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Outdoors: Key 2 - All aboard!

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

| Nursery World

Professor Jan White looks at how to ensure that parents are fully on board with your outdoor provision, in the second part of her series

Enabling Environments: Collections - Glorious mud

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Monday, June 16, 2014

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This natural material opens up opportunities for children to experiment and explore both real and imaginary worlds - and a mud kitchen makes a good central point.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Only natural

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Monday, November 4, 2013

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A woodland wonderland at a nursery in West Lancashire is helping children to develop understanding and empathy for the world around them. Ruth Stokes investigates.

Enabling Environments: Forest Schools: Part 3 - Aiming high

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

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Planning your Forest Schools programme for the short and long term requires thinking exemplified in these cases from Sarah Blackwell.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Why are the leaves yellow?

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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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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 - Stay and play

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Monday, January 27, 2014

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Cold, wet and windy weather doesn't have to mean staying indoors. In the final part of her series on winter play outdoors, Julie Mountain suggests some creative approaches for fun and learning.

Enabling Environments: Birds - Watch the birdie

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Tree time

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Friday, February 22, 2013

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The physical and mental benefits of a Forest School week for children at a South Shields setting have exceeded expectations.

Enabling Environments: Forest Schools: Part 2 - Lead on

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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Being a Forest Schools practitioner requires a constant awareness of the opportunities presented for the children, writes Sarah Blackwell.

EYFS Activities - Outdoor resource box… washing day

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Monday, May 16, 2016

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How to resource for this outdoor role-play activity. By Lyndsey Gardner

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - In context

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Monday, May 5, 2014

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Early years landscape designer Julie Mountain continues her exploration of an innovative Canadian approach to early childhood landscape design - the 7Cs - by looking at context and connectivity.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Making sense

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Monday, September 5, 2011

| Nursery World

Developing a neglected area into a garden enabling free-flow access to the outdoors has transformed the under-twos' day at one nursery, as Ruth Thomson hears.

Enabling Environments: Forest schools - Talking trees

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Friday, March 8, 2013

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A forest environment stimulates the use of descriptive language, says Caroline Watts, a Forest Schools leader for several schools in Kent.

Outdoors in Japan, part 2 - Have a go!

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Monday, June 10, 2019

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When it comes to risk-taking and resilience, Japan’s settings get the most out of adults and the outdoors, finds Julie Mountain

EYFS Best Practice: All about … beach schools

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

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Beach School sessions allow for the same ‘awe and wonder’ for children and exploration experience as in Forest School– but with added drama. By Annette Rawstrone

Outdoors: Key 1 - Get out there

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Tuesday, January 4, 2022

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In this first part of a new series on unlocking learning in the outdoor environment, Professor Jan White considers building practitioner confidence and changing mindsets

Outdoor Challenge: Special Report - A taste for adventure

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Tuesday, March 29, 2022

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How can organised outdoor spaces compensate for children’s lack of risk and challenge in everyday life? Nicole Weinstein investigates

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Stick together!

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Friday, May 25, 2012

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Children gain an immense sense of achievement from creating something beautiful from a few simple sticks, says Julie Mountain.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Whatever the weather

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Friday, May 31, 2013

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Active outdoor play has many benefits for children. Viv Hampshire explains how her children's centre is encouraging families to get out and about, rain or shine.

Enabling Environment: Outdoors - Play it safe

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Monday, December 16, 2013

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In part two of a series on winter, Julie Mountain looks at creating spaces that allow children to make the most of the great outdoors.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Passing it on

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Monday, November 14, 2016

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In the third part of her series on Newham’s Outdoors and Active programme, Julie Mountain finds out how it has involved parents and carers to create a family culture of movement and physicality

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Get the bug!

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Monday, April 2, 2012

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There's no end to the learning as well as the fun that can be found in creating a habitat for minibeasts, says Julie Mountain, a consultant working for Learning Through Landscapes.

Outdoors in Japan, Part 4 - Go to town!

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Monday, August 5, 2019

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When urban settings don’t have outside spaces, children in Japan maintain outdoor play and a connection with nature by regularly visiting local parks. By Julie Mountain

Outdoors - Ground work

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Monday, May 14, 2018

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The natural environment is benefiting children with sensory processing problems at Merseyside’s first outdoor nursery, explains Nicole Weinstein

EYFS Activities: Five things to do with… a new recruit

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Monday, March 19, 2018

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Make sure new-starters appreciate the importance of outdoor play at your setting by following these tips. By Julie Mountain

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Outdoors: Key 2 - All aboard!

Enabling Environments: Collections - Glorious mud

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Only natural

Enabling Environments: Forest Schools: Part 3 - Aiming high

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Why are the leaves yellow?

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Stay and play

Enabling Environments: Birds - Watch the birdie

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Tree time

Enabling Environments: Forest Schools: Part 2 - Lead on

EYFS Activities - Outdoor resource box… washing day

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - In context

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Making sense

Enabling Environments: Forest schools - Talking trees

Outdoors in Japan, part 2 - Have a go!

EYFS Best Practice: All about … beach schools

Outdoors: Key 1 - Get out there

Outdoor Challenge: Special Report - A taste for adventure

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Stick together!

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Whatever the weather

Enabling Environment: Outdoors - Play it safe

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Passing it on

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Get the bug!

Outdoors in Japan, Part 4 - Go to town!

Outdoors - Ground work

EYFS Activities: Five things to do with… a new recruit

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