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In the first of a four-part series on planning your outdoor area,Julie Mountain introduces the '7Cs' approach for enabling high-quality play.
In part three of her series on the 7Cs approach to planning outdoor spaces for young children, Julie Mountain explains the importance of incorporating 'clarity' and 'challenge'.
With all their good intentions, children's centres may still let down their users through design faults that can be altered reasonably easily. Manager Colette Tait shows how.
Understanding both physical and psychological environments is key when creating areas for two-year-olds. Julia Manning-Morton explains how settings' management of this impacts on children's...
Practitioners can support children's learning by providing as many real-life experiences with minibeasts as possible. Nicole Weinstein suggests resource ideas to make this possible.
Is it time to reassess our view of the enabling environment? Turning the term on its head, an environment that enables is more than the adult and more than the child – it becomes a context for intent,...
Children gain an immense sense of achievement from creating something beautiful from a few simple sticks, says Julie Mountain.
Here are some ideas to show how a nursery can build up a wealth of resources to help children to learn, appreciate and have fun with the largest land animal, from Jean Evans.
Sunbeams Day Nursery has embedded loose-parts play into provision across all its settings, transforming practice and inspiring children. Nicole Weinstein reports
Making the move from nursery to primary school can throw up challenges for everyone involved, but settings can take steps to make the process easier. Rebecca Fisk suggests some methods.