If your school wants to embed and develop high-quality outdoor learning, Nature Days has a package to support you. With a range of prices you can choose a route to becoming sector leading in outdoor learning and fully embed high-quality outdoor learning across your school unique to you.
Packages range from low cost resources, to year long mentoring for your school and its staff.
If you are ready for a more long term approach to outdoor learning not a tick box, but the development of an integrated, embedded, progressive outdoor curriculum, look below or contact Nature Days for a chat.
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ADDS sessions can be used to provide ideas for integrating outdoor learning into your school. These are bespoke sessions to meet your school’s needs and can be undertaken as a one-off or as part of a mentoring package. £250 per ADDS.
Whole day INSET for your staff. A cost-effective way to embed outdoor learning across your school. A bespoke day will be developed based on your school’s needs and can include cross-phase planning of progressive outdoor learning, or a subject-targeted approach. A tried and tested whole school ongoing training program can lead on from the INSET, providing continued support, see below. £500 per day.
The whole school outdoor learning school development program. This bespoke program uses Nature Day’s experience of over 20 years to provides
Bespoke staff team teaching, demonstrating lessons in high-quality outdoor learning through best practice with your pupils,
SLT support in policy and procedures to strategically embed outdoor learning across the whole school,
Training of staff in practising effective outdoor learning,
Ongoing online mentoring for staff to continue their journey to excellence. Price on demand.
ITC Level 3 Award in Delivery of Outdoor Learning.
Designed specifically for teaching the Curriculum for Wales.
This accredited training course offers a Level 3 Award in Delivery of Outdoor Learning qualification. It is designed to show participants how to maximise curriculum-linked outdoor learning opportunities using school grounds and their local learning area.
Target Audience
– Educators and support staff at all levels who provide outdoor learning in teaching or supportive roles.
– Individuals seeking to enhance their curriculum and utilize outdoor spaces for educational purposes.
Objectives
– Equip participants with the skills to manage outdoor learning experiences.
– Provide a variety of curriculum-mapped activities and ideas for outdoor learning.
– Help participants identify the risks and benefits of outdoor learning.
– Promote the sustainability of using outdoor spaces for educational purposes.
Course Content
– Curriculum Mapping: Planning activities and ideas mapped to the Curriculum for Wales.
– Risk and Benefit Analysis: Identifying the risks and benefits of outdoor learning.
– Sustainability: Considering the sustainability of using outdoor spaces for learning.
– Managing groups and facilitating learning beyond the classroom.
Qualification Requirements
– Create a workbook of evidence documenting your outdoor learning sessions.
Training Schedule
– Practical Session: One day of face-to-face teaching in a school using the school grounds. Knelston Primary Swansea – Date: See Nature Days website
– Support: Distance learning mentor support to help complete your portfolio for assessment.
Price
– Cost: £250, which includes all training, certification, and support by an Outdoor Learning expert.
Successful completion will result in the candidate gaining ITC level 3 Award in Delivery of Outdoor Learning.
Ability Level(s): Inset Relevant Subject(s): Humanities AOLE Cost: £250 More Info
Nature days can provide three options for the requirements for Unit 2 of the Made for Wales Ready for the world GCSE Geography starting teaching 2026.
Option 1: 2 days in the field
Day 1: Field work skills day and planning.
This field trip will provide skills in the six stages of the enquiry process and provide opportunities to choose and plan their enquiry question for their NEA.
The focus will be on planning an enquiry and developing skills in data collection:
Selecting the correct location
Designing a suitable enquiry question
Using maps to locate fieldwork sites
Risk assessment
Ethical data collection
Sampling approaches
Data collection – qualitative and quantitative
This field work day will provide skills required for students to undertake the planning for their NEA assessment for Unit 2.
A number of locations can be visited and can either be linked to where the NEA will take place.
Rivers
The characteristics of river landforms, flood risk and management and sustainability.
Coasts:
The characteristics of coastal features, coastal defences and sustainability.
Weather:
Microclimate in built up and natural environment.
Retail in urban areas:
Looking at the concept of place and how it changes using a range of qualitative methods to cover all aspects of the enquiry process.
Land use:
How land use has changed over time.
Sustainability:
Urban and rural sustainable environments using Egan’s wheel
Day 2: Data collection field day
After day 1, schools will then go back to school and use the skills and experience from day 1 to plan their NEA and undertake task 1 and 2.
Once ready the class will return to the selected location for their NEA and day 2 will provide opportunity for data collection.
NEA day 2:
Identify location for data collection on site
Undertake data collection using equipment provided
Evaluate the sampling and data collection techniques
By the end of day 2 the students will have collected all their data for their NEA and should have completed task 1 and 2. Then back at school they can complete the rest of the NEA using the data.
Support will be given to teachers on choosing the right location to allow all students to access the requirements of the NEA based on the topics set by WJEC.
Option 2: 2 days, one in class and one in the field
Two day option includes a half or whole day of planning and teaching the skills to plan an NEA undertaken in school. By the end of the day the pupils will have –
Created a suitable enquiry question
Developed sub questions
Written a method for collecting the data including the location, and sampling
Created data collection sheets for their enquiry
After day 1, schools will then go back to school and use the skills a from day 1 to plan their NEA and undertake task 1 and 2.
Once ready the class will return to the selected location for their NEA and day 2 will provide opportunity for data collection.
NEA day 2:
Identify location for data collection on site
Undertake data collection using equipment provided
Evaluate the sampling and data collection techniques
By the end of day 2 the students will have collected all their data for their NEA and should have completed task 1 and 2. Then back at school they can complete the rest of the NEA using the data.
Support will be given to teachers on choosing the right location to allow all students to access the requirements of the NEA based on the topics set by WJEC.
Option 3: 1 day in this field
This is for those who cannot accommodate the two day option. All the preparation teaching will have to be undertaken by the geography teacher but a video and lesson plan and resources will be provided for the selected topic to help them pupil prepare for the field day.
PUPILS MUST have undertaken the planning and generated their own enquiry title, plan and created their own data collection sheets before the field trips.
The field trip day will involve:
Identify location for data collection on site
Undertake data collection using equipment provided
Evaluate the sampling and data collection techniques
By the end of the day the students will have collected all their data for their NEA and should have completed task 1 and 2. Then back at school they can complete the rest of the NEA using the data.
Support will be given to teachers on choosing the right location to allow all students to access the requirements of the NEA based on the topics set by WJEC.
This course can be undertaken over a series of INSETs or online and face to face ADDS sessions to cover all aspects of integrating outdoor learning into the curriculum for Wales.
Content is bespoke to your school and can cover aspects such as:
Starting out. How to teach a four purpose based curriculum through outdoor learning.
Auditing what you do now and your school grounds. – Making the best use of what you have.
Barriers to outdoor learning and overcoming them. – Tips and tricks to make outdoor learning easier.
Integrating outdoor learning into your planning. – Embedding outdoor learning into teaching.
A whole school approach – Systemic changes to embed outdoor learning into your school. Creating an outdoor learning policy.
Practical ideas to teach through outdoor learning. – Science and technology AOLE.
Practical ideas to teach through outdoor learning. – Maths and numeracy AOLE.
Practical ideas to teach through outdoor learning. – Language, Literacy and communication AOLE.
Practical ideas to teach through outdoor learning. – Humanities AOLE
Practical ideas to teach through outdoor learning. – Expressive arts AOLE
Practical ideas to teach through outdoor learning. – Health and Wellbeing AOLE
Cross curricular project ideas to teach through outdoor learning.
Assessment of learning and for learning in outdoor learning.
Risk assessments and risk benefit analysis.
Progression and differentiation in outdoor learning. -The pedagogy of outdoor learning.
School grounds developments. – How to use and develop your school grounds to support outdoor learning.
Becoming sector leading in outdoor learning. – Putting outdoor learning at the heart of your school’s curriculum.
Presented by Dawn Thomas of Nature Days, an independent field studies provider and consultant. Dawn has over 20 years experience of teacher training in outdoor learning and developed resources for outdoor learning for NRW, The National Trust, local councils, and is the Welsh field studies adviser for Geography at WJEC.
Nature Days also provides teacher training and support on using the outdoors to teach, focusing especially on the Curriculum for Wales and how it can be accessed through outdoor learning.
These sessions are suitable for school leaders in outdoor learning, class teachers _ foundation pahse and KS2, TAs and other school leaders.
The sessions will take you on a journey towards using your school grounds and local area to effectively teach the four purposes of the new curriculum for Wales. Each session builds on the last so that you will finish with an in-depth understanding of what outdoor learning is and how it can be used in your school. Each session will be supported by an in-school task to help you integrate aspects of the session into your school.
Prices are based on one day and depend on the number of staff attending and subsistence expenses, we are based in South Wales but will travel. A series of sessions is available, contact naturedays@reynoldston.com for details.
Ability Level(s): Inset Relevant Subject(s): Biology, Geography, Science and technology AOLE, Maths and numeracy AOLE, Language, Literacy and communication AOLE, Humanities AOLE, Expressive arts AOLE, Health and Wellbeing AOLE Cost: £450 More Info
I have created a 20 session teacher training package which will provide you with all the skills you need to embed effective, meaningful, impactful outdoor learning in your school.
These sessions are suitable for school leaders in outdoor learning, class teachers, TAs and other school leaders.
The sessions will take you on a journey towards using your school grounds and local area to effectively teach the four purposes of the new curriculum for Wales. Each session builds on the last so that you will finish with an in-depth understanding of what outdoor learning is and how it can be used in your school. Each session will be supported by an in-school task to help you integrate aspects of the session into your school.
By the end of the course you will have a portfolio of ideas to share with your staff and a plan for taking the new curriculum for Wales and making it bespoke to your school’s outdoor space.
Sessions can be booked on separately. Sessions last 2 hours and are undertaken as a twilight. Cost is £10 per person per session for online training. Buy tickets here.
Session 1: Starting out. How to teach a four purpose based curriculum through outdoor learning.
Session 2: Auditing what you do now and your school grounds. – Making the best use of what you have.
Session 3: Barriers to outdoor learning and overcoming them. – Tips and tricks to make outdoor learning easier.
Session 4: Integrating outdoor learning into your planning. – Embedding outdoor learning into teaching.
Session 5: A whole school approach – Systemic changes to embed outdoor learning into your school. Creating an outdoor learning policy.
Session 6: Practical ideas to teach through outdoor learning. – Science and technology AOLE.
Session 7: Practical ideas to teach through outdoor learning. – Maths and numeracy AOLE
Session 8: Practical ideas to teach through outdoor learning. – Language, Literacy and communication AOLE.
Session 9: Practical ideas to teach through outdoor learning. – Humanities AOLE
Session 10: Practical ideas to teach through outdoor learning. – Expressive arts AOLE
Session 11: Practical ideas to teach through outdoor learning. – Health and Wellbeing AOLE
Session 12: Cross curricular project ideas to teach through outdoor learning. – Using the wider local area as well as school grounds.
Session 13: Assessment of learning and for learning in outdoor learning.
Session 14: Risk assessments and risk benefit analysis.
Session 15: Becoming sector leading in outdoor learning. – Putting outdoor learning at the heart of your school’s curriculum.
Session 16: Meaningful school trips. – Using learning outside the classroom experiences effectively.
Session 17: Undertaking meaningful field trips. – Planning and designing your own field trips.
Session 18: Progression and differentiation in outdoor learning. -The pedagogy of outdoor learning.
Session 19: School grounds developments. – How to use and develop your school grounds to support outdoor learning.
Session 20: Sharing best practice. Discussion of what has worked in your journey of embedding outdoor learning into your school.
Nature Days can provide expert advice and training for taking your learning outdoors.
Reduce the pressure on your indoor areas by using the school grounds for teaching.
Dawn Thomas is a qualified teacher with 20 years experience of teaching outdoors. She can provide training on using outdoor learning for teaching all aspects of the primary curriculum.
Webinars, outdoor or in-school training can be undertaken which is bespoke to meet your school’s needs, be it;
Health and Wellbeing,
First steps to teaching outdoors,
Creating effective outdoor spaces,
Delivery curriculum content outdoors.
Costs are based on number on staff and travel expenses.
Ability Level(s): Inset Relevant Subject(s): Science and technology AOLE, Maths and numeracy AOLE, Language, Literacy and communication AOLE, Humanities AOLE, Expressive arts AOLE, Health and Wellbeing AOLE Cost: £450 More Info
Nature Days can provide expert advice and training for taking your learning outdoors.
Reduce the pressure on your indoor areas by using the school grounds for teaching.
Many primary schools, especially early years, use the outdoors for teaching but less so in secondary.
Dawn Thomas is a qualified secondary science and geography teacher. She can provide training on using outdoor learning for teaching the science and geography secondary curriculum or any other outdoor learning provision.
Webinar, outdoor or in-school training can be undertaken which is bespoke to meet your school’s needs, be it;
Health and Wellbeing,
First steps to teaching outdoors,
Creating effective outdoor spaces,
Delivery curriculum content outdoors.
Ability Level(s): Inset Relevant Subject(s): Science and technology AOLE, Maths and numeracy AOLE, Language, Literacy and communication AOLE, Humanities AOLE, Expressive arts AOLE, Health and Wellbeing AOLE Cost: £450 More Info
All days are bespoke for each school which will build on previous learning and skills.
Maths and Numeracy days can take place in a range of locations around Gower.
An example of activities available are outlined below.
Themed field days:
Themes: Our World, Pirates, Sustainability,
Location: Beach, sand dunes, woodland, river, urban.
Outline of themes:
Activities:
Using equipment to measure and collect data to answer a question and analyse and present data.
Undertake an investigation into the attributes of an environment to collect data to analyse and present. E.g. river study, microclimate study, animal and plant survey.
Maths Trail
Follow digital instructions or written trail to answer maths questions, use Maths eyes to generate their own trail. Trails cover a whole range of mathematical topics.
Geometry looking at shape in the environment.
Use geometry to measure trees, build shelter, angle hunt
Enterprising project. Carbon footprint.
Undertake measuring of pupils carbon footprint and find trees which will absorb their carbon. Create projects to generate income or improve biodiversity of the environment.
Navigation trails.
Using maps and compasses to develop skills in using co-ordinates, measuring distance and estimating.
Ability Level(s): Foundation Phase, KS2, KS3 Relevant Subject(s): Maths and numeracy AOLE Cost: £240 More Info
Exploring literature inspired by the outdoor environment.
Pupils engage and experience literature in the environment it depicts. Experience being shipwrecked on an island and journalling the experience. Using the environment to inspire authentic, creative writing. For example using the book Kensuke’s Kingdom by Micheal Morpurgo or The Explorers by Kathrine Randall.
Discuss and debate contemporary issues evidenced in the environment.
Visit habitats affected by Global Climate Change and discuss issues observed. Create performance pieces to reflect their opinions.
Ability Level(s): KS2, KS3 Relevant Subject(s): Language, Literacy and communication AOLE Cost: £240 More Info
Pupils engage with natural resources and manage these resources to communicate meaning through art. The artistic process is explored including planning, designing, creative thinking and evaluating.
Using the environment to stimulate artistic creations.
Pupils are exposed to stimuli that inspire them to explore, discover and challenge creativeideas. Pupils create original work from the stimuli in the form of pictures, sculptures, music, dance and performance.
Ability Level(s): Foundation Phase, KS2 Relevant Subject(s): Expressive arts AOLE Cost: £240 More Info
