Outdoor provision is high on the early years agenda at the moment, as the huge number of entries to our Outdoor Challenge, run with Learning Through Landscapes, confirmed. As part of our work with LTL, Nursery World was a member of a specially convened group which met to discuss what the early years vision for outdoors play should be and how that should be expressed in terms of a set of values. So we're really pleased this week to provide you with a lovely Nursery World/LTL poster setting out the vision and values and including a wonderful set of images depicting the special nature of outdoor play. We hope you will all display this in your settings and incorporate the values in developing your outside provision.
Outdoor provision is high on the early years agenda at the moment, as the huge number of entries to our Outdoor Challenge, run with Learning Through Landscapes, confirmed. As part of our work with LTL, Nursery World was a member of a specially convened group which met to discuss what the early years vision for outdoors play should be and how that should be expressed in terms of a set of values.
So we're really pleased this week to provide you with a lovely Nursery World/LTL poster setting out the vision and values and including a wonderful set of images depicting the special nature of outdoor play. We hope you will all display this in your settings and incorporate the values in developing your outside provision.
LTL has also written an article about the launch of its new early years service, which should give a major boost to improving the quality of young children's experiences outside (see pages 12-13).
Outdoors is also the theme for the feature accompanying this year's student essay competition asking entrants to write on caring for birth to threes (pages 14-15). And with Professional Nanny and an Exhibition Preview also free with this week's issue, everyone should have plenty to read and think about.
