Curriculum Led Learning Days
Book a Curriculum Led Learning Day at your school site for your class!
GoWild Outdoors can facilitate your curriculum in many subject areas, with bespoken activities for:
History
Research the history of woodland, the uses of wood (shipbuilding), and woodland site itself. Topical-themed days.
English Language & Communication
Learning names of flora and fauna, storytelling from collected woodland items, introducing new words, capturing the imagination of children, development of more sophisticated language and vocabulary, use of sensory experiences as a developmental tool or stimulus.
Early Years groups may like to put an emphasis on descriptive words such as squelchy mud, cracking ice, and snapping sticks in a combination of music/sound and literacy / English.
Maths
Finding shapes, surveying numbers of minibeasts, working out the girth of trees / speed of flow of streams, use of maths in bushcrafts (measuring, counting, size).
Design & Technology
Shelter building, animal homes, cooking, design boats to test on the pond, wood working, using tools.
Art & Crafts
Lots and lots of options including Mud hedgehogs, wild masks, tree faces, and willow work.
Geography
Map making, map reading, trails, orienteering, looking at the human impact on woodland, landscapes.
Testimonial
"GoWild Outdoors have been instrumental in helping to develop a Forest School Programme at our school. Along with Debbie and Jordan, Chris is passionate about outdoor learning and the classes love their bi-weekly sessions with them, in all weathers."
"They have developed sessions that contain a combination of Forest School skills and curriculum linked activities; providing each week an abundance of high quality resources and equipment.
"Some sessions were spread over a whole day to complement our curriculum such as a Stone Age day for years 3 and 4.
"Having quality instructors makes such a difference to our children helping them to develop their social, emotional, physical and intellectual abilities through working and playing in a nature where they feel safe but also learn to take risks."
Kevin Wheeler, HeadteacherMyrtle Park Primary School
One of the benefits of GoWild Outdoors coming to your school on a curriculum learning day is that we can tailor the day's activities to suit your needs. Being able to work to your school schedule means your classes could easily combine classroom and outdoor learning in the course of a day.
Bring history to life and get hands on with the past with our History Curriculum Led Learning Days!
Keen to uncover our past! Why not come join us and you can do the same!
Our Curriculum Led Learning (CLD) days draw inspiration from our experienced leader, who holds an MA in archaeology and is passionate about sharing historical knowledge through outdoor experiences.
These days are primarily conducted outdoors, offering interactive and immersive learning opportunities. Children engage with the past through hands-on activities, utilising natural and traditional resources whenever feasible.
Each session caters to one class of children, but we welcome inquiries for larger groups.
What's included?
- A trained practitioner with of experience history and working in the school environment.
- An exciting action-packed day designed to keep children engaged & entertained!
- We have real artefacts and replica objects for children to touch and examine.
- Every child will have the opportunity to make a souvenir to take home and keep.
- Workshops can be bespoken and adapted to suit specific topic areas and local history.
- Activities can vary depending on key stage.
The school needs to provide:
- Teacher and staff support to provide appropriate adult to child ratios for outdoor learning.
- A suitable outdoor space for the session and indoor space (depending on the CLD chosen), which can be used exclusively by the group for the day.
- Letters to parents to advise that pupils need to come dressed for outdoor learning with suitable warm and waterproof clothes and footwear.
- Please note: In the case of bad weather some sessions can be adapted for the indoors.
History Topics
Please see below to find out so much more about the fun range of themed activities we can offer your young people.
The Stone Age
Is one of our most popular CLD, where children examine and compare the changes through the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic of pre-historic Britain.
Children have the opportunity to learn and understand about the homestead, art and culture and hunting.
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities with take-home souvenirs.
A standard day session for 1x class include areas and activities such as:
- Talk and showing of artefacts and replicas of the period, Shelter building, primitive fire skills, hunting, cave art & pottery
- There are other options which can too be incorporated and discussed upon enquiry. Ideally suited for 1x class for the full day.
- All day outdoors.
- N.B. If a split day between 2x classes, then each class needs about 3hrs. The activities are more limited due to the time available.
The Romans and/or Celts
Children will learn about the Roman impact on Britain and the Celts after AD43.
Children will learn about Roman and Celtic life in the homestead, Life in the Legions, life as a gladiator and Boudicca’s rebellion.
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities with take-home souvenirs.
A standard day session for 1x class include areas and activities such as:
- Talk and showing of artefacts and replicas of the period, Legion Camp building and marching and battle, aqueducts, pottery, felting, Gods, Numerals, Roman game Trigon, Celtic Crafts
- This can focus solely on the Romans but can have Celts incorporated into it. Please contact us to discuss further.
- There are other options which can too be incorporated and discussed upon enquiry.
- Ideally suited for 1x class for the full day.
- Is helpful to have the beginning part indoors and the rest of the day outdoors.
- N.B. If a split day between 2x classes, then each class needs about 3hrs. The activities are more limited due to the time available.
The Anglo-Saxons
Children will learn about the early settlement of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain following the departure of the Romans. They will learn about life in the homestead and villages.
Our Anglo-Saxon workshop looks at the armour and weapons used for battle, art and culture, religion, language, jewellery, coins and the poem of Beowulf.
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities with take-home souvenirs.
A standard day session for 1x class include areas and activities such as:
- Talk and showing of artefacts and replicas of the period, fire skills, war and battle, art and culture, runes, and Beowulf.
- There are other options which can too be incorporated and discussed upon enquiry.
- Can be combined with elements of the Viking period.
- Ideally suited for 1x class for the full day. Is helpful to have the beginning part indoors and the rest of the day outdoors.
- N.B. If a split day between 2x classes, then each class needs about 3hrs. The activities are more limited time available.
The Vikings
Children will learn about the arrival of the Vikings, 300 years after the Anglo-Saxons.
Our Viking CLD features, Raiding & Invading, settling, culture and crafts and a fierce struggle for supremacy with the Saxons.
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities with take-home souvenirs.
A standard day session for 1x class include areas and activities such as:
- Artefacts and replicas of the period, Runes, battle, Viking navigation and longboats, Gods, and myths, shelter building, fire skills, open fire cooking (weather dependant).
- There are other options which can too be incorporated and discussed upon enquiry.
- Ideally suited for 1x class for the full day.
- Is helpful to have the beginning part indoors and the rest of the day outdoors.
- N.B. If a split day between 2x classes, then each class needs about 3hrs. The activities are more limited due to the time available.
The World Wars
Children can focus on either one of the two Great Wars WWI OR WWII, or it can generically cover both. It too, can be adapted to focus on a school’s local history.
Children will learn what it is like to have to go to war and survive on the home front. It’s an exciting living history experience that offers children a practical insight into the lives of those who lived during the Great War. How would they survive?
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities with take-home souvenirs.
A standard day session for 1x class include areas and activities such as:
- Survival skills - Building army/air raid shelters, foraging for foods and growing their own, fire lighting, giving 1st aid and moving injured comrades, Semaphore signalling.
- There are other options which can too be incorporated and discussed upon enquiry.
- Can be combined with elements of the Viking period.
- Ideally suited for 1x class for the full day. Is helpful to have the beginning part indoors and the rest of the day outdoors.
- N.B. If a split day between 2x classes, then each class needs about 3hrs. The activities are more limited time available.
The Ancient Egyptians
Bring the Ancient Egyptians to life and take the children back to an era 5000 years ago.
Our Ancient Egyptians CLD features Egyptian culture, arts and crafts and looks into the preparing for afterlife and the ancient tombs of the Pharaohs great pyramids.
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities with take-home souvenirs.
A standard day session for 1x class include areas and activities such as:
- Building Pyramids, Hieroglyphics, a Cartouche, Mummies, the Shaduf.
- Ideally suited for 1x class for a full or half day.
- All day outdoors.
- N.B. If a half day or split day between 2x classes, then each class needs about 3hrs. The activities are more limited due to the time available.
The Fire of London
Through our Great Fire of London CLD children will cover key science, history and D&T objectives through nature and the outdoors.
Children will investigate the wattle and daub building method used to build houses in 1666. They will work collaboratively to build their own wattle walls. They will reflect on the weather prior to The Great Fire of London and discuss how this, combined with the materials, will have impacted the fire. We look closer look at Thomas Farriner, his bakery and that fateful night when he failed to put out the flames of his oven. Why was the 1666 fire so destructive?
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities.
A standard day session for 1x class include areas and activities such as:
- Fire demonstration of Thomas Farriers bakery fire and how fire travels, build a Tudor house wall, fire lighting, make damper bread, reenact how buckets of water were passed from the Thames to the fire.
- Ideally suited for 1x class for a full or half day.
- All day outdoors.
- N.B. If a half day or split day between 2x classes, then each class needs about 3hrs. The activities are more limited due to the time available.
Native American Indians
The children will learn about Native American culture, traditions and natural art.
While all Native American tribes have their own culture, traditions, belief systems, and way of life, the children will learn that they all share a tradition of storytelling in the form of myths that have nature and spirituality at their core. The relationship between human beings and the environment around them is hugely significant to Native American tribes. Seasons, weather, animals, and the physical landscape are prominent in legends.
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities with take-home souvenirs.
A standard day session for 1x class include areas and activities such as:
- Dream catcher, journey stick, Ring and pin, charcoal drawings, bracelet making, symbols, hunting, totem pole, Headdresses.
- Ideally suited for 1x class for a full or half day.
- All day outdoors.
- N.B. If a half day or split day between 2x classes, then each class needs about 3hrs. The activities are more limited due to the time available.
Mesoamerica
Children will learn about Mayan society, their way of life, homes, gods, art and culture, worship and temples.
How physical geographical features were used to help these civilisations settle. Life in the rainforest and the power of the Amazon. The relationship between human beings and the environment around them is hugely significant to the ancient Mayan.
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities with take-home souvenirs.
A standard day session for 1x class include areas and activities such as:
- Mayan face masks, Hieroglyphic, symbols and alphabet, cosmology, pyramids, Jewellery, The Chocolate Tree- A Mayan Folktale.
- This can focus solely on the Mayans but can include the Aztecs. Please contact us to discuss further.
- Ideally suited for 1x class for a full or half day. All day outdoors.
- N.B. If a half day or split day between 2x classes, then each class needs about 3hrs. The activities are more limited due to the time available.
The Stone Age
Is one of our most popular CLD, where children examine and compare the changes through the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic of pre-historic Britain. Children have the opportunity to learn and understand about the homestead, art and culture and hunting.
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities with take-home souvenirs.
A standard day session for 1x class include areas and activities such as:
- Talk and showing of artefacts and replicas of the period, Shelter building, primitive fire skills, hunting, cave art & pottery
- There are other options which can too be incorporated and discussed upon enquiry. Ideally suited for 1x class for the full day.
- All day outdoors.
- N.B. If a split day between 2x classes, then each class needs about 3hrs. The activities are more limited due to the time available.
The Romans and/or Celts
Children will learn about the Roman impact on Britain and the Celts after AD43. Children will learn about Roman and Celtic life in the homestead, Life in the Legions, life as a gladiator and Boudicca’s rebellion.
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities with take-home souvenirs.
A standard day session for 1x class include areas and activities such as:
- Talk and showing of artefacts and replicas of the period, Legion Camp building and marching and battle, aqueducts, pottery, felting, Gods, Numerals, Roman game Trigon, Celtic Crafts
- This can focus solely on the Romans but can have Celts incorporated into it. Please contact us to discuss further.
- There are other options which can too be incorporated and discussed upon enquiry.
- Ideally suited for 1x class for the full day.
- Is helpful to have the beginning part indoors and the rest of the day outdoors.
- N.B. If a split day between 2x classes, then each class needs about 3hrs. The activities are more limited due to the time available.
Anglo-Saxons
Children will learn about the early settlement of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain following the departure of the Romans. They will learn about life in the homestead and villages. Our Anglo-Saxon workshop looks at the armour and weapons used for battle, art and culture, religion, language, jewellery, coins and the poem of Beowulf.
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities with take-home souvenirs.
A standard day session for 1x class include areas and activities such as:
- Talk and showing of artefacts and replicas of the period, fire skills, war and battle, art and culture, runes, and Beowulf.
- There are other options which can too be incorporated and discussed upon enquiry.
- Can be combined with elements of the Viking period.
- Ideally suited for 1x class for the full day. Is helpful to have the beginning part indoors and the rest of the day outdoors.
- N.B. If a split day between 2x classes, then each class needs about 3hrs. The activities are more limited time available.
The Vikings
Children will learn about the arrival of the Vikings, 300 years after the Anglo-Saxons. Our Viking CLD features, Raiding & Invading, settling, culture and crafts and a fierce struggle for supremacy with the Saxons.
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities with take-home souvenirs.
A standard day session for 1x class include areas and activities such as:
- Artefacts and replicas of the period, Runes, battle, Viking navigation and longboats, Gods, and myths, shelter building, fire skills, open fire cooking (weather dependant).
- There are other options which can too be incorporated and discussed upon enquiry.
- Ideally suited for 1x class for the full day.
- Is helpful to have the beginning part indoors and the rest of the day outdoors.
- N.B. If a split day between 2x classes, then each class needs about 3hrs. The activities are more limited due to the time available.
The World Wars
Children can focus on either one of the two Great Wars WWI OR WWII, or it can generically cover both. It too, can be adapted to focus on a school’s local history. Children will learn what it is like to have to go to war and survive on the home front. It’s an exciting living history experience that offers children a practical insight into the lives of those who lived during the Great War. How would they survive?
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities with take-home souvenirs.
A standard day session for 1x class include areas and activities such as:
- Survival skills - Building army/air raid shelters, foraging for foods and growing their own, fire lighting, giving 1st aid and moving injured comrades, Semaphore signalling.
- There are other options which can too be incorporated and discussed upon enquiry.
- Ideally suited for 1x class for the full day. All day outdoors.
- N.B. If a split day between 2x classes, then each class needs about 3hrs. The activities are more limited due to the time available.
Ancient Egyptians
Bring the Ancient Egyptians to life and take the children back to an era 5000 years ago. Our Ancient Egyptians CLD features Egyptian culture, arts and crafts and looks into the preparing for afterlife and the ancient tombs of the Pharaohs great pyramids.
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities with take-home souvenirs.
A standard day session for 1x class include areas and activities such as:
- Building Pyramids, Hieroglyphics, a Cartouche, Mummies, the Shaduf.
- Ideally suited for 1x class for a full or half day.
- All day outdoors.
- N.B. If a half day or split day between 2x classes, then each class needs about 3hrs. The activities are more limited due to the time available.
Fire of London
Through our Great Fire of London CLD children will cover key science, history and D&T objectives through nature and the outdoors. Children will investigate the wattle and daub building method used to build houses in 1666. They will work collaboratively to build their own wattle walls. They will reflect on the weather prior to The Great Fire of London and discuss how this, combined with the materials, will have impacted the fire. We look closer look at Thomas Farriner, his bakery and that fateful night when he failed to put out the flames of his oven. Why was the 1666 fire so destructive?
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities such as:
A standard day session for 1x class include areas and activities such as:
- Fire demonstration of Thomas Farriers bakery fire and how fire travels, build a Tudor house wall, fire lighting, make damper bread, reenact how buckets of water were passed from the Thames to the fire.
- Ideally suited for 1x class for a full or half day.
- All day outdoors.
- N.B. If a half day or split day between 2x classes, then each class needs about 3hrs. The activities are more limited due to the time available.
Native American Indians
The children will learn about Native American culture, traditions and natural art. While all Native American tribes have their own culture, traditions, belief systems, and way of life, the children will learn that they all share a tradition of storytelling in the form of myths that have nature and spirituality at their core. The relationship between human beings and the environment around them is hugely significant to Native American tribes. Seasons, weather, animals, and the physical landscape are prominent in legends.
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities with take-home souvenirs.
A standard day session for 1x class include areas and activities such as:
- Dream catcher, journey stick, Ring and pin, charcoal drawings, bracelet making, symbols, hunting, totem pole, Headdresses.
- Ideally suited for 1x class for a full or half day.
- All day outdoors.
- N.B. If a half day or split day between 2x classes, then each class needs about 3hrs. The activities are more limited due to the time available.
Mesoamerica
Children will learn about Mayan society, their way of life, homes, gods, art and culture, worship and temples. How physical geographical features were used to help these civilisations settle. Life in the rainforest and the power of the Amazon. The relationship between human beings and the environment around them is hugely significant to the ancient Mayan.
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities with take-home souvenirs.
A standard day session for 1x class include areas and activities such as:
- Mayan face masks, Hieroglyphic, symbols and alphabet, cosmology, pyramids, Jewellery, The Chocolate Tree- A Mayan Folktale.
- This can focus solely on the Mayans but can include the Aztecs. Please contact us to discuss further.
- Ideally suited for 1x class for a full or half day. All day outdoors.
- N.B. If a half day or split day between 2x classes, then each class needs about 3hrs. The activities are more limited due to the time available.
All our sessions have elements of and focus on communication, teamwork and problem solving.
One of the benefits of GoWild Outdoors coming to your school on a curriculum learning day is that we can tailor the day's activities to suit your needs. Being able to work to your school schedule means your classes could easily combine classroom and outdoor learning in the course of a day.
Outdoor Learning
Please get in touch!
Find out so much more about the fun range of themed activities we can offer your young people.
Environment, Natural habitats & nature
Explore nature's classroom through a fun and educational outdoor session. Learn about different trees, animals and other amazing things that can be found in the outdoors.
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities with take-home souvenirs.
There are opportunities focus or include specific area around animal senses, variations, habitats, classifications, adaptations, Food Chains, Food Webs and Food Pyramids.
Learning Outcomes
- Enjoyment
- Teamwork
- Communication
- Leadership
- Listening skills
- Carrying out instructions
- Learn about wildlife and natural environment
- Analytical skill
Mini-Beasts
Children are often fascinated by the wonders of mini-beasts, let them become intrepid explorers in the outdoors and search for creepy crawlies.
Our workshop is interacting and provides children with the opportunity to look at our collection of mini-beasts from around the world, from scorpions, beetles, moths, spiders, giant ants and many more. They will have the opportunity to compare, contrasting species, looking at predator-prey relationships and mini-beast food chains. They will discover the important role these creatures play in the ecology of the outdoors.
Our workshop is interacting and provides children with the opportunity to look at our collection of mini-beasts from around the world, from scorpions, beetles, moths, spiders, giant ants and many more.
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities with take-home souvenirs.
Learning Outcomes
- Enjoyment
- Teamwork
- Communication
- Leadership
- Listening skills
- Carrying out instructions
- Learn about wildlife and natural environment
- Analytical skill
Mapping, navigation & orienteering skills
Children will learn the basic principles of map reading, compass work and other navigation skills.
These skills can then be used to identify rights of way, symbols etc on a map, orientate the map to the landscape, then use a map and compass to navigate and orienteer around a route.
This session can be adapted to be age appropriate.
Learning Outcomes
- Teamwork
- Analytical skills
- Leadership
- Enjoyment
- Listening skills
- Communication
- Encouragement and support
- Mutual respect
- Carrying out instructions
Den Building
Make the most of your school grounds and engage your children with learning about den building.
Through this workshop children will develop an understanding of the value of den building and importance of shelter. They will have the opportunity to look at and make different types of shelters and experiment with a range of materials to build their own dens.
Learning Outcomes
- Teamwork
- Analytical skills
- Leadership
- Enjoyment
- Listening skills
- Communication
- Encouragement and support
- Mutual respect
- Carrying out instructions
Outdoor Survival & Bushcraft
Learn about the basic need to survive and the principles of survival.
Children will learn about the different methods of primitive fires and have the opportunity to successfully light their own fire, build different methods of shelters, learn about the methods to filter water in an emergency and use natural materials.
Learning can be related to our modern lives compared to people elsewhere in the world living more of a survival existence or to enhance an appreciation, understanding and connection to the natural world and what it provides for us.
Learning Outcomes
- Teamwork
- Analytical skills
- Leadership
- Enjoyment
- Listening skills
- Communication
- Encouragement and support
- Mutual respect
- Carrying out instructions
Problem Solving & Team Building
We have problem solving resources that can be used indoors and outdoors, with some physical and some more cognitive all involving team work and tasks to explore team dynamics and the process of plan-do-review.
This session can also be presented as a fun competition between teams.
Learning Outcomes
- Teamwork
- Enjoyment
- Listening skills
- Communication
- Encouragement and support
- Mutual respect
- Carrying out instructions
- Risk awareness
- Increased self-esteem and confidence
- Shared experience
- Willingness to try
- New skills
- Personal development
- Sense of achievement.
Birds & their habitats
Learn about bird and their habitats by exploring how most birds work tirelessly each spring to build a nest using only their beaks.
Ours session will take some time to consider these amazing structures, see example and look at the importance of their design and construction for the job they do, the various sizes, shapes and locations chosen. Learning about different types of birds and behaviours. Interact with our collection of bird feathers and learn what they tell us about them.
Children will learn through a combination of practical have-a-go activities with take-home souvenirs.
Learning Outcomes
- Enjoyment
- Teamwork
- Communication
- Leadership
- Listening skills
- Carrying out instructions
- Learn about wildlife and natural environment
- Analytical skill
All our sessions have elements of and focus on communication, teamwork and problem solving.
One of the benefits of GoWild Outdoors coming to your school on a curriculum learning day is that we can tailor the day's activities to suit your needs. Being able to work to your school schedule means your classes could easily combine classroom and outdoor learning in the course of a day.
Want to know more?
Get in touch now, and find out how outdoor learning can allow your young learners to connect with the outdoors and develop a sense of belonging and stewardship of their local landscape.
Prices
Please contact us to discuss any specific requirements, and we will be happy to provide a bespoke quote based on your information.
Location
We can run bespoke sessions at school premises throughout the UK to cater to your needs. But our main base is in the Yorkshire region.
What to wear
Come prepared for a day outside! Ideally wearing old clothing suitable to the weather and sturdy footwear or wellies.
Fun for the whole family!
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