One of the most popular and inspiring sessions at Nursery World's Early Years Foundation Stage conferences (in Birmingham in February, and in London last week) has been the lively and impassioned demonstration from Michael Pettaval, head of Randolph Beresford Early Years Centre, of how essential outdoor play is to children's well-being. He shows the children taking risks, coping with challenge, discovering, and just being.
This week's Nursery World continues the theme in several features. In 'Let's explore ... poetry, rhyme and song outdoors' (pages 18-20), Helen Bromley looks at how the oral tradition began outside, and at how you can use counting rhymes, skipping games, circle songs and more for playground fun and learning.
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