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The award winning 'National Curriculum Outdoors: a complete scheme of work' series of books provide an opportunity for a whole school approach to outdoor learning. 

The series provides progression in knowledge and skills across the key stages and is clearly linked to the National Curriculum objectives.

Purchase the books from our bookshop!  

New Bloomsbury publication 2024! 

Supporting schools to deliver the DfE Sustainability and Climate Change strategy - linking to and supporting the National Education Parks programme - outdoors

Purchase Bloomsbury's National Curriculum Outdoors series and find links to other publications for both children and adults to support your outdoor learning journey.

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Find the free online resources to use alongside the books - curriculum maps, medium term planning (including parity for Wales and Scotland) & reference materials for all books in the series

• An overview of the series, showing all the topics covered in the books
• Starting points to extend your range of outdoor learning environments
• Knots and lashing: instructions, photos and weblinks
• French resources (Key Stage 2 books only)
• Five minute activities

Co-author Deborah Lambert offers accredited flexible and creative  curriculum-linked outdoor learning training for schools, teachers, and teaching assistants. 

The training enhances knowledge and understanding, building practitioner confidence to deliver effective outdoor learning experiences across all curriculum themes and subjects.

See how our flexible approach to training can support you to use your school setting to deliver the curriculum outdoors. 

Use your PE & sport premium funding to support course costs!

In association with Wild Tribe Outdoor Learning, our co-authors deliver curriculum-linked outdoor learning,  with pupils in your own setting for subjects and topics of your own choosing, making learning fun, engaging and memorable! 

This flexible training is entirely tailored to your class needs. 

Sessions focus on developing 21st-century competencies, highlighting the importance of  communication, collaboration and critical thinking. 

Choose a single session or embed the learning with a series of sessions delivered over a half term. 

Co-author Deborah Lambert expands on the progressions outlined in Bloomsbury's National Curriculum Outdoors series and the Sustainability and Climate Change Curriculum Outdoors book, in these practical training days held at venues across the South West. 

Engage in a variety of hands-on activities designed to enhance your skills, deepen your knowledge, and boost your confidence in delivering effective outdoor learning.

Co-author Michelle Roberts (Wild Tribe Outdoor Learning) provides curriculum linked outdoor learning with children and outdoor learning practitioner award training for teachers and teaching assistants to schools in Cornwall and Devon. 

Use your PE & sport premium funding to support course cost!

Wild Tribe also has a dedicated You Tube channel to support home learning - outdoors!

Being an outdoor learning coordinator / practitioner in a setting can seem a lonely job at times! 

Would you like to be part of a network of like minded practitioners? 

Deborah Lambert is chair of the Erasmus+ Natural Schooling Research Interest Group.

We welcome new members and meet online once a term to share ideas, research and practice around a theme. 

The National Curriculum Outdoors series of books have been written by Deborah Lambert,  Michelle Roberts (and her guest writers) and Sue Waite and a foreword  written by Juliet Robertson. 

The Sustainability and Climate Change Curriculum Outdoors is our latest book to be published by Bloomsbury (2024) with Professor Alun Morgan and a foreword by Professor Paul Warwick.

The authors have many years of experience delivering high quality curriculum-based outdoor learning and the research underpinning such practice. 

Find links to journal articles and view recordings of webinars  to hear from the authors themselves about how the books evolved, the  research behind the content, and how educators can use these to develop  outdoor learning at their schools.

Deborah led the Erasmus+ Natural Schooling project, innovating curriculum delivery through outdoor learning with schools in the UK, Sweden, Spain & Italy. 

The handbook, project evaluation report and   free CPD training programme for those wishing to develop a Natural Schooling approach in their own settings (written by Deborah) are freely available from the project website.