As a regular judge of the Nursery World Awards ’Enabling Environments' category, I’ve always hankered after visiting the winners, and last year I finally managed to do just that, taking in five sector-leading settings to explore what they do, how they do it, and what everyday successful practice looks like.
The first thing to highlight is that they only truly had two things in common: very physically active children; and a commitment to children spending long lengths of time outdoors, in both freely chosen and adult-led learning through play. In each setting, the provision looked and felt quite different, but they all had an understanding of the adult role in facilitating effective learning. I hope this series will offer insight into how any setting, no matter its size, location or type, can provide learning experiences that recognise the unique nature of outdoors at the same time as integrating outdoors seamlessly into children's learning and development.
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