Taking Learning Outdoors

Taking Learning Outdoors

A Practical, High-Impact Pathway to Student Well-Being, Engagement, and Environmental Responsibility

As a school leader, you are looking for approaches that genuinely improve your students' focus, emotional well-being, behaviour, and learning outcomes, without increasing teacher workload or requiring major curriculum changes. Taking Learning Outdoors offers exactly that. It provides your staff with a research-informed, scalable method for transforming ordinary transition moments into powerful opportunities for wellness, concentration, and connection to the natural world.

In a time marked by the climate crisis and growing mental-health concerns among children, this training equips your teachers with an accessible, meaningful and immediately usable way to respond. By intentionally integrating short, regular periods outdoors on your school grounds, your teachers strengthen attention, restore calm, support resilience, and encourage healthier habits that benefit your entire school community.

The foundational course (Section I) gives your staff the what, who and why behind outdoor learning, offering a practical framework that fits any curriculum and any school environment.

Section II, the 100 For Earth Initiative, provides a sustainable structure that ensures these practices become part of your school culture, not just an inspiring idea, but a lasting habit that supports well-being and environmental stewardship year-round.

Why Your School Should Invest in This Training

◾A proven, low-cost way to improve your students' behaviour and readiness to learn

Regular, intentional time outdoors reduces stress, increases focus, stabilises emotions, and helps children return to class calmer and more regulated. This directly improves lesson flow and classroom climate.

◾A sustainable well-being strategy that benefits every learner

The training gives your staff concrete routines that work for all students, including those struggling with anxiety, attention, sensory regulation, or low motivation.

◾No extra prep, no restructuring, no infrastructure required

Your teachers learn how to integrate micro-moments outdoors without planning elaborate outdoor lessons. The approach fits seamlessly into existing schedules.

◾Enhanced staff capacity across roles

This course isn’t just for your teachers. Administrators, specialists, lunch supervisors and after-school care staff all gain tools to support your students through meaningful outdoor transitions.

◾A future-focused way to nurture environmental awareness

Your students develop a genuine relationship with nature, forming habits of care and responsibility that align with global sustainability goals.

◾A unified, whole-school approach

The 100 For Earth Initiative provides a shared structure that keeps outdoor routines consistent and sustainable, even amid the pressures of your school calendar.

COURSE STRUCTURE

Section I – Taking Learning Outdoors (3 Modules)

◾Module 1 – Taking Learning Outdoors More: Curbing Crises

Your teachers discover how intentional outdoor time can counter both the climate and youth health crises. By fostering meaningful, repeated contact with nature, they help your students build resilience, emotional grounding, curiosity and healthier patterns of attention.

◾Module 2 – Beyond the Walls: Enhancing your students' Well-Being

This module explores how even brief engagement with natural spaces (including school grounds) boosts focus, motivation, mood and academic performance. “Vitamin Nature” becomes a daily tool for centering the mind and preparing your students for learning.

◾Module 3 – Intentional Connection: Cultivating Earth Stewards

Your teachers learn how regular outdoor routines foster deep relationships with the natural world, empowering your students to become responsible, thoughtful stewards of the Earth.

Section II – The 100 For Earth Initiative

This initiative gives your teachers a practical framework to embed mindful, no-cost outdoor transitions throughout the school day. It ensures continuity, consistency and long-term impact. Schools that join the initiative become part of a global movement dedicated to strengthening planetary and student well-being through daily practice.

Participants Receive:

• Follow-up Q&A session the Monday after the course

• 7-day starter plan for mindful transitions

• 5 simple, ready-to-use strategies for immediate implementation

• 100 For Earth merch to build momentum and visibility within your school community

In investing in this course, you are equipping your school with a sustainable, science-aligned and universally accessible approach to your students' well-being, attention, resilience and environmental consciousness. This is not an “extra”; it is an essential lever for building healthier children, calmer classrooms and a stronger school culture.

Audience:

Primary school staff working with learners aged 4–12, including:

• Administrators

• Classroom teachers

• Specialist teachers

• Lunch supervisors

• After-school care supervisors
  Perfect for beginners, and inspiring even for experienced Forest School practitioners.

Duration: 2.5 hours

Dates: upon request

Certificate: Certificate of Mastery