From making dens and flying kites, to constructing waterways, we know that children thrive in the outdoors across the whole year. A well-planned outdoor area is a powerful learning environment for young children and should provide opportunities where they can develop and apply their existing skills and knowledge across all areas of the curriculum.

Drawing on examples of outstanding practice, this inspiring and practical course will enable you to optimise the quality of learning in the early years within your outside environment, develop a deeper understanding of how the characteristics of effective learning as well as critical skills such as language for thinking, literacy and maths can be effectively embedded and extended outdoors.

Benefits

• Gain a deeper understanding of the potential of outdoor learning across the year.
• Clarity of how interpret pedagogical practice outdoors.
• Practical solutions for developing your outdoors.

This workshop will focus on how to use continuous provision effectively to support children’s self-initiated learning to embed and extend learning while meeting the needs of the whole curriculum and ensuring appropriate challenge and progression. Revisit the principles behind effective continuous provision, consider a fresh perspective and reflect on how to further develop your own enabling environment with added challenge.

To securely embed learning, research identifies that children benefit from a curriculum and provision that allows them to revisit taught experiences and provides rich opportunities for exploration and challenge. During this practical workshop delegates will develop an understanding of the ways in which continuous provision, classroom routines and incidental learning can all be used to support the demands of the KS1 curriculum.

Benefits

• An opportunity to consider how to closely link continuous provision to KS1 expectations
• Ideas for curriculum links in all aspects of classroom life
• Practical approaches to support and develop current practice.