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Essential Resources: Storage - What’s in store?

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With children likely to be spending more time outside this winter, what do settings need to consider when it comes to storage and transporting resources, asks Nicole Weinstein
N Family Club’s setting in Brixton, South London, has a well-appointed outdoors space
N Family Club’s setting in Brixton, South London, has a well-appointed outdoors space

Moving resources from indoors to out and organising effective outdoor storage solutions has become ever-more important in the past few months in order to keep settings as Covid-safe as possible.

With children likely to be spending more time outdoors, practitioners need clever solutions to storing resources such as loose parts and gardening equipment – particularly ones that don’t put the onus on them to pack it all up at the end of the day.

Julie Mountain, director of Play Learning Life, says, ‘Whatever settings decide to do with storage, one of the most important things to emphasise is that it needs to go hand in hand with educating the children on taking resources out – and putting them back in their place.

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