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Outdoor Learning Training
Outdoor Learning training opportunities
Surrey Wildlife Trust offers Outdoor Learning training for educators
Outdoor Learning is usually curriculum-linked and adult-led, with clear learning objectives and the same structured approach as classroom-based lessons. Taking learning outdoors offers different resources, higher pupil engagement, and the many benefits of fresh air and open space on the physical and mental well being of your students.
Leading Outdoor Learning (Level 2) Course
Accredited by AIM Qualifications, this Level 2 course is designed to enable primary school staff and other educators to deliver curriculum-linked activities outdoors.
This accredited 2 day course will give you the skills and confidence to take your learning into nature, using your school grounds or local greenspaces as your classroom. Find out about the benefits of learning outdoors, what your grounds and natural spaces offer for delivering the primary curriculum, risk-benefit assessment and looking after your site. We will also visit a nearby school grounds to look at how they use their grounds in teaching and learning. Complete follow up work to gain a certificate accredited at Level 2 by AIM Qualifications. We deliver this course in partnership with SOLD.
Entry requirements:
Participants should be over 18 years old and have some experience of delivering a curriculum to young people, for example teachers, teaching assistants, or other educators. All participants must be DBS checked. Completion is expected within 6 months.
Other Outdoor Learning courses
You can find a list of our current Outdoor Learning training opportunities on our Nature Network for Educators page.
Forest School Training
Forest School Training is no longer delivered by Surrey Wildlife Trust, but training is still available through a number of local organisations.
Why we no longer offer training
Surrey Wildlife Trust has delivered Forest School training in the county for over a decade, training and supporting hundreds of Forest School Practitioners in Surrey. Now that it is firmly established in the county, and with many other organisations offering this training, we have taken the decision to move our focus elsewhere.
With the urgent need to restore nature by 2030, a core mission of the Wildlife Trusts as a whole. We are now focusing our resources on supporting schools and communities to make positive changes for nature.
We continue to run our Wilder Schools programme in schools, provide a CPD training programme for educators, and offer activities for schools at our educational nature reserve.
Local Forest School training providers
- Bus Stop Pre-School and Forest School
- Sussex Wildlife Trust
- Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust
- Plumpton College.
You may also be interested in joining the Forest School Association, a local support network for those interested in, or delivering, Forest School sessions in Surrey.
You can also keep in touch with Surrey Wildlife Trust through our free Nature Network for Educators.
FAQs
Not sure what to expect? Please email education.centres@surreywt.org.uk with your questions. We can also arrange for you to have a chat with one of our Tutors to find out more about our training courses.
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Can I run a Forest School on SWT land?
If you wish to undertake Forest School activities on one of the sites we manage, please get in touch or complete the form below:
Enquiries
Email: education.centres@surreywt.org.uk
Phone: 01372 379509