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Education is not just something delivered to children by adults, but a process that arises from the experiences and the environment of their daily lives, say Tullia Musatti and Susanna Mayer.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Crocodiles

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

| Nursery World

See how children's interests and a surprise piece of inspiration led to a nursery-wide project that prompted yet more projects, with Angela Chick.

Enabling Environments: Wild Food - Little weeds!

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

| Nursery World

Never mind if the plant is a weed, it's wild, free, cookable and edible, as children and their families found out with Viv Hampshire.

Enabling Environments: Birds - Watch the birdie

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

| Nursery World

You don't need to know anything about birds to enjoy watching them.

Enabling Environments: Birds - Hatching out

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

| Nursery World

See how easy it is to learn about birds, as children at Peter Pan Pre-school Nursery in Woking, Surrey, did when they put a camera in a box on their grounds and observed a pair of nesting blue tits. Nursery owner Sue Lewis describes the learning experiences.

Enabling Environments: Composting - Wasting time

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

| Nursery World

Children learned from a TV gardener about a vital stage in plant life and an environmentally useful practice when growing their own food. Annette Rawstrone hears all about it.

Enabling Environments: Gardening Indoors: Part 2 - The life of plants

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

| Nursery World

Indoor gardening activities can be excellent for learning about our natural world, says Mary Whiting.

Enabling Environments: Gardening Indoors, Part 1 - Green fingers

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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

| Nursery World

Winter indoor gardening can make a good foundation for outdoor gardening later on, says Mary Whiting in the first of two articles

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Design & technology

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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

| Nursery World

Using simple tools with simple rules will reward children with a wealth of learning and skills development, says early years consultant Linda Pound.

Enabling Environments: Forest Schools, Part 1: Location, location

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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

| Nursery World

In the first of a new series on running a Forest School programme, Sarah Blackwell identifies priorities in locating and using the land.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Why are the leaves yellow?

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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

| Nursery World

What do children really get out of playing outdoors? An action research project into children's fascinations and explorations in nature, described by Annie Davy and Jennie Creese, found the evidence.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Feet first

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

| Nursery World

Follow young children on the trail of new sensory experiences and inspiring ideas to take back to nursery, with Katy Morton.

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... the Reggio Approach

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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

| Nursery World

Find out about the principles behind the renowned early years centres in Reggio Emilia, Italy, and see how they have inspired practice at settings in the UK with early years consultants Linda Thornton and Pat Brunton (www.alcassociates.co.uk)

Enabling Environments - Visits & Visitors: Part 6 - Art of discovery

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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

| Nursery World

The surprising delights of visiting an outdoor exhibition and creating art from the inspiration back at nursery are explored by Tessa Fenoughty.

EYFS Best practice: All about ... Forest schools

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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

| Nursery World

Explore the forest school movement in England with a study of local projects and a trip to the country where the movement started, as practitioners reflect on what they have learned.

Enabling Environments: Visits and Visitors, Part 5 - Gardener's world

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

| Nursery World

There's a bit more to gardening and growing than one early years class thought, says Tessa Fenoughty - and a lot more to enjoy, too.

Enabling Environments: Community - What is school for?

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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

| Nursery World

A three-year place-based learning project helped children to locate themselves in the community and wider world, says Will Coleman.

Enabling Environments: Visits and Visitors, part 4 - Helping others

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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

| Nursery World

Young children's community spirit embraced people both locally and abroad. Tessa Fenoughty explains how.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Eggs

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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

| Nursery World

Life begins with an egg - and their potential for learning opportunities and fun activities is endless, as Helen Bromley demonstrates.

Enabling Environments: Visits and Visitors, Part 3 - What do you do?

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

| Nursery World

Don't assume that young children automatically know how to frame questions, says Tessa Fenoughty.

Enabling Environments: Visits and Visitors, part 2 - Set in stone

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

| Nursery World

Going on a fossil hunt showed children a new aspect of their local area and was a rich opportunity for exploring the outdoors, says Tessa Fenoughty.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - All decked out

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

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Staff at Little Acorns Nursery in Urmston, Manchester, have transformed the outdoor provision for their under-twos. Nursery manager Paula Wilkinson explains how.

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