5 top tips to nurture teacher wellbeing
5 top tips to nurture teacher wellbeing Teacher wellebing and nurturing your teachers has never been so important. Here are 5 top tips to help teachers feel approeciated in their role. Have a weekly 10 minute chat with each staff member (seperate from a staff...
6 easy ways to set up an outdoor classroom
6 easy ways to set up an outdoor classroom Get FREE resources and train as a Muddy Puddle Teacher at www.themuddypuddleteacher.co.uk/pricing Summary - 6 easy ways to set up an outdoor classroom Setting up an outdoor classroom for your outdoor learning is a great idea...
8 Ways to make your outside spaces more colourful this winter
It is winter time and you look outside and although you know the outside space is so much fun the colours sometimes suit your mood about going out there. So how can you brighten that outside space of yours and turn that frown upside down? Outdoor learning has...
Blog : Muddy Elf (7 Top Tips)
Top 7 Muddy Elf Tips The Muddy Elf is the new way to inspire outdoor learning, imagination and love for their world. Get outside, get muddy and play! To get the Muddy Elf pack sign up 14 days FREE here. The Muddy Elf can be used alongside similar and...
Top 20 things to do in a Muddy Puddle
Top 20 things to do in a Muddy Puddle
BLOG : Fear of Mud
Do you know a child that has a fear of mud?
Differentiation by Muddy Teacher Jacki
Read Muddy Teachers Jacki’s blog on differentiation.
BLOG: Why gardening at school is a must!
By Muddy Teacher Rebecca Butland Why gardening at school is a must! Gardening is something that is usually overlooked in schools, however, there are so many areas of learning it should be incorporated into each day. Some of the things it can help develop are:...
BLOG: Outdoor learning brings a class together
By Muddy Teacher Jessica Habgood Outdoor learning brings a class together It is so easy to stay indoors and allow the children in your class to work through a workbook, a set of sheets or a set of slides. I started my topic on place value with my mixed year 3 and 4...
BlOG: Outdoor Learning: The Future of Education in a Socially Distant Society
Outdoor Learning For many years, schools have viewed Outdoor Learning as an approach to education and as just one of the many ways to do things. With the Coronavirus, all bets are off. Working out how we are going to take learning outside in the UK is now a must....
Outdoor Learning Blog – Kids Learn Better When They’re Muddy
Outdoor Learning Blog Kids Learn Better When They're Muddy In schools, things are changing. With a decades-long legacy of insisting that children can only learn in a formal classroom setting, it would seem that the worm is turning. At The Muddy Puddle Teacher, we’re...
BLOG: Outdoor Learning Safety
Outdoor Learning safety in Primary Schools We take safety very seriously at The Muddy Puddle Teacher and outdoor learning does come with some very different risks to those that are indoors. However, we are not Forest School and we do not promote the use of fire or...
BLOG: Improve wellbeing and go outside! (Outdoor learning)
Improve wellbeing and go outside! Why does going outside improve wellbeing? We move more when we go outside this improves our mood and health, uses excess energy and allows us to relax more when inside. Sensory - touching natural things Healthy germs in mud...
Muddy ways to get your school outdoor learning confident
outdoor learning confident Have a staff meeting about what clothes are needed for you and your staff to be comfortable outside. Are you going to fund this? Or put wellies and all-in-one suits on the uniform list? What about the staff, can they bring in spare fleeces,...
Replace the playdough with claydough! (Outdoor Learning)
Replace the playdough with claydough! This is why early years teachers are doing fiddly finger work than ever. I have seen fiddle draws, fiddle cupboards, finger gym, fine finger time and lots more different initiatives to bring this skill on. What air-drying clay do...
Ofsted & Outdoor Learning
Ofsted & Outdoor Learning. Our approach is an extension of the inside and we do not see outdoor learning as a separate entity and this is where our success lies and schools like our approach so much. This not only makes it manageable it makes our approach useful...
Plastic-free teaching (Outdoor Learning)
Want to move towards a plastic-free teaching career? The Muddy Puddle Teacher Approach approach is moving fast. We are constantly evolving while always keeping focused on our three Muddy M’s to better help indoor education through the outdoors. Muddy Mental...
Outdoor Learning Funding
The Muddy Puddle Teacher - Outdoor Learning Funding Funding your outdoor learning journey is important and this page will help you to raise funds using your local communities as support. Hold a 'Muddy Puddles Day' and ask children to come in outdoor gear. All bring £1...
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.