Where the wild ones learn curriculum

🌿 Join the Where the Wild Ones Learn App! 🌿

If you love nature‑based learning, child‑led practice, and gentle support for your setting, our app is the perfect space for you.

✨ In the free section, you’ll find monthly resources, reflections, and community conversations.

🌱 In the paid hub (£10/month), you’ll unlock:
• 50% off all workshops
• A free webinar every month
• Bi- Weekly mini trainings
• Fresh resources each month
• A supportive practitioner community

It’s a calm, inclusive space for educators, childminders, and Forest School leaders across the UK, all growing together.

💚 Come and join us today!

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🌟New Workshop: Risk and Resilience: The Role Of Risky Play🌟

Only £30 • Instant Certificate • Perfect for CPD

Are you ready to feel more confident supporting children’s adventurous, meaningful play outdoors?

Our brand‑new workshop, Understanding Risky Play, is now open, and it’s packed with clear, practical guidance for early years practitioners, childminders, Forest School leaders, and anyone passionate about child‑led learning.

For just £30, you’ll explore:

✨ What risky play really is (and what it isn’t)
✨ Myths vs. reality, and how to challenge common fears
✨ The developmental benefits: physical, cognitive, emotional
✨ How to balance safety and freedom with confidence
✨ Designing outdoor spaces that invite safe challenge
✨ Seasonal opportunities for risk and resilience
✨ Communicating with families and inspectors
✨ Linking risky play to curriculum outcomes

You’ll finish with an instant certificate, ready to add straight to your CPD portfolio.

If you want to deepen your understanding, boost your confidence, and champion adventurous play in your setting, this workshop is for you.

🌱 Join us and empower children to explore, stretch, and thrive.

Sign up now https://jodie-s-site-e84d.thinkific.com/products/courses/ai-placeholder

🌿 UNDER 5s FOREST SCHOOL, WHAT A DAY! 🌿

We had such a brilliant time at our Under 5s Forest School today.

The children made their own chalk paint using hammers and water, then used it to decorate shells with the most beautiful colours and patterns.

There was sand play, lots of imaginative fun, homemade binoculars, and a little adventure around the community gardens to see what treasures we could find.

Back at camp, the mud kitchen was in full swing with plenty of free play and child‑led exploration.

These kinds of rich, hands‑on experiences are exactly what we teach in our Nature Practitioner Level 2 training, helping practitioners build confidence outdoors, understand nature‑based pedagogy, and create meaningful learning opportunities just like these.

If you love what we do and want to deepen your own outdoor practice, Level 2 is the perfect first step.

Sign up now and grab one of the last spots for this year £199 there is also a pay monthly option.

https://jodie-s-site-e84d.thinkific.com/products/courses/WheretheWildOnesLearn:Nature%20PractitionerTrainingLevel2

🌿 Feeling unsure outdoors?

You’re not the only one.If any of these sound familiar…
✨ You second‑guess yourself
✨ You’re always hunting for new activity ideas
✨ You wonder if children are actually learning
✨ You feel more confident indoors
✨ You struggle with observations outdoors

You’re not alone, most practitioners were never taught how to feel confident, intentional and skilled in outdoor practice.

That’s exactly why our Nature Practitioner Level 2 course exists.It’s the first step on the pathway to becoming a fully qualified Nature Practitioner Level 3, a role designed specifically for Early Years, equivalent in level to Forest School Level 3, and insurable.

Level 2 gives you:
🌱 Practical, child‑led outdoor activity ideas
🌱 Confidence to plan, observe and evidence learning outdoors
🌱 Skills to use natural materials with purpose
🌱 A deeper understanding of nature‑based pedagogy
🌱 A supportive community of practitioners who “get it”

If you’re ready to feel confident outdoors, and give children the rich, meaningful experiences they deserve, this is where it begins.Find out more about Level 2

Course starts in August, get one of the last spots now just £199 with a pay monthly option.

https://jodie-s-site-e84d.thinkific.com/products/courses/WheretheWildOnesLearn:Nature%20PractitionerTrainingLevel2

🌿 NEW WEBINAR: PDA in the Early Years 🌿

We’re so excited to bring you this gentle, informative session all about supporting children with a PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance or what we prefer Persistent Drive for Autonomy or Pervasive drive for autonomy) profile in early years settings.

This webinar is delivered by Rachel and Jodie, combining lived experience, professional insight, and real‑world early years practice.

🍃 About Rachel
Rachel is a parent to a child with a PDA profile and brings honest, grounded insight into what PDA looks like at home and in daily life. She also has experience in the early years sector and has managed residential homes for children with behavioural and complex needs.

🌼 About Jodie
Jodie is a nature‑based early years educator specialising in neuro‑affirming, child‑led practice. She supports practitioners to understand behaviour through the lens of the nervous system and create emotionally attuned environments where children feel safe and understood.

✨ In this webinar, we’ll explore:
• What PDA can look like in the early years
• Understanding behaviour through nervous system needs
• Practical, compassionate strategies you can use straight away
• How to reduce overwhelm and support regulation
• Sensitive ways to communicate with families

This session is perfect for childminders, early years practitioners, teachers, and anyone wanting to understand PDA in a more human, connected way.

💛 Join us for a supportive, eye‑opening session that puts the child at the heart of the practice.

https://jodie-s-site-e84d.thinkific.com/products/live_events/pda-early-years-live-event

🌿 Little Hands, Big Impact 🌿

Everyday moments become powerful learning when children explore how their choices shape the world around them. From saving water to caring for plants, from reusing materials to taking pride in tiny habits this is where eco‑thinking truly begins.

Through play, curiosity, and hands‑on exploration, children discover that they can make change. Not someday. Not when they’re older. Now. Our sustainability workshop helps practitioners bring these ideas to life with simple, meaningful activities that fit naturally into daily practice.

Because when we nurture awareness early, we grow protectors of the planet.

🌱 Small hands. Big change. 🌱

https://jodie-s-site-e84d.thinkific.com/products/courses/new-course

🌿 READY TO DEEPEN YOUR CONFIDENCE OUTDOORS?

If this carousel spoke to you, the understanding, the clarity, the community, the real‑world skills, then our Nature Practitioner Level 2 might be exactly what you’ve been looking for.

This course isn’t just information.
It’s a shift in how you see children, nature, and your role within it.

✨ Build confidence in nature pedagogy
✨ Understand schemas, regulation, and early development outdoors
✨ Learn practical skills you can use the very next day
✨ Gain a recognised accreditation
✨ Join a warm, supportive community that truly gets it

Our August cohort is nearly full, and once it’s full, that’s it until the next intake.

Pay‑monthly option available to make it accessible for all practitioners.

If you’re ready to feel grounded, capable, and inspired outdoors… this is your next step.

Drop LEVEL 2 below and I’ll send you the link