An essential guide on how to encourage children's learning and support their development through year-round outdoor exploration. It follows one primary school through an entire academic year, capturing the challenges, discoveries and joys of children and adults co-exploring outdoors together.
Taking the First Steps Outside provides a clear and accessible guide to making outdoor play, teaching and learning suitable for very young children. It follows the experiences of a group of children under three as they learn to understand, appreciate and love the outdoors, recording how the children change and develop when learning in an outdoor environment. Highly illustrated, it includes ideas for and reflection upon outdoor play. Demonstrating that with dedicated and knowledgable staff, very young children can achieve excellent progress and involvement in an outdoor environment, this is a vital resource for anyone wishing to improve the education of very young children outdoors.
Offering clear and detailed guidance on outdoor play, this book features over 100 vibrant photographs that illustrate various activities and techniques. It serves as a comprehensive resource for parents, educators, and caregivers, emphasizing the importance of outdoor experiences for children's development and creativity.
A guide to create effective outdoor environments for young children's learning. It covers various aspects of working outdoors in the early years, and explains the importance of outdoor play to children's development. It shows how to: manage and set up the outdoor area, allow children to take managed risks, and make sense of work and play.