Collaboration

Outdoors is Plan A: Taking Learning Outside During Pandemic Times

Collaboration, Environment and Design, Guest post, Resources / Leave a Comment / By / March 19, 2021

We were greatly looking forward to Nancy Striniste’s in-person presentation as our international speaker for the 3rd Early Childhood Outdoors professional gathering last March – but of course her visit to the UK had to be postponed.  Based in Arlington, Virginia (USA), Nancy is an imaginative landscape designer who specialises in creating nature-rich outdoor spaces …

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Where Are The Babies? webinar registration now open!

Collaboration, Events, Research / Leave a Comment / By / January 28, 2021

It is with great pleasure that I’m able to announce that our long awaited research seminar Where Are The Babies? Exploring outdoor provision for children from birth to two, organised in collaboration with The Froebel Trust, will be going ahead as a free Froebel Trust hosted webinar on Saturday 20th March 2021, from 10am to 1pm. …

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Celebration of the year that’s passed and optimism for the year ahead!

Collaboration, ECO updates and news / Leave a Comment / By / January 6, 2021

Despite the limitations on in-person gatherings and face-to-face events since March last year, members of the Early Childhood Outdoors meshwork have clearly been beavering away on our individual and collective missions.  Both as individuals, settings or organisations and through working collaboratively, we have stuck to our united vision of more children thriving outdoors, more often …

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Rain makes play for toddlers – exploring water in its natural habitat!

Collaboration, Videos from Siren / Leave a Comment / By / October 28, 2020

Early Childhood Outdoors has been collaborating with Siren Films for some time, supporting development of their Early Years Clip Library as a way of making the most of the extensive, high quality observational material on child development they have created over many years.  So it was wonderful to hear the great news that the Clip …

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Outdoor play books now all available in one place!

Book Recommendations, Collaboration, ECO updates and news, Resources / Leave a Comment / By / October 1, 2020

A marvellous collaborationA bespoke online bookstore for almost all of the books for adults on Outdoor Play published in the UK (and some from beyond) is now available, thanks to a great collaboration between Early Childhood Outdoors and Richard Myers at Books Education. Richard has been providing a fantastic range of books on all aspects of …

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Children Need Nature Now

Advocacy, Collaboration, Guest post / 2 Comments / By / September 24, 2020

Early Childhood Outdoors is always looking to collaborate with others who share the mission for all children to spend more and better quality time in the outdoors with nature, and we recognise a strong idea for doing this when we see one: “During a meeting early in lockdown volunteer directors at the Forest School Association (FSA) were …

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Toddlers thrive outdoors too!

Collaboration, Videos from Siren / Leave a Comment / By / September 17, 2020

Early Childhood Outdoors seeks to make links and collaborate with organisations and companies sharing the mission to increase the amount and quality of outdoor experience children from birth to seven have in their daily lives.  Through liaising with a wide range of ‘collaborators’ our aim is to enhance each other’s work, enabling and supporting however we …

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Babies Thrive Outdoors!

Collaboration, Videos from Siren / Leave a Comment / By / September 17, 2020

Early Childhood Outdoors seeks to make links and collaborate with organisations and companies sharing the mission to increase the amount and quality of outdoor experience children from birth to seven have in their daily lives. Through liaising with a wide range of ‘collaborators’ our aim is to enhance each other’s work, enabling and supporting however …

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