Outdoors and Active – an action research project led by the London Borough of Newham – has taken early years practitioners on an eight-month exploration of movement in two- and three-year-olds, generating intriguing discoveries and practical, realistic changes to nursery routines, resources and risk-taking.
The aim of the project was to tackle the shocking and seemingly inexorable increase in obesity in children, and it involved 20 practitioners from nurseries, schools, PVI settings and children’s centres.
Over the course of the project, they explored:
Now complete, Newham aims to share the programme’s outcomes, providing simple, cost-effective ways of maximising opportunities to get children outdoors and active.
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