Education Services
Early Years Consultancy and Training
As a busy Early Years leader, it can feel overwhelming when you are bogged down by the day-to-day running of your setting. This leaves you with very little time to focus on developing an engaging outdoor learning environment and supporting your staff’s practice.
Nurturing Wild’s education services help you transform your outdoor play provision into an engaging nature-based learning environment for child-led play. Our training, workshops and consultancy support you to develop your team’s practice and knowledge, so they can have high quality interactions with the children playing outdoors.
WHAT WE OFFER:
Staff Training
Parent Workshops
Consultancy
What my clients say
We always come away feeling wonderfully rejuvenated and happy. My son and daughter have developed in confidence and taken great pleasure in the collaborative hands-on fun that Julia’s sessions facilitate.
Both of my children have been lucky enough to enjoy forest school sessions with Julia from a young age. They quickly became a highlight of our week and are such a nice way to spend time outside. With lots of different things to do each week, we always have lots of fun and it’s wonderful to play together in a properly child-led, engaging group. I highly recommend Nurturing Wild.
Nurturing Wild sessions are fantastic! My little one has come on so much. She’s now picking up worms, joining in with the songs and loves the muddy crafts!
Early Years Education Training
Training Sessions
Nurturing Wild delivers bespoke workshops, staff training sessions and INSET day training to support your team’s continuous professional development.
We can cover a range of areas linked with outdoor play, including:
Language rich outdoor spaces – developing communication and language skills (oracy) through nature-based outdoor play.
Urban outdoor spaces – how to provide nature connection experiences in urban sites.
Being an effective play partner – to support children’s learning and development in your outdoor provision.
Loose parts open-ended play – in outdoor spaces for creativity and problem solving.
Nature books – developing a love of reading through nature-based fiction and non-fiction texts.
Pop me your email and I’ll be in touch to book a free 20-minute call to discuss bespoke training
Webinars
Live, online webinars for educators and senior leaders
The focus for these sessions changes regularly, to cover a wide range of topics that support your ongoing continuous professional development (CPD). There is time for a Q&A discussion at the end of each webinar.
Topics we can cover include:
supporting language development at the mud kitchen
mark making outdoors
rainy day play
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Workshops
‘Let Nature Spark the Play!’ Keynote Workshop
If you are looking to ignite enthusiasm for nature-based outdoor play into your setting, our keynote workshop ‘Let Nature Spark the Play’ is a great starting point. This will help to plant the seed of WHY nature connection and outdoor play for children is a necessity, not a nice-to-have.
We share practical ideas and inspiration for developing nature-based play in your outdoor provision. This can be delivered in-person in the London area or via a live online session.
Pop me your email and I’ll be in touch to book a free 20-minute call to discuss bespoke training:
Parent Workshops
Bespoke parent workshops for nurseries and pre schools that will help your setting build strong parent partnerships
We can cover a range of areas linked with outdoor play, such as:
How to be a play partner to support your child’s learning and development.
Wellbeing for families through nature-connection.
Supporting your child’s ‘school readiness’ through outdoor play.
This can be delivered in-person (London area) or ‘live’ online
Pop me your email and I’ll be in touch to book a free 20-minute call to discuss parent workshops.
Consultancy for Education Organisations and Brands
Nurturing Wild offers a bespoke consultancy service to large educational organisations and educational brands. This includes assessing current practice and outdoor provision.
The range of services includes writing, speaking, social media content, website content and bespoke training to meet the needs of your specific educators, leaders and parents.
Pop me your email to enquire about consultancy services.
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Why use Nurturing Wild for Consultancy and Training?
Julia Packwood, Nurturing Wild’s founder, offers consultancy and training using her specialist knowledge, expertise in Early Years education and nature-based outdoor play. With over 20 years’ experience working in education, Julia has taught across key stages 1 and 2 as a primary school teacher, BA(ED)QTS. She held subject lead roles for science, literacy, phonics and senior leadership, and taught nursery, reception and led an Early Years team. In 2019, Julia qualified as a level 3 Forest School leader and is passionate about supporting educators and parents to ‘Let nature spark the play!’
Julia’s broad education experiences and roles of teacher, senior manager, parent and Forest School leader give her a unique perspective. She helps you to go beyond why it matters, showing you to how to practically implement and develop your practice and transform your outdoor space, so you can provide high quality outdoor nature-based play for all children.
