{"id":4937,"date":"2020-05-21T13:22:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T13:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/sunnysideprimary\/?page_id=4937"},"modified":"2021-05-18T14:08:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:08:54","slug":"outdoor-learning-under-development","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/sunnysideprimary\/nursery\/curriculum\/outdoor-learning-under-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Sunnyside ELC, we take pride in promoting outdoor learning, ensuring children have opportunities of accessing the great outdoors on a daily basis. Children access outdoors in all weathers, which allows interests to be explored and discovering their world around them.<\/p>\n

Building on what our children already know and extending their learning first hand through a variety of learning experiences and activities such as mud kitchen, ball skills, role play, numeracy, literacy skills, gardening, loose parts play promoting children\u2019s curiosity, imagination, problem solving skills, and also opportunities and ability to manage risk in a safe environment. Sometimes we are go out on adventures exploring our local community e.g. library, shops, train station, local woodland, parks etc.<\/p>\n

More importantly however, there is strong and compelling evidence that playing and learning outdoors has many benefits for children:<\/p>\n