Risk & Adventure in Early Years Outdoor Play
Learning from Forest Schools
- Sara Knight - Teacher and Forest School Leader
This book will give you the confidence to offer the children in your setting adventurous and challenging outdoor activities, as well as ways to utilise natural resources to their best advantage. There is clear, practical advice on what you need to do, which is underpinned by the theory that supports the benefits of this approach. Examples from settings are included, to illustrate best practice and to show how things can be achieved.
Issues considered include:
- being outside in 'bad' weather
- the importance of risk-taking
- the benefits of rough and tumble play
- observing and assessing children in this mode
- how these experiences improve children's learning
- explaining activities to parents, colleagues and managers
- ensuring health and safety requirements are met
- the role of the adult in facilitating these experiences.
Suitable for all students and practitioners working with young children from Birth to 8 , this book will not only give you ideas for outdoor play but also help you understand exactly what you are doing, why it is educationally sound and developmentally important for children, and where it connects with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) in England, the Foundation Phase (FP) in Wales and the Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland.
Sara Knight is an experienced early years educator and Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University. She is a trained Forest School practitioner and author of Forest Schools and Outdoor Learning in the Early Years.
This book is recommended as a support book for those student teachers wishing to explore the use of forest schools
Students have a growing interest in this area and found this totally relevant to their interests and underpinning knowledge of developments in outdoor play.
I have recommended this book not only as a lecturer but to a wide range of settings in my role as a standards and improvement officer for early years.
An excellent book
An important text for all those who work with children about challenging the risk of the outdoor environment. Useful for undergraduate and post graduate students and practitioners.
this text offers the reader support in bringing an international perspective on education into the UK
An excellent text exploring the contemporary issues of 'risk and adventure in the early years'. Extremely practical with guidance provided for further reading.
with todays risk this books outlines all risks that children may take whilst playing outdoors. i have put this on the reading list for the students and ordered copies for the library
A useful book, which will help students with background reading for their play modules.
Will add book to background reading list.
