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Outdoor Learning Specialism: ADHD and SEMH – Course Info

Support behaviour, boost wellbeing and transform learning through the outdoors.

4–5 hours training | 1 year’s access | No coursework | Videos + Audiobooks
Using the Muddy Puddle Teacher® SEND Framework

Children with ADHD and Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs often struggle in traditional classroom environments — but they thrive outdoors.
This powerful specialist course shows you exactly how to shape outdoor sessions, interventions and lessons that support these learners in a meaningful, structured and evidence-informed way.

Using the trademarked Muddy Puddle Teacher® SEND Framework, you will learn the secrets behind effective outdoor provision for children with behavioural needs, sensory sensitivities, emotional challenges and attention difficulties.

If you want a calmer classroom, happier children, and more confident staff, this is the course for you.

Course Info

Why This Course Is Essential for Today’s Classrooms

Children with ADHD or SEMH need:

  • space to move

  • sensory regulation

  • reduced pressure

  • opportunities to succeed

  • activities that build emotional resilience

  • environments that lower stress and overstimulation

The outdoors offers all of this naturally.
But the right structure is what turns outdoor time into powerful therapeutic learning.

This course teaches you how to craft sessions that:

  • lower stress

  • improve focus

  • reduce behavioural flashpoints

  • support emotional regulation

  • strengthen relationships

  • boost self-esteem

  • meet personalised targets

  • link to curriculum outcomes

And all of this is achieved through simple, sustainable, nature-based approaches.

What You Will Learn

1. How ADHD & SEMH Present Outdoors vs Indoors

Understand why children often behave differently outside, and how to harness this positively.

2. The Muddy Puddle Teacher® SEND Framework

Discover our trademarked approach designed specifically for SEND and behavioural needs.
Learn the key pillars for:

  • regulating

  • re-engaging

  • calming

  • motivating

  • guiding

  • extending learning

3. Crafting Effective Outdoor Interventions

How to design short, high-impact interventions using natural materials and movement.

4. Structuring Full Outdoor Lessons for Behavioural Success

Strategies to plan lessons that reduce overwhelm and build attention.

5. Sensory & Emotional Regulation Through Nature

Use the outdoors as a safe, powerful regulation tool.

6. Play-Based Approaches for Behavioural Development

How to use nature, loose parts and imaginative play to build:

  • resilience

  • communication

  • confidence

  • cooperation

  • emotional expression

7. Supporting Challenging Moments Outdoors

How to approach dysregulation, anger, anxiety or shutdowns using outdoor strategies.

8. Curriculum Links for ADHD & SEMH Learners

How to ensure learning outdoors still drives progress and meets targets.

What’s Included

  • 4–5 hours of specialised training

  • 1 year’s access to all video and audio content

  • No coursework – accessible, flexible learning

  • Immediate strategies for classrooms, playgrounds and intervention spaces

  • Proven Muddy Puddle Teacher® techniques for SEND and SEMH

  • Real-life examples and demonstrations

  • Simple tools for teachers, TAs, pastoral staff and SENCOs

Course Info

Who This Course Is For

Ideal for professionals supporting:

  • ADHD

  • SEMH

  • Behavioural needs

  • Emotional regulation

  • Trauma-aware practice

  • Play-based interventions

  • Children struggling with classroom learning

Perfect for:

  • Teachers

  • SENCOs

  • Support staff

  • Behaviour mentors

  • Pastoral teams

  • Forest School leaders

  • Outdoor learning leads

  • Senior leaders wanting whole-school impact

The Impact You Will See

Schools and settings who complete this training report:

  • calmer children outdoors and indoors

  • fewer behaviour incidents

  • improved focus and engagement

  • stronger relationships with staff

  • increased confidence and resilience

  • greater emotional vocabulary

  • better transitions between indoor and outdoor learning

  • improved attendance and motivation

  • happier, more regulated children

This course doesn’t just change outdoor learning.
It changes lives, relationships and confidence.

Invest in the Children Who Need It Most

This specialist training empowers you to use the outdoors as a therapeutic, inclusive and academically meaningful space for children with ADHD and SEMH.

Simple. Sustainable. Effective.
The Muddy Puddle Teacher®  way.

Start today and support the children who benefit most from learning beyond the classroom.

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