100 Ideas for Early Years Practitioners: Outdoor Play

Author:   Julie Mountain
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9781472911032


Pages:   144
Publication Date:   07 May 2015
Format:   Paperback
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100 Ideas for Early Years Practitioners: Outdoor Play


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Children benefit hugely from regular, frequent and progressive outdoor play, and it should therefore be an integral part of their early education. This addition to the 100 ideas series offers early years practitioners easy-to-implement outdoor play activities and practical advice on managing and evaluating your provision. Dip in and out of the ideas which range in complexity, from 'getting started' activities for practitioners who are inexperienced or less confident about outdoor play, to more challenging strategies for those who have used Forest School ideas. Julie Mountain's wealth of knowledge and abundance of creativity and enthusiasm shines through with activities involving mark making, storytelling, communicating, exploration, maths and mud! In addition, there are guest ideas from outdoor play experts Kierna Corr, Felicity Robinson, Lesley Romanoff, Juliet Robertson, Lily Horseman and Mary Jackson and an extensive further reading section. The ideas in this book will inspire you to get outside and make the most of your outdoor space however big or small it is and whatever the weather decides to throw at you! INCLUDES Teaching tips - Taking it further ideas - Ideas for involving parents - Bonus ideas

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Author:   Julie Mountain
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Education
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.158kg
ISBN:  

9781472911032


ISBN 10:   1472911032
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   07 May 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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...offer something for all levels of outdoor play. The author's enthusiasm shines through and will encourage teachers to try out the ideas. -- Sarah Brew www.parentsintouch.co.uk


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Julie Mountain has worked in schools and early years outdoor play projects for over 20 years. She is Operations Director at Play Learning Life (www.playlearninglife.org.uk), a not-for-profit social enterprise that supports educational communities to exploit the potential of outdoors for learning and play. She is responsible for all the Trust’s projects, programmes, CPD and research. This includes dozens of early years and primary programmes, workshops and conferences. She has written articles for many early years publications including Nursery World Magazine and Motherhood Magazine and blogs extensively. Julie Mountain is also the author of the Little book of Free and Found.

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