Nursery World - Enabling Environments - Outdoors

See what the winners of Nursery World's Outdoor Challenge 2010, run in association with Learning through Landscapes, have set their sights on achieving with specialist support

FIRST PRIZE WINNER

Old Town Children's Centre, Poole, Dorset

Opened a year ago, the Centre serves one of the 30 per cent most deprived communities in the country, with large numbers of workless families in social housing and high-rise flats. Its outdoor area is used both by children at the Centre's early years setting and by families attending the Centre's various sessions.

Children's Centre teacher and early years consultant Clare Schmieder, who prepared the winning entry, says, 'I am passionate about narrowing the gap between the achievement of the bottom 20 per cent of children and the rest by using outdoor space to develop confidence, creativity, exploration and learning, through child-initiated play.'

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