Do you wake up on cold, grey mornings thinking about all the wonderful outdoor adventures you are going to have with the children in your care? Or are you praying that it is not your turn to go outside today - feeling cold and miserable at the mere thought of a morning of outdoor play? Well, let's face it. It is winter time and the British climate is neither predictable nor always the most friendly - particularly if we are not properly prepared to enjoy it.
At Learning Through Landscapes we know, through our work with hundreds of settings, that the attitude of the staff makes all the difference to the quality of outdoor experience children have in their setting. 'Mug-huggers' is a term we have coined to refer to staff who cling to their mugs of coffee when they go out with the children in the morning. If they don't have mugs, their body language still says clearly that this is not where they want to be - hunched up, unhappy looking, and uncommunicative with the children.
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