Muddy Bunnies Outdoor Learning
Muddy Bunnies aims to provide a high quality, fun and exciting learning experience, where children play. A place for growing minds to develop, learn new skills and form the building blocks for future life and successes – all in the natural dynamic outdoor environment.
Our Outdoor Learning offers a weekly session for children aged 2 years to school age, term time only throughout the year. Our sessions are held on alternate Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.
What is Outdoor Learning?
Outdoor Learning provides hands on learning experiences which help to develop confidence through progression, self-esteem, resilience, independence and creativity.
This is done through flexible planning, where children are encouraged to then direct their own learning as a catalyst from the leader. Staff then further support and ‘scaffold’ the children’s learning helping to further increase positive outcomes.
Activities
Children at Muddy Bunnies participate in a wide variety of fun and exciting activities. These can include digging, exploring, treasure hunts, map making and reading, den building, and tree climbing in the ‘wild’ yet controlled woodland, where they are involved in learning to assess risk and make sensible decisions. The activities are all linked through the four main principles of the Early Years Foundation Stage:
A UNIQUE CHILD – that every child is a competent learner from birth who can be resilient, capable, confident and self assured.
POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS – Children learn to be strong and independent from a base of loving and secure relationships with parents and/or a key person
ENABLING ENVIRONMENT – The environment (the woodland) plays a key role in supporting and extending children’s development and learning.
LEARNING AND DEVELOPING – Children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates and all areas of learning and development are equally important.
Outdoor Learning also supports both the prime and specific areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
The sessions run on alternate Wednesday and Thursday afternoons from 1.20pm till 2.50pm (the dates will be confirmed at the start of each term). Sessions are for all children who attend these afternoon sessions and suitable clothing must be worn.
Parents will be able to claim these sessions as part of their child’s Free Entitlement if this is how they pay for the session normally, otherwise the cost will be £25.50.
If you would like more information, Jo and Vicky are available to answer your questions and share this passion with you all.