Creating an enabling environment: Outdoors - Optimus …

The environment: Outdoors Optimus EducationEYFS Framework GuideCreating an enabling environment: Outdoors IntroductionAccess to a well-resourced, stimulating outdoor environment is now widely accepted as a fundamental right for babies, toddlers and pre-school children. The quality of the outdoor spaces available in early years settings has improved considerably over the last ten years, and in the new eyfs Framework Physical Development is identified as one of the prime areas of learning for all children, but particularly for the under threes. Being Outdoors has a positive impact on children s sense of well-being and helps all aspects of children s development. It offers opportunities for doing things in different ways and on different scales than when indoors.

These can be used as a basis for reviewing and reinvigorating a setting’s outdoor provision to make sure it complies with the new EYFS Framework. Young children should be outdoors as much as indoors and need a well designed, well organised, integrated indoor-outdoor environment, preferably with indoors and outdoors available simultaneously.

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