Custom made training courses for teachers in Leeds
We can run all the courses below specifically for your school staff team - we will discuss with you your particular training needs and adapt the training accordingly. These courses are suitable for primary schools.
Alternatively if just one or two members of your staff want training please go to our INSET training for teachers or ETN training pages.
Learning Outside the Classroom - Creative and Inspiring Ideas for Taking Learning Outside
Would you like to make more use of outdoor learning opportunities in your own school grounds?
We can work with your whole staff team, teaching you a range of games and activities for all ages that can be used to complement many areas of the primary curriculum and add a practical angle to classroom teaching. We focus on hands-on activities that encourage children to have fun outdoors, whilst exploring and making sense of the natural world, encouraging empathy with the plants and animals around us. Take a look at the course flyer (pdf format, 171k) for more information.
Nature Play with Early Years
Outdoor play is a statutory requirement in Early Years and Nature Play, playing in and with nature, is a crucial part of this.
Aimed at staff who work with early years children, in a children's centre, nursery or school setting, this course will introduce lots of fun, creative hands-on activities that can be used to help very young children explore, enjoy and make sense of the world around them. We introduce activities suited to all seasons and settings, and include many that don't need lots of expensive kit.
We can also look at the benefits of nature play, how to manage risk, including looking at good risk and bad risk, and how to enhance opportunities for Nature Play in your school grounds. Take a look at the course flyer (pdf format, 195k) for more information.
Making the Most of your School Garden - Growing Vegetables, Learning and Playing in the Natural Environment
This course combines a morning looking at vegetable growing with schools, with an afternoon of environmental games and activities.
Suitable for primary schools who want to develop a school vegetable garden it looks at what to grow to fit in with the school year, different plants for different ages, simple crop rotation and how to sow seeds and nurture plants from seedling to productivity!!
The afternoon then introduces games and activities that can complement many areas of the curriculum, focusing on hands on activities that encourage children to have fun outdoors, whilst exploring and making sense of the natural world, encouraging empathy with the plants and animals around us. Take a look at the course flyer (pdf format, 192k) for more information.
Practical stuff:
- Each of the above courses costs £600 for your whole staff team.
- We run the course in your school grounds (although if you would prefer you could come to Skelton)
- Includes a free copy of our Flying Slug Activity Pack, which is packed full of environmental activities
- Runs from 10 - 4 ish (precise timings arranged to suit you)
- Can be arranged to fit in with your training days
- If you are a small staff team you can share the course with another school
