East of England

Teacher training in primary schools

Teacher training courses are tailored to the needs of the school focusing on learning outside the classroom with direct links to the new Science, Geography, History, Design Technology, Literacy and Numeracy National Curriculums.

Teacher training

Why choose Groundwork?

The training is developed and delivered by our Environmental Education Officers, who have extensive experience in delivering environmental education across the age ranges.

We design courses to inspire teachers to take curriculum learning outdoors and develop confidence in using school grounds and local outdoor spaces to teach all key stages. Courses cover the benefits and risks of using the outdoors as a learning environment and include a range of hands-on practical activities as well as signposting to a range of useful resources for learning outdoors.


How are the workshops structured?

Courses can be run as half or full day on INSET days, or as twilight sessions.


Which topics can be covered?
  • Planning and delivering learning outside the classroom with cross-curricular links
  • Teaching Science outdoors
  • Teaching Humanities outdoors
  • The Pond – an outdoor classroom
  • Woodland – an outdoor classroom
  • Grow your own fruit and vegetables
  • Taking learning to the park/nature reserve
  • Setting up an energy saving campaign

Amazing. Was really brought to life and fun to do. Learnt so much from it to better my practice.

A marvelous insight in to outdoor activities using the best possible stimulus and focus – mother nature, itself!

Very informative and inspiring. So good to have a mix of background/theory and practical. Great to have resources to take away too. Really enjoyable – very good ideas and activities to do.

Good range of activities, lots of new ideas when doing planning for sessions. Lots of knowledge and benefits of outdoor play in natural settings. So many new ideas.


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