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    • Advisory Visits
    • Projects
      • Current Projects
        • Get Out & Get Active!
      • Completed Projects
        • Creating a Space to Grow
        • Outside for All
        • Open Up to Outdoor Mathematics
        • Harrogate College Outdoor Learning Project
        • Heading Outdoors with Under Threes
        • Gravesham Buddying Project
        • Play & Exploration Project
        • Well-Being & Involvement Project
    • Training
      • Why Go Outdoors?
      • Developing an Enabling Environment
      • Leading Learning Outdoors
      • Implications of the revised EYFS: Outdoors
      • Characteristics of Effective Learning: Outdoors
      • Sustained Shared Thinking: Outdoors
      • Getting Outdoors with Babies and Toddlers
      • Inclusion: Outdoors for everyone!
      • Let’s Talk Outdoors!
      • Using Outdoors to Engage Parents and Carers
  • Latest News…
  • Event Offer
  • Outdoor Matters recommends…
    • Case Studies
      • Case Study: Alfreton Nursery School, Derbyshire
      • Case Study: Dimples Day Nursery, Dartford
      • Case Study: First Steps Day Nursery
      • Case Study: Farley Nursery School, Wiltshire
      • Case Study: The Pilgrim School Early Years Foundation Unit
      • Case Study: Little Explorers Day Nursery, Rochester
      • Case Study: Sandfield Natural Play Centre
      • Case Study: Child First in Northampton
    • All About the Outdoors ~ Siren Films DVD Set
    • Link2Nature -Nature Bags and Nature Baskets
    • Muddy Faces – Supplier of Outdoor Play Resources
    • Yellow Door Resources
    • Useful Resources
      • Articles
        • Article: All About Outdoors for Under Threes
        • Article: Connecting Children with Nature
        • Article: Creating an Outdoor Environment
        • Article: Let’s Talk About… Outdoor Clothing
        • Article: What is a Rocket Stove?
        • Article: Learning Away
        • Curriculum Frameworks & Guidance
        • Book Review: How children learn
      • Reports & Research
        • Report: Early Intervention – The Next Steps Graham Allen.
        • Report: The Early Years Foundations for Life, Health & Learning
        • Report: The Foundation Years – Frank Field
        • Report: Learning Outside the Classroom
        • Report: The Outdoor Environment & Natural Childhoods
      • Video & DVD Clips
        • Video: The Importance of Outdoor Play
        • Video: Making the Case for Nature-Based Play
        • Video: Outdoor Learning in Norway
        • Video: Play Outside! Adventures with Outdoor Learning in Child Care

What is Outdoor Matters?Outdoor Matters

Outdoor Matters is the quality early years training and consultancy service that promotes the importance of the outdoor environment for young children’s play, learning and development.

Outdoor Matters supports early years practitioners, and other professionals working with schools and settings.

Outdoor Matters can help you implement the revised EYFS – now statutory!

Click here to find out how Outdoor Matters can help you deliver the EYFS outdoors.

 

Outdoor Matters can help you to maximise the potential of your outdoor environment.

To take the first step towards creating a more enabling environment and improving your children’s experiences just click here and get in touch…..

What do clients say?

Gail is unusually capable at both policy and practice – combining a deep commitment to children and the outdoors with a real understanding of how to build and motivate. I hope she will continue to show my teams how it is and how it should be….’

Tom Shea, Owner of Child First Nurseries

Gail Ryder Richardson ~ Helping you with Outdoor Matters

  • Contact gail@outdoormatters
  • Report: The Outdoor Environment & Natural Childhoods
  • Implications of the revised EYFS: Outdoors
  • Training
  • Advisory Visits
  • Outdoor Matters recommends…
  • Useful Resources
  • Case Study: Dimples Day Nursery, Dartford
  • Case Study: Little Explorers Day Nursery, Rochester
  • Article: Learning Away
  • Event Offer
  • Case Study: Farley Nursery School, Wiltshire

Latest News

  • NEW Outdoor Play Development Wheel
  • NEW DVD’s: Outdoor Play, Learning and Development
  • NEW REPORT!!! Outdoor Environment and Natural Childhood
  • Woodland Play Booklet

RSS Learning Outside the Classroom

  • Educational Visits: Policy Review Workshop
    This course is a must for those involved in planned visits in the UK or overseas. Spread over two days, it […]
  • Off-site Safety Management Training
    This course is a must for those involved in planned visits in the UK or overseas. Over two days, the course offers […]
  • Update Conference: Health and Safety in Expeditions, Fieldwork and Adventure Travel
    A one-day conference to provide an overview and discussion of changes in guidance to promoting safety in adventurous activities, fieldwork and expeditions […]

RSS Nursery World magazine

  • Cameron says coalition will find 'a way forward' on childcare ratios
    Early years organisations have welcomed David Cameron's intervention in the on-going row over plans to increase the number of children nurseries and childminders can care for, but urged the Government to take decisive action. […]
  • Government austerity measures could increase child poverty, warn doctors
    The UK is failing its most vulnerable children and any improvements in tackling child poverty are in danger of being eroded by Government welfare policies, doctors' leaders have warned. […]
  • Ofsted figures show drop in childminders
    There are more than 1,000 fewer childminders registered with Ofsted than there were six months ago, and the number of places has also fallen slightly, according to the latest figures released by the inspectorate. […]

Outdoor Matters!

...and all young children deserve daily access to a high quality early years curriculum delivered in this unique and special environment by knowledgeable, enthusiastic and playful practitioners!

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