Bring Wildlife into your teaching

Come and visit a woodland on a school trip. We can arrange a variety of educational experiences to suit your needs. Whether you want to achieve specific educational objectives or experiences or just want to reward your class with a fun day in the woods at the end of the year.

Check out our different woods.

We can create habitat at school to help tackle the wildlife crisis and create wild spaces for nature to thrive within your school grounds. We can design, create and potentially help with grant funding for your school.Would you like a story telling circle or outdoor classroom? Maybe a forest area with appropriate tree planting to allow den building or hammocks or a fire circle? How about creating areas to watch mason bees or bird feeding stations. We can create wild green areas even within urban areas that have little to no grounds.

Our expertise can create a forest school or outdoor area and integrate nature to the whole or part of your school grounds by the following process.

Visit your school and assess what you already have.

Create a design and plan to enhance your site and create and maintain appropriate habitat for learning with specific educational and wildlife objectives.

Seek FREE resources from organisations such as your local Community Forest, Wildlife Trusts, Woodland Trust etc. to achieve our plan. And then agree a cost to deliver other habitat creation - we can deliver low cost habitat as a teaching resource with big outcomes.

Deliver the plan -create Habitats and Link them to learning.

Train staff to use the created areas linked to their scheme of work and topics.

Bring us in for the day to deliver fun outdoor learning

We can lead a day of learning at school based on what you have even within schools with very little wildlife. We’ve delivered experiences such as Percy the Park Keeper, fairy tale hunts, den building, fire circle , Very Hungry Caterpillar, Gruffalo all incorporating learning about wildlife along the way.

Bring us in to create and maintain habitats such as woodland and open space

We can maintain your school site making wild areas usable and involve classes so children can be involved. We can create habitats such as tree planting and lead classes so children experience planting trees.

Tree planting and their maintenance is likely to be grant funded which with some ingenuity link with learning and resource generation for example hand weeding of long grass lends its self to making rope or grass weaving, screefing (removing grass layer) to reduce competition for planted trees can be used to create refuge habitats such as the log pile house from the gruffalo. We can coppice small trees or willow tunnels that have gone out of control for den building or other forest school resources.

Bring us in to train teaching staff on outdoor learning

We welcome staff working alongside us to pick up tips or as part of their CPD as we deliver a range of experiences.

We can showcase outdoor learning and train staff with specific curricular objectives in mind or help build staff confidence so they are comfortable teaching outdoors. Want a mentor for an NQT to take learning outdoors? We can help.