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Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Clear thinking

Monday, June 2, 2014

| Nursery World

In part three of her series on the 7Cs approach to planning outdoor spaces for young children, Julie Mountain explains the importance of incorporating 'clarity' and 'challenge'.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... fire

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Monday, June 2, 2014

| Nursery World

Handled safely, fire can be an engaging and thrilling natural learning resource, writes Marianne Sargent.

Nursery Equipment: Sleep Time - Zzzzz...

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Monday, May 19, 2014

| Nursery World

Whether sleeping indoors or outside, the key is to cater to every child's needs, writes Katy Morton.

Enabling Environments: Collections - On the loose

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Monday, May 19, 2014

| Nursery World

Loose parts resources, which can be found, recycled or bought, empower children's creativity and inventiveness, particularly in the outdoor environment. Nicole Weinstein gives some tips.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - In context

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Monday, May 5, 2014

| Nursery World

Early years landscape designer Julie Mountain continues her exploration of an innovative Canadian approach to early childhood landscape design - the 7Cs - by looking at context and connectivity.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... trains

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Monday, May 5, 2014

| Nursery World

Use this theme as a starting point for a large-scale project with many benefits, says Marianne Sargent.

Enabling Environments: Collections - Boom, bang, boom

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Monday, April 21, 2014

| Nursery World

In the second instalment of a two-part series on pattern, Nicole Weinstein looks at language, movement and sound - and suggests some resources for assisting exploration and learning.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Character building

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Monday, April 7, 2014

| Nursery World

In the first of a four-part series on planning your outdoor area,Julie Mountain introduces the '7Cs' approach for enabling high-quality play.

Enabling Environments: Collections - The world of pattern

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Monday, March 24, 2014

| Nursery World

In the first of a two-part series on pattern, Nicole Weinstein looks at the concept that underpins it all - mathematics -and suggests resources to encourage children to design, build or observe patterns in order to make sense of the world around them.

Enabling Environments: Scrapstore - To a fine art

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Monday, March 10, 2014

| Nursery World

For an average of £15 a month, nurseries can access an 'Aladdin's cave' of donated resources in London.

Enabling Environments: Collections - Please touch

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Monday, February 24, 2014

| Nursery World

Providing babies and toddlers with a variety of textures and other sensory resources lets them make the most of their natural tendency to explore. Nicole Weinstein gives some pointers.

Enabling Environments: Arctic temperatures

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Monday, February 24, 2014

| Nursery World

An award-winning documentary has become required viewing for early years specialists around the world.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore...pancakes

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Monday, February 10, 2014

| Nursery World

Make use of Shrove Tuesday to teach children about tradition and the spirit of sharing - and to have a feast, of course, says Marianne Sargent.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Stay and play

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Monday, January 27, 2014

| Nursery World

Cold, wet and windy weather doesn't have to mean staying indoors. In the final part of her series on winter play outdoors, Julie Mountain suggests some creative approaches for fun and learning.

Enabling Environments: Collections - Up to speed

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Monday, January 27, 2014

| Nursery World

Exploring the concepts of fast and slow opens up a huge range of possibilities for learning and fun. Nicole Weinstein suggests some approaches and resources to get children thinking.