Wilder Learning

If you are working with Early Years children or run a playgroup and are looking to connect pre-school children to nature, this accredited 2-day course will give you the skills and confidence to facilitate nature-based outdoor learning and play. Find out about the benefits of outdoor play, how to embed the 5 pathways to nature connection into activities, the impacts outdoor activities may have on the environment and how to mitigate them.

Are you looking to enhance your school's connection to nature? This course follows similar structure as our Early Years certificate, whilst additionally considering the learning needs and abilities of teaching children outdoors throughout all key stages (KS1 - KS3). 

Complete follow up work to gain a certificate accredited at Level 1 by AIM Qualifications.

Course Cost: £200

There is ever emerging research proving that connection to nature really does make us feel better. This accredited 2-day course will give you the skills and confidence to facilitate nature-based outdoor or indoor based nature connection activities to support participant’s health and wellbeing. Find out about the benefits of connecting with nature and how to embed the 5 pathways to nature connection and five ways to wellbeing into your existing or new activities. You will learn the skills required to plan and deliver a session, create a risk-benefit assessment and consider how to select and look after your site. Complete follow up work to gain a certificate accredited at Level 1 by AIM Qualifications. 

This level one AIM award is designed for health groups, voluntary, community, social enterprise and faith groups or businesses as CPD, or for anyone that would like to gain the skills, knowledge and confidence to be able to run nature connection sessions.

Course Cost: £200

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. Complete follow up work to gain a certificate accredited at Level 2 by AIM Qualifications.

Course Cost: £350

Looking to connect children or adults with woodlands while helping them realise their own potential? The Forest School ethos is the perfect tool to do this.

Gain the skills, knowledge and confidence to deliver Forest School in your own setting with an accredited Level 3 course.

Covering the theoretical and practical aspects including principles of Forest School, practical tool use, programme planning and learning theory, this course also includes a 2-day Outdoor First Aid course.

Complete a portfolio workbook and practical assessment to gain a certificate accredited at Level 3 by AIM Qualifications.

Course Cost: £1100

This accredited 2-day course will give you the skills and confidence to using your school grounds or local greenspaces for practical tasks with children. Learners will be able to apply a range of practical skills, relevant to learning outside the classroom including identifying risks, using hand tools to create craft items, and using fires to cook on. Complete follow-up work to gain a certificate accredited at Level 3 by AIM Qualifications.

Course Cost: £400