OUTDOOR LEARNING 4 SCHOOLS

We provide training to help teachers gain the necessary skills and knowledge to teach confidently and effectively outside the classroom. We demonstrate how most aspects of the curriculum can be enriched and extended by teaching and learning outdoors, even with limited facilities and resources. We hope to reignite a sense of curiosity, discovery, and amazement, and a lifelong love of learning that will engage, inspire, and motivate teachers and pupils alike. We offer a wide range of courses, including the highly regarded 1-day Creative Outdoor Learning Award (COLA) which covers many of the key elements of Forest School training (fires/cooking, shelters etc.), but much more besides, and is significantly more relevant, valuable, and affordable for schools.

We provide exciting and enjoyable outdoor learning activities that help to bring curriculum subjects (e.g. Maths or Science)  and topics (e.g. the Stone Age or the British Isles) to life, using your own school grounds. We help you to devise and deliver outdoor activities that will enrich, extend, and enhance the curriculum, and encourage deep and memorable learning.

We are a small family-run business based near York. Taff Bowles is a freelance Outdoor Learning Consultant, who is a qualified and experienced teacher. Taff has worked in schools and outdoor education centres since 1980, and has recently stepped down after 16 years as the Educational Visits and Outdoor Learning Adviser for the East Riding of Yorkshire Council's "School Improvement team". Taff works in partnership with his wife Karin, who also has experience delivering outdoor education to schools.