Kathryn Solly, author of ‘Risk, Challenge and Adventure in the Early Years’ has taken a break from training childcare professionals to share her experience in...

Check out our selection of the best outdoor toys for kids to help you create an inspiring and exciting outdoor space in your back...

The beneficial effects of outdoor learning and play on children’s experiences have been known for thousands of years, but parents seem generally more afraid...

The prospect of planning nursery outings can seem daunting – even if it’s just a quick visit to the local park. There’s certainly a...

Beach Schools are a way of giving children in their early years the opportunity to learn and develop in a natural environment, sparking their...

‘She explains how the place works … how there are always three play workers present, but how rarely they intervene,...

Juliet Robertson is an author and education consultant who specialises in learning and play in outdoor contexts. After leading and managing three schools in...

The outdoors is a special playing and learning environment for all children: a place of unrestricted choice of movement and immersive sensory experience where...

For early years children, the outdoor environment appears permanent yet flexible, reassuringly familiar yet brimming over with exciting new possibilities. In such a place...

“Now in myth and ritual the great instinctive forces of civilized life have their origin: law and order, commerce and profit, craft and art,...

“A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.” ― Albert Einstein Just like generations...

The Outdoor Teaching & Learning Environment ‘One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.’ – (William Shakespeare: ‘Troilus And Cressida’) From the moment they...

Setting the Scene ‘All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child’ – (Marie Curie, scientist) Every parent knows...