Ideas for physically active mark-making outdoors

Are school ponds making a comeback? In recent months I've visited several schools with sadly unloved ponds, yet each school expresses l

Review of Juliet Robertson's first book, Dirty Teaching.

UPDATE MARCH 2019 Do your school grounds do their bit to improve outcomes for children? A generous grant from the Ernest Cook Trust allowed us to research, develop and pilot this short course, one of three to examine the potential of school grounds to enrich specific curriculum areas. “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” -
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Stop Press - Play Learning Life's obsession with sticks goes global (sort of): we were delighted to be asked to write about our (somewhat unhealthy) obsession with sticks, in this week’s Nursery World magazine. Our focus was on how practitioners can make the most of this free and fabulous resource to enrich the early years curriculum. We’ve touched on physical development of course (observing children becoming confident handling a stick that’s taller than they are is always