Here we have listed the resources and guidance for you to read about outdoor spaces please share any good resources you know about at playgrounds@edinburgh.gov.uk.
Practical guidance for the design of your outdoor space
- Learning through landscapes: the good school playground guide
- Schools for the Future: Designing School Grounds
- Out to Play: Inspiring Scotland, Care Inspectorate, Scottish Government
Practical guidance for play
- Play Strategy for Scotland: Our Action Plan from the Scottish Government
- Loose Parts Play: Inspiring Scotland
- Making a Mud Kitchen: Muddyfaces
Practical guidance for outdoor learning
Practical guidance for open grounds
Guidance for learning outdoors
- Curriculum for Excellence through outdoor learning
- Woods for Learning: Forestry Commission, Scottish Government
- Education Scotland: Outdoor Learning
- Education Scotland: Building your Curriculum: Outside and In
- How Good is Our School 4
- Nature Play and Learning Places, Robin C. Moore
- General Teaching Council Scotland – The Standards for Registration
- Education Scotland: Vision 2030+ Concluding Report of The Learning for Sustainability National Implementation Group
- Learning for Sustainability
- Muddy Hands Report
Guidance for play outdoors
Guidance for wellbeing and the outdoors
Guidance for Early Years
- My World Outdoors: Care Inspectorate
- Space to Grow: Scottish Futures Trust, Care Inspectorate and Scottish Government
- Education Scotland: How good is our early learning and childcare?
- The Early Years Framework 2008: Scottish Government
- Pre-Birth to Three Positive Outcomes for Scotland’s Children and Families: Scottish Government
- Building the Ambition, National Practice Guidance on Early Learning and Childcare Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014: Scottish Government
Guidance for school ground design
- Building better schools: investing in Scotland’s future 2009
- Guidance for landowners opening grounds for learning: OWL Scotland
City of Edinburgh Council Strategy and Design Documents
- City of Edinburgh Council’s Outdoor Learning Strategy
- City of Edinburgh Play Strategy
- Edinburgh Design Guidance
- Open Space 2021: Edinburgh’s Open Space Strategy (2016)
- City of Edinburgh Council’s Play Area Action Plan 2011-2016
- Edinburgh Biodiversity Action Plan 2016-18
- City of Edinburgh Council’s Allotment Strategy 2017-2027
Research, Studies and Media
- Conserving Wonder with Sir David Attenborough
- Khan, M. (2017). Environment, engagement and education: investigating the relationship between primary school grounds and children’s learning: a case study from Bangladesh (Doctoral dissertation, University of Edinburgh)
- Research by Professor Stephen Heppell
- Outdoor Environments for Primary School Teaching and Learning: An Exploratory Study, Khan, Bell, Silveirinha de Oliveira, McGeown
- Universal Principles of Design: Savanna Preference
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