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Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Up and away

A new climbing area is offering impressive challenge and variety, says King's Meadow Primary School's Sarah Obinna.

Our new climbing area is delighting the children and living up to our expectations by providing all the challenge and variety that we'd hoped for.

The climbing area is used by all the children but also forms part of the latest phase in our development of early years provision at King's Meadow Primary School, Bicester. In all the school has 370 children on its roll, with 80 of those in the Foundation Stage.

We started by refurbishing classrooms for our Foundation Stage unit. Next, we moved on to developing the outside area with the help of a local garden centre, creating some raised beds and setting about replacing our old climbing frame.

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