Nursery World - Children to enjoy a new world of learning with the Playful Green Planet

Helping young children to connect with nature and community through outdoor creative play, particularly in cities and urban areas, is the aim of an innovative new project launched by charity, the RSA.

Sites at the University of Hull are set to benefit from the project.

The Playful Green Planet programme will identify areas of land in urban and economically disadvantaged areas and transform them into ecologically thriving outdoor playrooms and classrooms that encourage children’s capabilities and social activism.

The project is being run in partnership with the Eden Project and Bath Spa University in response to the current gap in children’s interaction with nature, with research showing that three-quarters of children currently spend less time outdoors that what is recommended for prison inmates and four out of five children lack a connection to nature.

The first two areas to benefit from the project, funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, have been announced as Coldside – one of the most economically disadvantaged areas in Dundee, Scotland – and a set of sites at the University of Hull in East Yorkshire.

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