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Joint winner, Houghton Community Nursery School, Houghton le Spring
The physical and mental benefits of a Forest School week for children at a South Shields setting have exceeded expectations.
Let children's imaginations fly high, while steering their learning with activities based on a favourite story book as suggested by early years adviser Judith Stevens.
Mills Hill in Oldham, one of the first schools to be made a National Teaching School, focuses on co-operative learning from the Foundation Stage onwards, finds Marianne Sargent
Sue Ball, of Setting Sail Day Nursery, Harrogate, describes the development of her Forest School and the benefits for the children.
Use these key points for discussion at staff meetings or with parents and carers: 1 Do you involve parents and members of the community in your investigations of the local area?
Gardening helps children's development and brings them closer to nature, so having the right tools is essential, says Nicole Weinstein.
Factors for practitioners to bear in mind when children move up to reception are explained by Lynn Beckett and Dr Neil de Reybekill.
Encouraging children to use their bodies in any way they want stimulates their physical and brain development and has a noticeable beneficial effect on behaviour, writes Annette Rawstrone
People and communities are the subject of the last part of our series on resourcing for Understanding the World. By Nicole Weinstein