How can leaders ensure that staff are supporting the setting’s outdoors provision to the best of their ability, asks Professor Jan White
What is different about being outdoors? Professor Jan White sets out how early years settings can offer a range of unique experiences as part of outdoor play
Role-play boxes can increase children’s involvement in the outdoors beyond typical activities and improve their learning, reports Everton Nursery School and Family Centre’s Lyndsey Gardner
For children to get the most out of their time outdoors, practitioners need to develop the right qualities for leadership, says Annie Davy.
Girls consistently achieve better than the boys, but research suggests that the way to male attainment is to send them outdoors, says Sarah Ghahremani.
Playing outdoors after dark can be exciting and challenging. Julie Mountain advises on making the most of outside spaces all day.
With spring in the air, now is the perfect time to think about how you can make the most of the great outdoors
Boogie Mites’ Sue Newman on what the opportunities for music-making are outdoors
Boys were encouraged to discover new ways to play, learn and practise independence outdoors in a project described by Julie Mountain.
Julie Mountain visits past Nursery World award winners to discover how to resource and lead a high quality ‘wild’ space outdoors