Monday 15 February 2027, 9am – 3:15pm – Broomlands Primary School

Equip Early Years Practitioners with practical tools and understanding to deliver a family learning programme harnessing the benefits of their local green spaces.

Participants will:
• Understand the benefits of the nurturing nature approach
• Consider ways of engaging with parents and carers in a natural environment
• Understand their role in modelling play and learning to families
• Explore practical examples of group management, risk benefit assessment and the resources required to lead these sessions
• Take away practical skills and resources to support delivery of the nurturing nature programme in their own setting

 

Target Audience – This course is ideally suited to Early Years Practitioners who are already taking their children off-site to explore nature. This is most commonly Forest Kindergarten type activity but could also be visits to the beach, the park or other spaces where they can explore in nature. Practitioners with Forest School training or similar would also benefit. The idea is to use their existing skills and knowledge in these areas and expand on them to develop a family learning programme to engage with families in their setting. We are happy for you to send any suitable staff members to the course, but it will be more beneficial to them and more readily applicable to practice if they already have some prior knowledge of the practicalities of getting off-site. We recommend sending someone from the Early Years improvement team or council wide CLPL team so that they can support practitioners to put what they have learned into practice.

 

Bookings can be made through Business World.