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Farm setting boosts children’s resilience

Award-winning childminding setting provides thrill-seeking outdoor adventures to foster children’s emotional resilience and improve their wellbeing.
Adventurous outdoor activities at Cheeky Cherubs Childcare encourage children to 'expand their boundaries by taking risks'. Picture: Cheeky Cherubs Childcare
Adventurous outdoor activities at Cheeky Cherubs Childcare encourage children to 'expand their boundaries by taking risks'. Picture: Cheeky Cherubs Childcare

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Climbing trees, sliding down mud mountains, jumping from high surfaces and playing out of adult sight are examples of some of the adventurous outdoor play activities that children at Cheeky Cherubs Childcare are exposed to on a daily basis.

The 20-place childminding setting, based on a working farm in a village in Leicestershire, has three outdoor areas: a front garden with a willow tunnel where children play-hide-and seek, a forest area with a firepit and rope swings that hang from the trees, and a free-flow purpose-build play area which extends from the indoor play room.

Each day after school the five- to 11-year-olds take a walk down the field to check on the crops, passing Pinky and Perky, the resident pigs on the way and often stopping to chat to Bobby the farmer, who hoots at them in his tractor.

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