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I am delighted to be part of the Early Years and Childcare Publications Partnership that develops publications for professional organisations, practitioners and parents/carers. Together we have been developing an Outdoor Play Development Wheel that suggests low cost ideas and experiences to do with children at each stage of their development from birth to five years old. …

  Recently I have been working with Nursery World to create two brand new, limited edition DVD box sets featuring the most inspirational training ideas for outdoor play, learning and development in the early years sector. Bursting with creative thinking and fresh insights, these DVDs are the perfect starting point if you are thinking about improving the …

These two reports highlight the negative impact that the limited opportunities for outdoor play experiences is having on today’s children. Click here to read more and download the reports.

Congratulations to Grounds for Learning (Learning through Landscapes in Scotland)  Their booklet on Woodland Play clearly sets out the value and benefits of the natural woodland environment on children’s play, learning and development.  Although the booklet shares the outcomes from a project with Scottish Primary Schools it has many transferable messages that will resonate with all types …

Congratulations to the twelve students at Beechgrove Academy -their Young Enterprise business initiative Link2Nature has won the Area, County and now the Southeast Regional Finals. They are currently preparing for the UK National Finals to be held on 1st-3rd July 2012 where they will compete against  12 other teams. In addition to the nature baskets they …

Outdoor Matters is delighted to be working with Muddy Faces.  Muddy faces provides Outdoor and Forest School equipment and is kindly supplying lots of great den making resources for the Outdoor Matters Den Building workshop at the Nursery Show in Bournemouth on 27th and 28th April -come and find us there! To read more about …

Outdoor Matters was delighted to be asked to contribute to a recent Nursery World article on gardening.  Outdoor Matters provided tips, equipment recommendations, photographs and a case study.  To read the Nursery World article click on the link below. NW Article EE Gardening To read the full case study go to Priory Infants Case Study

The revised EYFS still includes the message that the outdoor environment matters! However the government has missed an opportunity to remove the reference to ‘unsafe weather’ in order to clarify the expectation that children will be outdoors all year round -whatever the weather!

The revised EYFS still includes the message that the outdoor environment matters! However the government has missed an opportunity to remove the reference to ‘unsafe weather’ in order to clarify the expectation that children will be outdoors all years round -whatever the weather! Outdoor Matters believes that providing children are appropriately clothed they should be outdoors on a daily …

I am delighted to have been introduced to Cosy -a charitable organisation dedicated to helping disadvantaged children and the organisations who are working with them.  The Cosy team have fingers in lots of pies and I am looking forward to meeting up with Peter Ellse next term and seeing how Cosy in the Community has …