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Enabling Environments: Outdoors - In full swing

Monday, October 19, 2015

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Action research has helped to develop a nursery garden to better provide open-ended opportunities for learning, as well improving practice. Teacher Sue Duglan breaks down the transformation.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - After dark

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Friday, January 25, 2013

| Nursery World

Playing outdoors after dark can be exciting and challenging. Julie Mountain advises on making the most of outside spaces all day.

Enabling Environments: Forest school diary - glorious mud

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Friday, August 3, 2012

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Rain continued to be a source of fascination, says Caroline Watts, forest school leader, Reflections Nursery & Forest School, Worthing, West Sussex

EYFS Activities: Five ways to explore… Tarpaulins

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Monday, February 18, 2019

| Nursery World

If you don’t already have a tarp collection at your setting, perhaps these ideas will tempt you, says Julie Mountain

Enabling Environments: All about ... Creating a wildlife area

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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

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The best way to get children to think about our disappearing wildlife is to have them take an active part in its resurrection - and it's really simple to do, says Mary Whiting.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - In their element

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

| Nursery World

Girls consistently achieve better than the boys, but research suggests that the way to male attainment is to send them outdoors, says Sarah Ghahremani.

Outdoors: the plants in my street - willow

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Tuesday, January 3, 2023

| Nursery World

Plants are local to everyone and fertile ground for activity ideas. This year, outdoors specialist Julie Mountain will be pointing out some commonly found flora and what you can do with it

Enabling Environments: Birth to three - Logging on

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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

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A small outdoor area provides huge opportunities for play and learning at one pre-school that can draw on Forest School leadership. Michelle Shaw and Ruth Thompson describe how they created it.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Born free

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Friday, June 14, 2013

| Nursery World

Children in one West Sussex school have been getting close to nature thanks to a creative project and the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust free visits programme, says Jordan Chamberlain.

Enabling environments outdoor learning: In charge

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

| Nursery World

We found that less was more when we cleared our school's outdoor area and let children choose their own challenges in physical play, says Jane Simons.

Outdoors: key 3 - Freedom to choose

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Tuesday, March 1, 2022

| Nursery World

Continuing her series, Professor Jan White discusses why children should be able to choose to be outside when they need to

Outdoors: Key 4 - In and out

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Tuesday, March 29, 2022

| Nursery World

Professor Jan White considers how to get children and staff outdoors and back inside again with ease

EYFS Activities: Five ways to explore… maths

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Monday, May 28, 2018

| Nursery World

Going outside to ‘do’ maths is an effective way to engage young children. Julie Mountain offers some tips

Outdoors: The plants in my street – grass

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

| Nursery World

Let grass grow, says Julie Mountain, and discover a world of sensory, STEM and environmental benefits

Outdoors: How to resource a 'wild' space

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

| Nursery World

Julie Mountain visits past Nursery World award winners to discover how to resource and lead a high quality ‘wild’ space outdoors

Outdoors: Creating inclusive outdoor environments

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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

| Nursery World

How can outdoors be an enabling learning environment for all children? Julie Mountain reports on how award-winning early years settings provide routes to inclusion outside

Outdoor - Fine days at Little Foxes

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Monday, August 20, 2018

| Nursery World

Children’s fine motor skills are developing speedily at Little Foxes Forest School, an outdoor nursery in Bristol, thanks to the range of activities on offer, Nicole Weinstein discovers

Enabling Environments: Forest Schools: Part 5 - On fire

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Monday, July 11, 2011

| Nursery World

Light the sparks of learning and independence in Forest School activities using fire. Sarah Blackwell explains how to do it safely, and Forest Schools Birmingham and Midlands describe their experiences in an online-only case study

Enabling Environments: Hand-eye co-ordination - Take your pick

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Friday, July 26, 2013

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Outdoor environments can offer good opportunities for children to build and develop hand-eye co-ordination, if the right interventions are made. Julie Mountain considers the best approaches.

Enabling Environments: Wild Food - Little weeds!

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

| Nursery World

Never mind if the plant is a weed, it's wild, free, cookable and edible, as children and their families found out with Viv Hampshire.

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Enabling Environments: Outdoors - In full swing

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - After dark

Enabling Environments: Forest school diary - glorious mud

EYFS Activities: Five ways to explore… Tarpaulins

Enabling Environments: All about ... Creating a wildlife area

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - In their element

Outdoors: the plants in my street - willow

Enabling Environments: Birth to three - Logging on

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Born free

Enabling environments outdoor learning: In charge

Outdoors: key 3 - Freedom to choose

Outdoors: Key 4 - In and out

EYFS Activities: Five ways to explore… maths

Outdoors: The plants in my street – grass

Outdoors: How to resource a 'wild' space

Outdoors: Creating inclusive outdoor environments

Outdoor - Fine days at Little Foxes

Enabling Environments: Forest Schools: Part 5 - On fire

Enabling Environments: Hand-eye co-ordination - Take your pick

Enabling Environments: Wild Food - Little weeds!

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