Professor Jan White considers how to get children and staff outdoors and back inside again with ease

A number of core organisational issues make all the difference to how well outdoor provision works for everyone on a daily basis throughout the year. Paying attention to these ‘12 Keys to Unlocking Learning Outdoors’ and working on them as a team over time gradually unlocks the wonderful potential of the outdoors as an enjoyable, effective and empowering environment for learning in the early years.

KEY 4: SUPPORTING LINKAGE AND MOVEMENT BETWEEN INDOORS AND OUTDOORS

WHY IS THIS ISSUE KEY TO UNLOCKING THE OUTDOORS?

When access from the indoors to the outdoors is difficult then getting outdoors in the first place will be limiting the use and enjoyment of being outside, and certainly reducing how much of its potential is being captured.

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