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Your outdoor calendar: September

Leap into the new school year with a commitment to creating an annual maintenance and improvement plan for your outdoor space. By Julie Mountain

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IN A TIGHT SPOT

Lots of settings, whether offering year-round or term time only provision, will have been reflecting on practice over the quieter summer months, perhaps thinking about how to become more efficient in setting up and packing away and making better use of familiar resources. Now would be an excellent time to plan and begin to implement ‘responsibility routines’ outdoors.

One of the factors that contributes to the higher levels of physicality and risk-taking in the Japanese settings I have studied was the presence of shared responsibilities and clear routines:

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