Nursery World - Outdoors – Go with the flow

Make the most of outdoor learning by providing free-flowing and diverse spaces, explains Julie Mountain in Part 2 of this series

At Farley Sparsholt Nursery, the children are outdoors most of the day, with yurts providing the only indoor spaces

As children return to the once familiar surroundings of their setting, the delicate and nuanced process of easing them back into routines, places and relationships will rightly focus on the needs of the child, not the needs of the curriculum, and the process will be different from the ‘settling in’ period for new starters.

Young children who have been subjected to disruption will benefit from support to reintegrate themselves into the spaces and places they have loved, and given what we now understand about transmission of Covid-19 in young children, providing a free-flowing, rich and diverse outdoors space should be a high priority for settings.

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