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精细运动和大肌肉运动是幼儿园阶段的孩子需要重点训练的能力，教室内的活动可以帮助孩子们训练精细运动能力，户外活动可以训练孩子的大肌肉运动能力。杭州惠立幼儿园提供充裕的户外活动场地、科学设计的教学设施、丰富多彩的户外课程在潜移默化中助力儿童锻炼体能、构建自信，实现全面发展，成长为具备积极、慎思、独立、个性、包容的惠立特质的孩子。 

 今天，惠立幼儿园的户外课程带头人Pauline老师将为我们详细介绍惠立户外教育的理念、设计与意义，让我们来一探究竟吧。 

在杭州惠立幼儿园的我们无疑是幸运的，因为这里拥有世界一流的室内教学设施，教室里的每一处环境创设都承载着深远的教育意义，让每一处空间都成为让孩子们去探索、去挑战的地方。从室内到公共区的过渡区域也延续着这样的理念，让孩子们不论身在哪里，都能漫步在富有意义的启发式学习环境中，思考着、探索着。更难能可贵的是，室外宽敞无比的户外空间也让孩子们延续着学习的快乐。 

幼儿园的户外区域根据儿童的特点专门设计，以开放式的游戏为导向，激发孩子们发挥想象力，寻找新的方法来与周围环境、朋友、老师、大自然展开互动、从中学习。许多研究都已证实户外学习对于学龄前儿童的成长及未来的在校学业表现有着积极的促进作用。 

在杭州惠立幼儿园，我们引导孩子正确开展户外探索，赋予孩子们不可或缺的想象力和创造力、团队精神和协作能力，让孩子们自如地拥抱多样化的精彩世界。在户外活动中，孩子们的身心得到发展，情感得到建设；在呼吸户外新鲜的空气的同时，他们唤醒蕴藏在体内的活力，树立起“有志者、事竟成”的信念，锻炼着持之以恒的毅力，在老师的支持下勇敢地开展可控范围内的探索，成就真正的自我。我们相信，在杭州惠立幼儿园，我们培养的是下一代的创新家、发明家、创造者和领导者。

无论是课堂内还是通过户外学习，孩子们都会用勇气拥抱挑战。不论天气好坏，我们都会努力保证孩子们有一定的户外活动时间。挪威有一则谚语：“Det finnes ikke dårlig vær, bare dårlig klær!” 这句话的意思是 “没有不好的天气，只有不合适的着装”，对孩子们的户外学习很有启发。 

雨雪天的杭州惠立幼儿园里，也有孩子们在户外忙碌的身影：他们在奔跑着，欢笑着，探索着，学习着，不惧风霜，不畏雨雪。假如闭门不出，孩子们怎能感受到雨的气息和雨水滴落在脸上的奇妙感觉呢？该如何去发现人们赖以生存的树木花草是怎样像我们一样呼吸、饮水的呢？要如何感受和朋友踩泥泞水坑的酣畅淋漓呢？要怎样和小伙伴和老师一起打雪仗呢？ 

这些自然是不可能在室内实现的，但正是这些生活中不可或缺的经历塑造着孩子们的成长轨迹与人格，让孩子们变得坚毅果敢，驱使着孩子们不断地开动脑筋、积极提问，再思考、再提问，实现良性循环。传说中，著名科学家艾萨克·牛顿正是在户外看到苹果落下的。假如他当时是待在室内，恐怕我们今天的生活便会大有不同。 

我们致力于打造全天候幼儿园，在一如既往地保持高水准室内环境创设的同时，将独特的惠立教学理念融入其中，将教室里的部分学习区域和模块沿用至户外活动、数学、读写能力、科学知识、社交和角色扮演等。世界卫生组织（WHO）在2019年曾倡议：学龄前的孩子每天应参加各种体育活动至少180分钟（约3小时），其中60分钟为中等强度的户外活动。从这组数据中，我们可以看到户外活动的重要性。

让孩子们保持强健的体格、健康的身心、进取的态度、旺盛的求知欲、强烈的好奇心和积极的人生观，是我们一如既往追求的目标。无论是室内还是户外，一切为了孩子是我们坚定不移的理念。我们将砥砺前行，不忘初心。 

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Fine motor skills and gross motor skills are the focus of the physical exercises for early years children. While indoor activities support the improvement of the former, outdoor activities support the latter. Through our specially designed outdoor spaces and programmes at Huili Nursery Hangzhou, pupils can develop physical strength and coordination, build confidence in facing new challenges and explore new avenues of discovery, while also enjoying themselves in the process. We hope to support the children to grow into the best versions of themselves, inspired, intellectual, individual, independent and inclusive. 

Let us follow the lead of Greg Pauline, our outdoor education coordinator, to find out more about the philosophy, design and purpose of our outdoor learning at Huili Nursery Hangzhou.  

At Huili nursery, we are fortunate to have arguably some of the finest indoor facilities in the world. Each classroom is organised with purposeful learning opportunities seamlessly divided into areas that engage and challenge our pupils. The transitional indoor communal spaces continue this theme with meaningful learning zones that encourage exploration and questioning wherever you wander. In Huili, this learning continues the moment we step outside into our huge outdoor exploration area. 

Our playground is purposely designed to initiate open-ended learning and allow our children to expand their imaginations and discover new ways to interact with their surroundings, their friends and teachers, and nature itself. The importance of outside learning is well documented, as is the effect that outdoor exposure will have on academic achievement later in school.  

Properly guided outdoor exploration, as we have at Huili, prepares our children for a world of diverse environments, for a world that requires imagination and innovation, and for a world that needs more teamwork and positive collaboration. But, of course, it’s not just our minds that benefit from being outdoors; we need to be outside to thrive physically and emotionally, to stretch ourselves and to push further and discover that we can do whatever it is we set our minds to, that we can persevere and take manageable, guided risks that build us into the people that we are destined to become. Here in Huili, we are helping to guide the next generation of innovators, inventors, creators, and leaders.  

We must challenge ourselves, and this is true both for classroom education and learning outside, and that means even if the weather is not quite perfect (rain or snow), we must still have outdoor time. In Norway there is a saying, ‘Det finnes ikke dårlig vær, bare dårlig klær. This translates to ‘There is no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothing.’  

At Huili, when it is raining (or snowing), you will still find us all outside, and we will still be running, laughing, discovering and learning. How is it possible to learn about how the rain smells and how it feels on your face when you are in a classroom? How can we understand how the trees and plants we rely on exist, breathe and drink just as we do? Have you ever tried to jump in muddy puddles with your friends inside a warm, dry classroom? Have you ever teamed up with your classmates and had a snowball fight with your teachers indoors?  

It is impossible. But these are all essential experiences that make us who we are. They make us resilient; they make us think and ask questions that lead to more questions that eventually lead to answers that begin the entire process again. Perhaps it is only a story, but the tale goes that the brilliant scientist Isaac Newton was outside under a tree when he watched that apple fall. We would live in a vastly different world if he stayed indoors.  

As we continue to strive to move towards becoming an all-weather nursery, we will keep on with the excellent work we do inside our amazing classrooms and take our unique Huili learning concepts of distinct learning areas from our classrooms and reflect this in our outdoor provisions, mathematics, literacy, science, small-world, and role play which will sit alongside larger more permanent provisions that encourage gross-motor skills and fit in with the current recommendations of the World Health Organisation (WHO) that suggest that children of nursery age should take part in a variety of physical activities for at least 180 minutes (about 3 hours) each day with 60 minutes of which being moderate to vigorous intensity (WHO, 2019). We strive for healthy, fit, and active children with inquisitive minds eager to learn and have a positive outlook on life. 

After all, it is in our shared vision that our children are at the heart of everything we do, indoors and out.