Nursery World - Outdoor Play in the Early Years

Some food for thought in your professional career Outdoor Play in the Early Years: Management and innovation (second edition). Edited by Helen Bilton. (David Fulton, 15, 020 8996 3618). Reviewed by Kathryn Solly, headteacher at Chelsea Open Air Nursery School, London

Outdoor Play in the Early Years: Management and innovation (second edition). Edited by Helen Bilton. (David Fulton, 15, 020 8996 3618). Reviewed by Kathryn Solly, headteacher at Chelsea Open Air Nursery School, London

This book is a must-have for any early years setting and should also be a priority for the whole of the Foundation Stage, which the author has had the sense to include in this second edition. The book is a celebration of a neglected area of the early years curriculum, which should be based in soundly established principles in each setting. She links these principles to the Early Learning Goals and provides some examples of planning and observation, which enable good practice to continue outside.

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