Our children have the opportunity to access their outdoor play area in all weathers and during group time we go for a walk in our local community. To ensure they are prepared for the cold weather, please provide hat and gloves for your child and leave inside their backpack for easy access when they are getting dressed themselves ready to go out.
If you have any spare hats and gloves you no longer use please recycle by donating them to nursery. We try to have a spare supply for children who have forgotten to bring them. Thank you for your support.
Our School/Nursery PSA have kindly purchased waterproofs for the children to wear when playing outdoors. This was a much needed resource for the children’s outdoor play, which we are very grateful for.
To celebrate and put the waterproofs to good use, we will be arranging a ‘Welly Walk’ in the community with the children. More details to follow soon.
As stated in Care Inspectorate ‘My World Outdoors’ 2016 publication
‘There is a growing body of research that shows that young children’s access to nature and outdoor play is positively associated with improved self-esteem, physical health, development of language skills and disposition to learning’ (Davy, 2009 (57))
