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May 2021
Last Updated: 20/05/2021
Brackenfield School in Harrogate opens new adventure play area
The school on Duchy Road's new outdoor learning area includes a 'garden centre', mud kitchen, and pebble pit to encourage open-air learning and exploring.
A Harrogate independent school has opened a new outdoor play area for nursery children to encourage open-air learning.
Brackenfield School's new facility includes a 'garden centre', mud kitchen and pebble pit complete with weighing scales and spades.
There is also a reading rainforest corner, where children can take their books outside with their friends and read while sitting on log stools.
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The area was designed to present children with challenges, adventures and opportunities for development, whilst interacting with the natural world around them.
Headmaster Joe Masterson said:
"Outdoor learning is one of the four areas of a powerful mission we use to focus our children’s achievements here at Brackenfield School.
"We strive to ensure that while revelling in technology as a means to excite, ignite and redefine learning, a strong sense of balance is also retained for our pupils towards human connection, nature and the outdoors."
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