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Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Boxing clever

    Features
  • Monday, January 11, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Role-play boxes can increase children’s involvement in the outdoors beyond typical activities and improve their learning, reports Everton Nursery School and Family Centre’s Lyndsey Gardner

Grow your own wood

    News
  • Wednesday, February 12, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Fancy revamping your outdoor area this year? Some free trees from the Woodland Trust may provide some inspiration.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Hit the trail

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  • Monday, October 19, 2015
    • | Nursery World
In an extract from his book of story-based adventures, Adam Dove explains how woodland fairies and a big-footed troll can provide an exciting and engaging starting point for outdoor learning

We've explored… tadpoles

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  • Monday, June 26, 2023
    • | Nursery World
A visit to a pond inspired the children at one setting in West Yorkshire to learn about tadpoles and frogs and recreate their environment in their play. By Annette Rawstrone

Outdoors: the plants in my street - willow

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 3, 2023
    • | Nursery World
Plants are local to everyone and fertile ground for activity ideas. This year, outdoors specialist Julie Mountain will be pointing out some commonly found flora and what you can do with it

Your outdoor calendar: December 2022

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  • Tuesday, November 22, 2022
    • | Nursery World
It's magical midwinter – wrap children up warmly and make the most of this special time of year. Playing outdoors strengthens children's immune systems and build physical and emotional resilience. Consider starting outdoor play sessions with a vigorous ‘parkour’ routine, leaping and bounding and rolling and twisting your way around the space to warm up. Julie Mountain

Outdoors: Stem – experimenting with friction

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  • Tuesday, February 27, 2024
    • | Nursery World
Forces are all around us – this month we’re going to explore the forces that relate to motion on wheels: pushing and pulling, and the effects of gravity and friction. By Julie Mountain and Felicity Robinson

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Born free

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  • Friday, June 14, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Children in one West Sussex school have been getting close to nature thanks to a creative project and the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust free visits programme, says Jordan Chamberlain.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Thrilling!

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  • Monday, October 31, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Julie Mountain continues her series on Newham’s Outdoors and Active programme by looking at its approach to open spaces, surfaces and level changes, climbing, large objects and storage

Your outdoor calendar: February 2022

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  • Tuesday, February 1, 2022
    • | Nursery World
Brrrrr! February is the coldest month of the year in the UK, so make sure everyone – children and adults alike – keep busy and active when playing outdoors in order to keep warm. Aim for rosy cheeks after a few minutes outdoors and you will know you are getting it right, says Julie Mountain

Your outdoor calendar: April 2022

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  • Tuesday, March 29, 2022
    • | Nursery World
Wet, wild and windy April is a brilliant month to spend quality time outdoors, experiencing everything the weather can throw at us and using nature’s springtime bounties for inspirational natural play, says Julie Mountain

Your outdoor calendar: June 2022

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  • Tuesday, May 31, 2022
    • | Nursery World
Early summer is so very full of promise – get active outdoors to make the most of warm days and light evenings, suggests Julie Mountain

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