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Outdoors: STEM – breath of fresh air

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  • Wednesday, March 27, 2024
  • | Nursery World
Air is not only essential for life but is also a fantastic STEM resource in its own right, and Julie Mountain and Felicity Robinson’s ideas will blow your mind

Your Outdoor Calendar: October

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  • Tuesday, September 28, 2021
  • | Nursery World
With autumn under way, explore this time of changing colours and nature slowing down, while enjoying some necessary maintenance tasks. Julie Mountain explains

Your outdoor calendar: November

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  • Tuesday, October 26, 2021
  • | Nursery World
This month, Julie Mountain is focusing on STEM because quick science, technology, engineering and maths projects are great when the weather is so unpredictable

Outdoors: Key 1 - Get out there

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  • Tuesday, January 4, 2022
  • | Nursery World
In this first part of a new series on unlocking learning in the outdoor environment, Professor Jan White considers building practitioner confidence and changing mindsets

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Passing it on

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  • Monday, November 14, 2016
  • | Nursery World
In the third part of her series on Newham’s Outdoors and Active programme, Julie Mountain finds out how it has involved parents and carers to create a family culture of movement and physicality

My working life ... Forest school leader

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  • Monday, November 3, 2014
  • | Nursery World
Like those working indoors, forest school practitioners must juggle play, learning and development, along with health and safety in an environment that can pose greater hazards.

Outdoors in Japan, Part 4 - Go to town!

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  • Monday, August 5, 2019
  • | Nursery World
When urban settings don’t have outside spaces, children in Japan maintain outdoor play and a connection with nature by regularly visiting local parks. By Julie Mountain

Outdoors - Ground work

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  • Monday, May 14, 2018
  • | Nursery World
The natural environment is benefiting children with sensory processing problems at Merseyside’s first outdoor nursery, explains Nicole Weinstein

Your outdoor calendar: October

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  • Tuesday, September 27, 2022
  • | Nursery World
The days are getting shorter and you can literally smell the seasons changing – but autumn is a wonderful time to be outdoors and active! By Julie Mountain

We've explored… gardening

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  • Friday, June 2, 2023
  • | Nursery World
After reading a story about a green-fingered young gardener, nursery school children were inspired to design a plot of their own. By Annette Rawstrone

Outdoors: Natural adventures

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  • Wednesday, August 2, 2023
  • | Nursery World
How do settings with the best outdoor spaces embed high-quality teaching and learning? Julie Mountain visited some high-quality award-winners to find out

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