Way back in 1997, Robin Moore and Herb Wong wrote a book documenting the incredible transformation of an American school’s grounds from an exposed asphalt desert into a nature-filled paradise of happiness, wellbeing and highly motivated learning – called Natural Learning: the life history of an environmental schoolyard and subtitled ‘creating environments for rediscovering nature’s way …
With this week’s post, we are excited to announce the official launch of our new Early Childhood Outdoors Vimeo channel! Over the coming year, we hope to add visual material so that we have a lively companion for this more word-oriented blog, for celebrating, sharing and motivating across the ECO meshwork. We are especially looking …
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The RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch is just around the corner, taking place at any time between 29th and 31st of January, and I know that many early years settings are preparing to take part – adding to over 40 years of data gathering. Clearly, it’s a great springboard too for bringing everyone’s attention to the …
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 …
This week I read an excellent post by Elaine Bennett, Sit still, be quiet – and mind the gap! on the Right From the Start website and found myself equally perturbed by the approach described of the Nuffield Early Language Intervention programme that is being heavily funded by the Government for children in Reception. Everything …
