Special Focus: Now is the time to make the most of your space
When it comes to resources, storage and activities, how can early years settings optimise their...
Outdoor Provision & Play
Ideas, support and information for best practice in outdoor provision and play in the Early Years Foundation Stage. With a wealth of articles on all aspects of the outdoors, including forest schools, gardening and the best early years resources for your setting. An invaluable guide to this vital area of early years practice.
Outdoors: How to resource a 'wild' space
Julie Mountain visits past Nursery World award winners to discover how to resource and lead a high...
Special Report: Strategies to make play experiences inclusive
Ensuring that outdoors learning and play experiences are available to all children regardless of...
Outdoors Key 8 – Creating special experiences
What is different about being outdoors? Professor Jan White sets out how early years settings can...
Outdoors: key 7 - Cause and effect
As part of a series on 12 keys to unlocking learning outdoors, Professor Jan White considers what...
Your outdoor calendar: July 2022
While babies should be kept out of direct sunlight, older children can slip on a hat, spray on...
Your outdoor calendar: May 2022
Spring has sprung! The natural world is overflowing with joy, so make the most of the bounty on your...
Your outdoor calendar: April 2022
Wet, wild and windy April is a brilliant month to spend quality time outdoors, experiencing...
Your outdoor calendar – March 2022
The ascent into springtime is gathering pace and there’s so much going on outdoors, so try not to...
Your outdoor calendar: February 2022
Brrrrr! February is the coldest month of the year in the UK, so make sure everyone – children and...
Your outdoor calendar: January 2022
This year’s outdoor calendar will focus on physicality and physical development outdoors with Julie...
Using your common sense outdoors
Forget tricycles and plastic climbing frames, start focusing on child development and outdoors – ...
Your outdoor calendar: December
Midwinter is a special time of year. Julie Mountain suggests how you can make the most of its...
Your outdoor calendar: September
Summer may be over, but September often heralds sunny, warm days, so be sure to offer children...
Your outdoor calendar: August
As the UK continues to ‘open up’ after so many restrictions on children’s outdoor activities, Julie...
Your outdoor calendar: July
Activities and tasks to help get your children outside this month. By Julie Mountain
Your outdoor calendar: June
Activities and tasks to help get your children outside this month. By Julie Mountain
Your outdoor calendar: March
Activities and tasks to help get your children outside this month. By Julie Mountain
Outdoors – Go with the flow
Make the most of outdoor learning by providing free-flowing and diverse spaces, explains Julie...
Outdoors - Open Days
The open-air movement in the early 20th century aimed to prevent the spread of tuberculosis. So, is...
Outdoors - Go all out
Moving more provision outdoors makes even more sense than ever against the background of...
Outdoors - A shared vision
How a major redevelopment of Oliver Thomas Nursery School’s outdoor space involved the whole...
Parent’s Guide - Early learning: Forest School
What will children actually do during Forest School sessions at nursery and what are the...
Early Years in School: Outdoors - Another world
Being outdoors provides children with developmental benefits that cannot be replicated indoors....
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Boxing clever
Role-play boxes can increase children’s involvement in the outdoors beyond typical activities and...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Hit the trail
In an extract from his book of story-based adventures, Adam Dove explains how woodland fairies and a...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - In full swing
Action research has helped to develop a nursery garden to better provide open-ended opportunities...
EYFS Best Practice: All about... Outdoor nurseries
Settings based on outdoor learning are growing in popularity - and providing focused, creative...
Nursery Equipment: Outdoors - Cover all bases
With nurseries spending an increasing amount of time outside, many are investing in outdoor...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Free spirits
A Beach School is opening up a wealth of new learning experiences for children at one nursery in...
Enabling Environments: Hand-eye co-ordination - Take your pick
Outdoor environments can offer good opportunities for children to build and develop hand-eye...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Whatever the weather
Active outdoor play has many benefits for children. Viv Hampshire explains how her children's centre...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Going strong
Extending ways to build children's physical strength with a range of interesting resources and...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Rapid response
Providing opportunities for active outdoor play significantly increases children's agility and it...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Tree time
The physical and mental benefits of a Forest School week for children at a South Shields setting...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - After dark
Playing outdoors after dark can be exciting and challenging. Julie Mountain advises on making the...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Out of the wood
Sue Ball, of Setting Sail Day Nursery, Harrogate, describes the development of her Forest School and...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Stick together!
Children gain an immense sense of achievement from creating something beautiful from a few simple...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Get the bug!
There's no end to the learning as well as the fun that can be found in creating a habitat for...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Come out to play
Boys were encouraged to discover new ways to play, learn and practise independence outdoors in a...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Making sense
Developing a neglected area into a garden enabling free-flow access to the outdoors has transformed...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Step into the story
Viv Hampshire explains how she organised a story walk to bring the popular picture book We're Going...
Enabling Environments: Forest Schools: Part 4 - Down to the woods
Observation, assessment and planning are the foundation of any forest school programme, as Sarah...
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