To reflect upon the spaces provided in the outdoor environment in your setting

Aim

To reflect upon the spaces provided in the outdoor environment in your setting.

Evidence and Reflection

Reflect on Titman’s four places children look for in the outdoor environment: a place for doing; a place for thinking; a place for feeling and a place for being themselves. Consider whether the outdoor environment in your setting provides these spaces.

Extension

Consider whether the environment could be adapted to provide these places and how children could be involved in their design.

More in this chapter

• To reflect upon how your values impact upon the provision the children in your care receive
• To work with children in your setting to investigate how they feel about an aspect of your environme
• To reflect upon the spaces provided within the indoor environment in your setting
• To reflect upon how you plan the learning environment
• To plan resources to support specific learning activities
• To produce a room plan
• To monitor an individual child to estimate active learning time
• To consider the opportunities the children in your care have to explore the outdoors
• To review your own practice in relation to digital technologies