Outdoor Play at Claylands Nursery

Outdoor play is central to early development. Exploring, risk taking, fine and gross motor skills development, and indeed the majority of cognitive development, is best learned outdoors. Children need spaces large enough to run, jump, shout, hide, explore freely, have free access to sand, mud, water, freedom to explore – and Claylands Nursery is unique in providing such a large, safe, natural learning environment. Indeed, over the years, research has proved time and again that we are doing all the right things. We will never have artificial grass! Or over- structured learning environments which benefit adults rather than children.