Outdoor Play and Learning (A note from Simon Natoli, Catholic Education Tasmania WHS Officer)

Catholic Education Tasmania supports schools in offering children creative play and learning within our outdoor spaces through our Outdoor Play and Learning Policy.

It is timely to restate some purposes of this policy, being:

• Support learning and creative play with reasonable levels of risk-taking.
• Offer age appropriate activities and items to encourage development of gross motor, collaboration and risk assessment skills.
• Enable children to extend their capabilities. Examples of potential activities with suitable risk controls include:
  • Loose parts imaginative play & building. e.g. Logs, sticks, milk crates, rocks, tyres, mud play, etc.
  • Limited tree climbing/play.
  • Approved items disassembled