Description
Each chapter of this book examines an aspect of good practice and identifies key statements to consider as a framework for outdoor play. It also identifies aspects that are used for self-evaluation by practitioners, to help centres create policies and practice that follows national vision for outdoor play.
“Whatever your expertise in Early Years outdoor practice, this book will help you. For those who find excuses that block progress in developing a good learning environment that links with indoors, this book will demolish the negative attitudes. It is full of ideas to motivate and to allow the practitioner’s own imagination to take flight – I was particularly keen on the section where we were encouraged to be a dung beetle! But high-quality outdoor play does not come without rigorous planning and skilled adult interactions with children. This book argues strongly for practitioners to put in place all the conditions that will make outdoor learning enjoyable and exciting for children and adults alike.
The title alone will ensure that the book will make a big splash with everyone who reads it!”
-Marjorie Ouvry, Consultant in Early Years Education.