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'There's a growing awareness that for the good of their health, children need to be out and about more, with their friends, exploring the outdoor world in their own way.' - Nicola Butler, Director of the Free Play Network.
This book "Healthy, Active and Outside!: Running an Outdoors Programme in the Early Years" gives a full programme of outdoor physical activities for youth to enjoy.
It is widely acknowledged that children today do not get outdoors often enough and there are serious concerns about children's activity levels and rising associated behavioural, mental and health problems. With such structured and technology-driven lives, it is easy for young children to stay indoors, play on computers and not socialise with other children in a healthy and active way. This book not only supports 'playing out' as an integral part of children's natural growth and development, but also provides early years workers with a full programme of outdoor physical activities to promote physical, social and behavioural skills. This book is a guidebook to setting up an outdoor physical activity programme in any early years setting. The book focuses on how getting outdoors and taking part in physical activities will provide children with positive fun experiences to enhance their general learning and development. The programme can be adapted to suit any timescale - from a whole term to one or two days. Key features include showing practitioners: how to make the most of their outdoor area for all children; step by step explanations to the outdoor activities; how to engage participants (including parents); how to set up and plan activities ideas for group and individual assessment; how to carry out risk assessments; and, how an outdoors programme can change children's lives for the better.
Outdoor physical activity intervention is an important area. Many early years settings are becoming aware of the value of outdoor learning and are seeking to increase their outdoors provision. They are always eager to hear new ideas and ways of working outside. Early years practitioners are beginning to use outdoor activity programmes but many settings would welcome further ideas and information on how to extend their outdoors provision. Using the outdoor environment will be of particular interest to those adults who work in school holiday clubs and after school clubs and the book will provide a valuable reference for those who work in extended schools. This book appears to be a very practical resource which links theory clearly with practice. The step-by-step structure, coupled with the practical resources in chapter 10 will prove to be a useful, motivating and easy to use format for all early years practitioners. All the chapters sound interesting and necessary, and the material is adaptable and flexible.
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