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Building Your Curriculum: In the Community - Just do it!

Anne O’Connor explains why visiting local spaces is important – and how to navigate doing so in the wake of lockdown

In these difficult times, it is hard to imagine children out and about freely exploring their neighbourhood, interacting happily with people of all ages and making an impact on their local community. But, living as I do close to our local park, I was privileged every day during the lockdown period to see passing by my window children of all ages – bobbing alongside their parents, scooting on their scooters, being carried on shoulders and pushed in prams and buggies. All on their way for their daily exercise and, no doubt, a break for their parents from being indoors all day with them.

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