Nursery World - Outdoors: key 5

In the latest part of her series on unlocking the potential of the outdoors, Professor Jan White looks at storing resources

Well-organised storage means children can choose resources for themselves and the equipment will be used more

Making outdoor equipment easily accessible, as you would do indoors, enables children to have greater choice and control over what they do during their time spent outside. How to do this is the key focus of this article.

KEY 5: STORAGE AND ORGANISATION

WHY IS THIS ISSUE KEY TO UNLOCKING THE OUTDOORS?

Ample, well-arranged storage outdoors is critical to effective and frequent use of the outdoors as a learning environment. This is perhaps the easiest Key to start with, and the one that can make the most immediate difference.

So often, sheds are out of the way, or not even in the outdoor space, meaning that resources must be carried to and fro by practitioners – and are therefore less used than they might be. Often too, outdoor sheds are partly filled with excess indoor equipment, taking up valuable space and making the storage difficult to use.

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