potential for learning through play that the natural environment offers...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Why are the leaves yellow?
What do children really get out of playing outdoors? An action research...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Feet first
Follow young children on the trail of new sensory experiences and inspiring...
EYFS Best practice: All about ... Forest schools
Explore the forest school movement in England with a study of local...
A Unique Child: Outdoors - Practice in pictures - Play mates
A simple interaction shows symbolic play and social interaction between toddlers, says...
EYFS Training, Part 5: Outdoor learning
Early years practitioners will benefit from training in using the outdoors, whether...
Nursery Equipment: Outdoors - All out
Exploring the outdoors develops young children's sense of space and movement. Nicole...
Nursery Equipment: Outdoors - Out and about
Toddlers love going on everyday little trips. Nicole Weinstein looks at the...
Enabling Environments: Gardening - Dig into the net
What you'll find at the Royal Horticultural Society website
Enabling Environments: Forest Schools: Part 4 - Down to the woods
Observation, assessment and planning are the foundation of any forest school programme,...
Enabling Environments - Forest Schools: Part 3 - Aiming high
Planning your Forest Schools programme for the short and long term requires...
Enabling Environments: Forest Schools: Part 2 - Lead on
Being a Forest Schools practitioner requires a constant awareness of the opportunities...
Enabling Environments: Forest Schools, Part 1: Location, location
In the first of a new series on running a Forest School...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - In the lead
For children to get the most out of their time outdoors, practitioners...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - In their element
Girls consistently achieve better than the boys, but research suggests that the...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Outside in
One school is reaping the benefits of bringing the children's outdoor learning...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Be bold!
The aims and principles that went into developing an innovative children's centre...
Enabling environments outdoors: It's magic
The evolution of a magical garden shared with the community is described...
Enabling Environments Outdoors: On the road
A fresh source for learning is discovered every week by one early...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Rise to the challenge
The Outdoor Challenge will get you to think hard about your setting's...
Enabling Environments Outdoors: Granting wishes
Outdoor provision for the early years is set to grow and flourish...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Wild at heart
The endless potential for learning through play that the natural environment offers...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Open minds
A grant-funded outdoor space was made to order according to the nursery...
Enabling Environments - Outdoors - Rising to the Challenge
See what the winners of Nursery World's Outdoor Challenge 2010, run in...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Park rangers
'Nurture through nature' is the ethos behind an outdoor kindergarten in Glasgow,...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Without walls
Early years settings' work with families can take a new dimension when...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - A problem shared
Sharing your outdoor space, or even just the corridors that lead to...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Adventures in Italy
Nursery school children in Verona, Italy, take part in challenging outdoor trips...
Enabling environments outdoor learning: In charge
We found that less was more when we cleared our school's outdoor...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Only natural
The rewards of close encounters with nature for all children are extolled...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Hit the roof
Having involved the children in its design, a London nursery is now...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Shore thing
Children can go to the beach every day at a nursery with...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Feet first
Follow young children on the trail of new sensory experiences and inspiring...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Wrap up warm
Are you a mud-lover, a mug-hugger or somewhere in between? Annie Davy...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - All decked out
Staff at Little Acorns Nursery in Urmston, Manchester, have transformed the outdoor...
Enabling environments outdoors: Uh-uh! Mud!
An early years setting's garden designed along the lines of a popular...
Enabling Environments: music and language outdoors
Practitioners put their ears to the ground when thinking how to promote...
Enabling Environments: Beside the seaside
Childminders have bought and equipped a beach chalet for a unique resource...
Enabling Environments: Sensory Gardens
Stimulate the senses, stretch children's skills and extend provision for special needs...
Enabling Environments: Tried and Tested - Outward bound
Outdoor play offers children the opportunity to move feely and to work...
Nursery Equipment: Outdoors - All out
Exploring the outdoors develops young children's sense of space and movement. Nicole...
Nursery Equipment: Outdoors - Out and about
Toddlers love going on everyday little trips. Nicole Weinstein looks at the...
Nursery Equipment: Case study - Powers of attraction
Trimdon Grange Infant and Nursery School can offer some important pointers on...
Nursery Equipment: Literacy - Out loud
Outdoors, children can lose their inhibitions when it comes to reading, writing...
Nursery Equipment: Clothing - Dress sense
Not all practitioners share children's love of the outdoors, whatever the weather....
Nursery Equipment: Shelters - Rain or shine
A nursery's outside space is incomplete without shelter from both inclement and...
Enabling Environments: Sustainability - Far afield
A Devon sustainability project has inspired children at Newton Poppleford Primary School...
Enabling Environments: Roof garden - Green oasis
A nursery in central London has turned garage roofs into a haven...
Enabling Environments: Composting - Wasting time
Children learned from a TV gardener about a vital stage in plant...
Enabling Environments: Visits and Visitors, Part 5 - Gardener's world
There's a bit more to gardening and growing than one early years...
Enabling Environments - Urban Forest School - City break
The forest school approach need not be limited to early years settings...
Enabling Environments: All about ... Creating a wildlife area
The best way to get children to think about our disappearing wildlife...
Enabling Environments: Wild Food - Little weeds!
Never mind if the plant is a weed, it's wild, free, cookable...
Enabling Environments: All about ... feeding the birds
In any kind of setting you can provide a way for children...
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