Rethinking Curriculum – Nature based and outdoor learning in the primary curriculum

Rethinking Curriculum webinar series #RethinkingCurriculum

Outdoor learning is now regularly seen in our primary schools but how can you implement a wider curriculum outdoors and how can you ensure impact for your children? 

We will bring together a group of expert practitioners and researchers to discuss outdoor learning in the curriculum, with an opportunity for discussion and questions for all audience members to learn about the why, how and what next in the implementation of an outdoor focussed primary curriculum.

It will be particularly valuable to primary teachers, those involved in curriculum design more broadly, and all educators who want to learn about climate education and sustainability curriculum in practice.

This is being shared with you as part of ‘Rethinking Curriculum’, a project aiming to support and equip teachers and school leaders with the knowledge and skills to identify, plan and implement curriculum development work in a sustainable, context specific and impactful approach. 

Rethinking Curriculum Project – chartered.college

About the session

This webinar is part of a series around curriculum enrichment in primary schools as part of the extensive project for the Chartered College, Rethinking Curriculum. This aims to support and equip teachers and school leaders with the knowledge and skills to identify, plan and implement curriculum development work in a sustainable, creative and place based approach. This will mean that all pupils will have access to an expansive, inspiring curriculum that connects them with local communities and enables them to lead healthy, fulfilled lives.

 Our webinar series around curriculum enrichment aims to bring experts around curriculum implementation with a variety of foci from youth social action, play, oracy, pupil agency, sustainability and many more. This series will be brought to you over the academic year 2023-24 and will aim to share from experts and allow attendees to discuss and ask questions. You will also have resources from the project pilot made available to you in relation to the webinar topics.

Event attendees will have access not just to the event itself but to supporting materials and resources in order to start discussions in their settings.

Recommended reading: To follow

The session will be hosted by Jenna Crittenden (Curriculum Design Lead and part of the Professional Learning and Accreditation team)  from the Chartered College of Teaching ,our guests TBC. This will include the opportunity for attendees to pose their own questions to our guest panel around their experiences in implementing social action in primary schools.

• Penny Hay-Pen Hay is the founder of Schools without walls, and has been working in nature and creative curriculum support for many years. She now has the best title in the country as professor of imagination at Bath Spa University and will be sharing some of her experiences on supporting schools in implementing an outdoor and nature based curriculum with us .
• Jonelle Yeoman-, mother of two young children, Headteacher of a one form entry Community Primary and Nursery School in Skipton. I am passionate about sports, creativity, sustainability, EYFS, Outdoor learning, bees and new opportunities for all children. A classroom is not always the most suitable environment for all children to learn in. Almost all of my personal favourite childhood memories from primary school happened outdoors.  
• Yvette Pearse is Deputy Head Teacher at Bagthorpe  Primary School, a semi-rural primary school of 170 pupils, approximately 10 miles from Nottingham.  As Curriculum Lead, Yvette has a keen interest in how we use our outdoor environment in a meaningful and authentic way, to provide an ambitious curriculum, which is rooted in real learning and promoting personal development.