Outdoor Learning & Coronavirus

Outdoor Learning & Coronavirus

Outdoor learning  & coronavirus It has been an incredibly difficult year for teachers. A fact.  Change is something teachers are used to but this was something very unforeseen.  I for one am so very, very proud of each and every one of you out there...

Outdoor Learning Trust

Outdoor Learning Trust

Outdoor learning trust?  Outdoor learning has long gone overlooked.  However the 2019 COVID epidemic started to put outdoor learning on the map.  Teachers started to look at going outside as the best way to manage and the only way to have parents watch...

Institute for outdoor learning UK

Institute for outdoor learning UK

Institute for outdoor learning uk We are delighted to be doing a blog post on institute for outdoor learning uk. It was back in 2010 that I visited by first institute for outdoor learning conference.  I was so excited to be there.  I got to see and meet...

Christmas Party Games – The Muddy Way!

Christmas Party Games – The Muddy Way!

Christmas Party Games - The Muddy Way!  Take your Christmas party games outside this year with these FREE muddy ideas from the outdoor learning experts at The Muddy Puddle Teacher.  Sing around the Christmas Tree First make sure you have a Christmas tree...

Christmas Games – the Muddy Way!

Christmas Games – the Muddy Way!

Christmas Games  Take your Christmas games outside this year with these FREE muddy ideas from the outdoor learning experts at The Muddy Puddle Teacher.  Circle time games  For these games ask the children to hold hands and make a circle. This game is...

Christmas Crafts for Kids

Christmas Crafts for Kids

Christmas Crafts for Kids  Christmas time is best done when you remove all the money, shiny things and expensive toys.  Kids play more with the box than they do the toy and it is so true. We are The Muddy Puddle Teacher and we are a new approach to outdoor...

Five free Outdoor Christmas Ideas

Five free Outdoor Christmas Ideas

Five free Outdoor Christmas Ideas Getting the children outside in all weathers is really important for their mental and physical health and wellbeing. Plus it's really educational too and gets you and your child talking.  Here are our five free Outdoor Christmas...

Deep Dive Go Outside!

Deep Dive Go Outside!

Deep Dive Go Outside! Diving in deeper, mastery, challenge more.  There are lots of buzz words flying around that ultimately want the same thing, to ensure the child has fully understood that area of the curriculum by presenting it to them in different ways. But have...

Outdoor Science Day 10th March

Outdoor Science Day 10th March

Muddy Science Day 10th March 2020 Lots of your Science curriculum belongs outside! Yet many of us still keep to the tradition of working from schemes of work, worksheets and booklets. But have you tried embracing the Science that is out there? Science is an...

Describe and compare the structure of animals – take it outside!

Describe and compare the structure of animals – take it outside!

Describe and compare the structure of animals - take it outside!  Typically an area that most teachers would teach inside the Muddy Teachers love to do this outside. Describing and comparing the structure of animals typically is a worksheet kind of thing but...

Improve wellbeing in your school by doing more Outdoor Learning

Improve wellbeing in your school by doing more Outdoor Learning

Improve wellbeing in your school by doing more Outdoor Learning  Wellbeing has to be on every educators agenda.  First and foremost it is the children's confidence and overall happiness that is paramount. If the children do not feel good then how can we...

Use Outdoor Learning to support SEND

Use Outdoor Learning to support SEND

Use Outdoor Learning to support SEND  Outdoor learning is a fabulous and often overlooked teaching method.  Many teachers consider their indoor approach and what methods and schemes they use but many see the outside space as merely there or playtimes and...

Outdoor Learning at Christmas

Outdoor Learning at Christmas

Outdoor Learning at Christmas  It is cold out there ist it? But isn't there something special in that?  There is nothing more lovely than being out in the cold and coming into the warm.  It gives us memories, experiences and by observing that as a...

Outdoor Learning helps practical learners

Outdoor Learning helps practical learners

Outdoor Learning helps practical learners It is true!  You have a class full of children that learn differently. So how do you adapt your teaching to support all the children's needs without tiring yourself out?  It is simple…..you take more of your lessons outside...

5 tips to have the best Muddy Puddle Christmas in Early Years

5 tips to have the best Muddy Puddle Christmas in Early Years

5 tips to have the best Muddy Puddle Christmas in Early Years  Mud and early years go hand in hand so why not add some Christmas cheer into that perfect mix. The Muddy Puddle Teacher approach works on well being and raising confidence.  The neutral space of...

Give the trees some Cheer this Christmas!

Give the trees some Cheer this Christmas!

Give the trees some Cheer this Christmas and get outside and spend time with the children to decorate them.  The Muddy Puddle Teachers are thrifty characters.  We see the value in everything and sometimes using what you have around you creates just as much of a joyful...

5 top ways to get Older Kids Outside

5 top ways to get Older Kids Outside

5 top ways to get Older Kids Outside - Outdoor learning is often associated with younger children and there is no reason for that to be the case.  Older children need just as much of an excuse to get outside as the younger children do.  If anything the older...

BLOG: Outdoor Learning at Home Ideas

BLOG: Outdoor Learning at Home Ideas

Outdoor Learning at Home can often be somewhat a drain if the child has been at their desk all day.  So why not try some of our favourite activities to do with children of junior age and KS2 to get them outside and enjoying being active and child-like. ...

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Outdoor learning training

The Muddy Puddle Teacher Approach has everything you need to be a successful outdoor practitioner. 

 

So what exactly does that look like? 

 

  • We save you time by training you to use only natural and recycled materials.  This way there is little to no prep or clear away. To view our training head this way. 
  • There is nothing more to be bought once you are trained on our approach. 
  • You are going to save your school money because this approach is infectious.  You will start looking at your waste inside the classroom too! The institute for outdoor learning uk have some great articles on this. 
  • We connect you with like-minded people, we want you to know you are understood and appreciated with us and know that there are others around you just the same. 
  • As well as inspiring you, training you, supporting you.  We also provide you with hundreds of pick up resources that will give you ideas to take your learning outside.  No worksheets allowed! 

 

Many of you may have turned to us to search for – outdoor learning coronavirus- we can help massively with this and maybe it was time for a change anyway? To sign up and join The Muddy Puddle Teachers head this way.

 

To sign up and join The Muddy Puddle Teachers head this way.