Nursery World - Outdoors: On ice

Being outside when it is snowy or icy provides wonderful experiential learning, Nicole Weinstein discovers on the Isle of Wight

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The very essence of feeling the cold, what happens when you tread on ice or walk through frosty grass simply can’t be learnt any other way than by direct experience. Which is why Little Larks, an outdoor family provision for accompanied children from nought to five years, embraces this season.

Forest School leader and outdoor learning consultant Kathy Grogan, who spent 11 years on behalf of the local Wildlife Trust running weekly woodland and coastal learning sessions for under-fives on the Isle of Wight, launched Kathy Grogan Learning Wild, which includes Little Larks forest school group, earlier this year.

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