Curriculum
Support
How do young children learn?
When planning for outdoor opportunities and
experiences for your children, it is important to bear
in mind how young children learn.
What learning
environments work best for young children? What
experiences...
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Curriculum
Support
How do young children learn?
When planning for outdoor opportunities and
experiences for your children, it is important to bear
in mind how young children learn.
What learning
environments work best for young children? What
experiences will ensure that learning will be
satisfying and successful for them?
In this Curriculum Support, we will look at some of
these key areas.
The outdoors offers some of the
things young children need for learning such as
room for movement and ample opportunity for
hands-on activity.
Think about providing small, quiet
places, outside as well as indoors.
In your short,
medium or long term planning include these elements
and features to create the conditions young children
need to thrive best in their learning and development.
Many of these elements interact and strong experiences
with a lasting impact can be planned in quite simple
ways.
The best provision links experiences across the
indoor and outdoor environments, making use of wh
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