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Children have a deep urge to explore and experience everything around them, trying to make meaning of their world. Through this they can competently construct their own learning, sharing their interests with tuned-in and supportive adults. Our role is to facilitate this by providing children with appropriate and stimulating opportunities in a wide range of forms. We can then support them to help them make the most of it over time.

Resources are an important part of the outdoor play environment. The kinds of resources available to young children can significantly affect the nature of their experiences. A practitioner can have a major influence on the quality of children's play and learning through focusing on the smaller, easily obtained resources that support aspects of provision such as pretend play, water play and growing. The best resources don't have to be costly, and by selecting those with high play value you need less in terms of variety, and can concentrate on having enough of everything to allow harmonious use by all.