Life on a farm is special, as the children attending Red Hen Day Nursery fully appreciate. Their setting is situated on a working farm and play and learning outdoors is an integral part of the 'enabling environment'.
The nursery layout enables direct access to the outdoors from each of the five rooms, so all the children, from babies up to kindergarten, are easily able to free-flow into the courtyard. The kindergarten has an additional doorway to its own outdoor play area among mature trees. Practitioners also take children to the paddocks, vegetable garden, nature trails, woodland or adjacent farmland - it's usual to enter the nursery building and encounter very few children. Last year, a further three acres of farmland was taken out of the cropping rotation to provide a nature education area with wetlands and a programme of tree planting, with which the children have been involved.
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