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The Good School Playground Guide

This guide highlights the possibilities and priorities when designing and improving school grounds for play and learning. Whatever your budget or scale of ambition, this guide will help you develop outdoor spaces which will help make your school the best place to grow up in.

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Learning through Landscapes

Green Tree Schools Award

This is a free Award, aimed at engaging schools with woods and trees. The Award has links to the curriculum and activities and challenges aimed at helping children to understand the importance of trees and nature.

Nature Play - maintenance guide

This resource aims to support those professionals responsible for developing, delivering and maintaining more innovative natural play spaces.

Use your senses

Learning outdoors offers so many new and exciting opportunities for pupils and can be even more powerful when teachers explore how to include the five senses in key learning activities. This article explores some ways in which the senses can be incorporated into lessons, both in and out of the classroom.