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A three-year place-based learning project helped children to locate themselves in the community and wider world, says Will Coleman.
These dark spaces hold the promise of adventure for children and can promote fun, learning and creativity, says Marianne Sargent.
A project involving British and international nurseries is focusing on getting young children to engage with their local communities. Marianne Sargent finds out how it is taking shape.
In looking to ease the transition to nursery, settings can also find ways to engage with the children currently in their care. Alison Anderson shares her experience devising a programme with this goal...
With all their good intentions, children's centres may still let down their users through design faults that can be altered reasonably easily. Manager Colette Tait shows how.
More and more studies are showing the importance to health of access to natural green environments, reports Annette Rawstrone
The importance of making spaces in which children and their carers can have freedom to think, talk and create was stressed at a major early years conference at Nottingham University earlier this...
Joint winner, Houghton Community Nursery School, Houghton le Spring
Early years settings' work with families can take a new dimension when everybody gets outdoors together, says Annie Davy, early years advisor at Learning through Landscapes.
In the first of a four-part series on planning your outdoor area,Julie Mountain introduces the '7Cs' approach for enabling high-quality play.