Our setting operates a free flow access to the outdoor area throughout the day, the outside door is open so the children can choose where they would like to play and come and go as they wish.

There are lots of real life experiences in our outdoor space, our polycrub is an amazing space for growing, planting, and understanding where our food comes from. We have nursery hens that the children look after, feeding them daily, cleaning their house, checking their water and playing with them in the garden.

The children have opportunities to explore the wider area outwit the Nursery garden and playpark, some of their favorite places to explore are the burn, the beach and the muddy puddle place!

There is substantial evidence about the benefits of taking learning outdoors. The impact of outdoor learning on children and young people’s health and wellbeing, their wider achievements, attainment and personal development is greatly enhanced.

Connections are made with the real world outside the classroom, helping to develop skills, knowledge and understanding in a meaningful context

Outdoor environments and surroundings act as a rich stimulus for creative thinking and learning. This offers opportunities for challenge, enquiry, critical thinking and reflection

Children and young people find that not everything outside matches the models or the textbooks. This does not mean that what they have found is ‘wrong’. Instead, it develops awareness of the world around them and can help to develop critical thinking skills

Children and young people can sometimes behave differently outdoors. Learning in an outdoor environment can provide a different learning experience for children, quiet pupils may speak more, others become calmer and more focused when outside, especially in a natural space

The multi-sensory experience outdoors helps children and young people to retain knowledge more effectively. There are opportunities for pupils to learn with their whole bodies on a large scale.