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The Benefits of Climbing for Children

Climbing is a physically engaging and mentally stimulating activity that offers loads of different benefits for children's development, as well as benefiting their overall wellbeing. From enhancing physical strength and...
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Ways to encourage outdoor learning

Outdoor learning comes with a whole host of different benefits, from teaching children about nature and encouraging them to take an interest in the environment, to promoting wellbeing and improving...
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Our Favourite Playground Shelters and Canopies

Come rain or shine, it’s really important that children are able to play outside. After being cooped up in a classroom, children need the opportunity to run around outside, breathe...
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How to make a playground wheelchair accessible

Accessibility is all about making things usable for as many people as possible. In a playground setting, it’s ensuring that all children can have a fun and enjoyable time, regardless...
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Our favourite pieces of agility playground equipment

If you’ve ever taken a child to a playground, the chances are that they make a beeline straight for the climbing frame or jungle gym! Agility playground equipment is any...
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Why your school should invest in Sleeper Planters

The benefits of gardening are manifold, on both our mental and physical sense of well-being. Alongside the proven benefits that simply being outside has on young people’s mental health, This...
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The benefits of climbing frames for children

We all know the benefits of outdoor play versus sitting kids in front of screens inside, but it is surprising just how far-reaching those positive outcomes are. Climbing frames are...
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Our favourite pieces of outdoor learning equipment

‘Outdoor learning’ is such an umbrella term, used for all sorts of situations around being with kids, outside! Whether you’re trying to take a more traditional classroom-style learning environment into...
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Should outdoor learning be part of the curriculum?

We all have a vague sense that children should be outside; we’ve all been herded outdoors as children, and as adults have felt creeping unease about parking children in front...
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What are the essentials for an outdoor classroom?

All over the UK, more and more schools are realising the benefits of outdoor learning and are moving some of their classes outside into purpose-built outdoor classrooms. Outdoor learning is...