Where the wild ones learn curriculum, Peterborough (2026)

15/01/2026

🌿 Did you know…

When you sign up for any of our full accreditations, you’ll receive all future full accreditations at HALF PRICE 🎉
(Workshops not included — but they’re amazing too!)

Here’s what’s coming up:

🌱 FULL ACCREDITATIONS

🌿 Where the Wild Ones Learn Accreditation
A deep dive into schema-led, trauma-informed, nature-connected pedagogy.
Perfect for educators who want to lead with heart, strategy, and wild wisdom.
Available now • Starts April 2026

🌿 Gardening with Children: Cultivating Knowledge from Seed to Plate
Explore how growing food supports learning, wellbeing, and curriculum outcomes — from sensory play to sustainability.
Sign-up opens October • Starts January 2027

🌳 Roots of Growth: Child Development Through Nature & Play
Understand how outdoor environments support emotional regulation, cognitive development, and inclusive practice.
Sign-up opens December • Starts March 2027

🌼 WORKSHOPS COMING THIS YEAR
🌱 Little Hands, Big Impact
Embedding sustainability in early years practice — practical, inspiring, and ready to implement.
Pre-order now!

🌿 Inclusive Practice
Meeting Ofsted’s new framework with confidence, compassion, and clarity.
Coming soon

🌼 Playful Literacy & Numeracy
Embedding learning through play — joyful, effective, and developmentally rich.
Coming soon

✨ Whether you’re just starting out or deepening your practice, we’re here to support your journey with resources that feel magical, meaningful, and manageable.

📩 DM us to join or ask questions!

14/01/2026

🌿 Ready to Become the Educator You Know You’re Meant to Be?

What if 2026 was the year you stopped second‑guessing yourself…
and stepped into a pedagogy that feels brave, grounded, and wildly child‑centred?

The Where the Wild Ones Learn Accreditation is now open — and it’s already transforming the way educators lead, plan, observe, and advocate.

This isn’t another course.
It’s a movement.
A deep remembering.
A return to practice that honours children, honours nature, and honours you.

✨ Inside the Accreditation, you’ll learn how to:
Design learning that follows children’s schemas, stories, and sensory needs

Build emotionally safe, trauma‑informed environments

Confidently communicate your pedagogy to parents, leaders, and inspectors

Create nature‑rich, curiosity‑led experiences that actually work

Lead with clarity, courage, and a strong professional identity

🌱 Who is it for?
Educators, childminders, leaders, forest school practitioners, and anyone who wants to root their practice in respectful, relational, nature‑based learning.

🔥 Why now?
Because the first cohort is already filling.
Because your practice deserves to feel aligned.
Because children deserve educators who feel empowered, not overwhelmed.

🌟 Join the Accreditation and step into your next chapter.
If your heart is beating a little faster reading this… that’s your sign

https://jodie-s-site-e84d.thinkific.com/products/courses/unlock-childs-potential

13/01/2026

The children have absolutely loved having chickens again. They were all so sad when we lost our last flock to a fox at the end of last year, so welcoming new life back into our space has felt really special.

We collected eight new rescue hens just after New Year, and they already seem so much happier — feathers growing back, little personalities emerging, and slowly getting used to the children’s gentle presence.

Watching the children with them has been gorgeous. They’re learning:

🌱 Compassion — understanding that these hens have had a hard start and need kindness, patience, and calm bodies.

🐓 Responsibility — feeding, checking for eggs, refreshing water, and noticing what the chickens need.

🔍 Observation skills — spotting new feathers, changes in behaviour, and the differences between each hen.

💬 Communication — using soft voices, reading animal cues, and working together to care for the flock.

🌍 Life cycles & nature — seeing first hand how animals grow, heal, and adapt.

❤️ Empathy & emotional resilience — holding space for the sadness of losing our last flock and the joy of beginning again.

It’s been a beautiful reminder that children thrive when they’re trusted with real, meaningful care. And these little rescue hens seem just as grateful for the love.

13/01/2026

🌿✨ FOR JUST £30 A MONTH… YOUR OUTDOOR PROVISION CAN CHANGE FOREVER

The Wild Ones Accreditation — Enrolment Open Now
If you’ve been wanting to deepen your outdoor learning practice…
If you’ve been craving confidence, clarity and a framework that actually works…
If you know children deserve more nature, more freedom, more connection…

Then this is your moment.

For £30 a month for 5 months, you can join the Wild Ones Accreditation — a transformational programme that will completely reshape the way you teach, lead, parent or support children outdoors.

This isn’t a course you “tick off.”
It’s a mindset shift, a practice shift, and a provision shift.

🌱 What This Accreditation Will Do For You
Give you a deep understanding of child development, schemas, nature‑based learning and trauma‑informed practice

Help you design rich, meaningful outdoor experiences that actually support learning

Build your confidence to lead sessions with purpose, intention and calm

Transform your provision into something aligned, magical and developmentally sound

Connect you with a community of educators and families who care as deeply as you do

Provide a framework you can use in Forest School, early years, home‑ed, childminding, primary settings and community groups

🌿 Why People Are Signing Up
Because they’re tired of guessing.
Tired of feeling unsure.
Tired of wanting to do more outdoors but not knowing where to start.

They want:
✨ A clear structure
✨ A deeper understanding of children
✨ A nature‑based approach rooted in real developmental science
✨ A qualification that elevates their practice
✨ A community that lifts them up
✨ A way to bring joy, curiosity and connection back into learning

And they want to feel proud of the provision they offer.

💛 If you’ve been waiting for a sign — this is it
For the price of a takeaway each week, you can completely transform your outdoor learning practice and join a movement that’s changing childhood for the better.

£30 a month. 5 months. A lifetime of impact.

Sign up now to join April intake https://jodie-s-site-e84d.thinkific.com/products/courses/unlock-childs-potential

Let’s build something wild, meaningful and unforgettable together.

12/01/2026

❄️✨ THE ARCTIC NATURE STUDY IS HERE!

A magical winter learning adventure for curious, wild-hearted children
If your little explorers love snow, animals, icy worlds and BIG questions, this Nature Study is going to light them up.

We’ve created a beautifully rich, hands‑on Arctic pack filled with:

🐾 Polar animal investigations
❄️ Ice exploration
🌬️ Sensory play
🎨 Creative art + craft projects inspired by the frozen north
🌌 Stories, poems and sensory play invitations
🧭 Geography, habitats, survival + seasonal learning
🌿 Outdoor activities for Forest School + home‑ed adventures

This isn’t a worksheet pack.
It’s a whole-body, whole-heart, whole-brain learning journey into one of the most extraordinary ecosystems on Earth.

Perfect for:
✨ Early years
✨ KS1 + KS2
✨ Home‑ed families
✨ Forest School groups
✨ Parents who want meaningful, nature-rich learning at home
✨ Educators who want ready-made, high-quality activities

💙 Why children LOVE this study
Because it’s immersive.
Because it’s magical.
Because it makes learning feel like an expedition.

They’ll build, create, explore, investigate, imagine and discover — all while developing real scientific understanding and deep respect for the natural world.

❄️ AVAILABLE NOW
Grab your Arctic Nature Study today and bring the frozen north to life in your home, classroom or woodland.

https://payhip.com/b/zoa2h

Let’s make winter learning unforgettable

12/01/2026

🌈✨ NORA AND THE WHIRLY BRAIN — AVAILABLE NOW!

Our very first children’s book is officially on its way to you!
We’ve just received our third proof copy… and this time, it’s perfect.
After months of tweaking colours, adjusting layouts, and making sure every page feels magical, Nora and the Whirly Brain has finally been signed off for printing.

To everyone who pre‑ordered — thank you for your patience.
Your copies are now in production and will be landing with you very soon.

And for everyone who’s been waiting to grab theirs…
It’s officially AVAILABLE NOW.

💛 About the Book
Nora and the Whirly Brain is a gentle, empowering story for children who feel big feelings, busy thoughts, and whirly‑swirly moments inside their minds.

Follow Nora as she discovers:
🌪️ What a “whirly brain” feels like
🌱 How to slow down, breathe, and find calm
💛 That her feelings aren’t “too much” — they’re part of being wonderfully human
🌈 And that she is never alone in her big emotions

It’s a story filled with warmth and understanding, — perfect for home‑ed families, early years settings, parents, teachers, and anyone supporting children’s emotional wellbeing.

📚 Why We Wrote It
Because children deserve stories that help them feel seen.
Because emotional literacy starts with language and connection.
Because every child with a busy, beautiful brain deserves to know they are enough.

The book is about how I (Jodie) felt growing up and sometimes still do when the dragon appears.

✨ AVAILABLE NOW
If you’ve been waiting to order your copy, now’s the moment.
If you’ve already ordered — your book is coming very soon.

Buy here https://payhip.com/b/tMiVe

12/01/2026

🌿 THE WILD ONES ACCREDITATION 2026 IS OPEN
For educators, parents, Forest School leaders & home‑ed families who want MORE for children.
If you believe childhood should be wild, joyful, connected and rooted in nature, this is your sign.

This accreditation gives you:
🔥 A powerful framework for child‑led, nature‑based learning
🌱 Trauma‑informed, schema‑rich practice you can use anywhere
🌍 A community of people who care as deeply as you do
💡 Confidence to lead, teach or parent with clarity and purpose

This isn’t just training.
It’s a movement.

Spaces are limited for depth and community.

Drop a 🌿 or comment “ACCREDITATION” to join the 2026 cohort.

Let’s change childhood — together, bravely, beautifully.

09/01/2026

🌿 “Let the wild ones lead…” 🌿

Today we shared something close to our hearts — a glimpse into the way children learn when nature is their classroom and connection is their guide.

This video captures the magic: children exploring freely, hands in the soil, eyes full of wonder — while our poem about the Where the Wild Ones Learn Academy accreditation whispers over the top.

Because this isn’t just play.
It’s deep, developmental learning.
It’s safety, schemas, sensory joy.
It’s the kind of practice we want to see everywhere.

Our accreditation pathway is now open — for educators, childminders, and settings who want to root their practice in nature, relationship, and child-led wonder.

If this speaks to your soul, come walk with us.
Let’s grow something beautiful together 🌱✨

🎓 Learn more about our accreditation: https://jodie-s-site-e84d.thinkific.com/products/courses/unlock-childs-potential

08/01/2026

🌱 Seed-Sowing Season Has Begun! 🌱

Today we kicked off our very first allotment planting of the year, and what a joyful start it was. January is such an important month for getting seeds going, so the children rolled up their sleeves and planted tomatoes, peppers, onions and strawberries.

Over the next few months, we’ll keep these little seedlings cosy indoors, watching them sprout and grow. When they’re big and strong, we’ll pot them on, and once the last frost has passed, we’ll take them to the allotment where the children will help nurture them until they’re ready to harvest and enjoy.

Alongside the hands-on planting, the children also explored the life cycle and anatomy of some of the plants using our Where the Wild Ones Learn printables. They loved matching roots, stems, leaves and fruit, and seeing how a tiny seed transforms through each stage of growth. It helped them make sense of what they were doing with their hands — turning practical gardening into meaningful, connected learning.

And while it may look like simple gardening, the learning woven into this process is huge:

🌿 Patience & Care – Seeds don’t grow overnight. Children learn to wait, observe and tend to something over time.
🌿 Responsibility – Watering, checking, noticing changes… they take ownership and feel proud of their role.
🌿 Understanding Life Cycles – From seed to plate, they see the full journey of how food grows.
🌿 Scientific Thinking – Using our printables, they explored plant anatomy, compared seeds, and talked about what plants need to thrive.
🌿 Healthy Eating Connections – Growing their own food makes them far more excited to taste it.
🌿 Emotional Development – Nurturing something living builds empathy, confidence and a sense of achievement.
🌿 Environmental Awareness – They learn where food comes from and why caring for the earth matters.

It’s slow, meaningful, real-world learning — and the children absolutely loved it. Here’s to a year of growing, tending and tasting together 🌱✨

Our Nature studies are full of amazing facts, printables and activities to support learning with nature check them out!

https://payhip.com/WheretheWildOnesLearn

08/01/2026

🌿✨ ARE YOU READY TO TRANSFORM YOUR OUTDOOR LEARNING IN 2026? ✨🌿

Have you been wanting to:
🌱 Improve your outdoor learning offer
🌱 Bring deeper meaning to children’s play
🌱 Feel confident explaining exactly what children are learning outdoors — even when it looks like “just free play”?

Then you’re in the right place.

Because outdoor play IS deep learning — and our brand‑new Where the Wild Ones Learn Accreditation will show you exactly how to see it, support it, and articulate it with confidence.

🌿 WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
✨ How to understand and identify play schemas — the architecture of the developing brain
✨ How to map outdoor play to learning outcomes in a way that feels natural, holistic, and child‑led
✨ How to support children’s emotional regulation through nature‑based, sensory‑rich practice
✨ How to design outdoor environments that nurture curiosity, resilience, and wellbeing
✨ How to speak confidently to parents, inspectors, and colleagues about the real learning happening outdoors

This isn’t just training.
It’s a mindset shift.
A new way of seeing children, play, and learning.

🔥 NEARLY 50 EDUCATORS HAVE ALREADY SIGNED UP — AND OUR INTRODUCTORY OFFERS ARE ALMOST GONE

🌟 First 50 spaces: 50% OFF (last few remaining)
🌟 Next 50: 25% OFF
🌟 Pay‑monthly options available to make joining accessible

Be part of the very first cohort launching April 2026 — the founding group who will shape the future of this movement.

✨ If you’re ready to elevate your practice and bring deeper meaning to outdoor play… this is your moment.
Your children deserve this.
Your practice deserves this.
And you deserve to feel confident, inspired, and empowered.

👉 Enrol today and step into a new way of teaching, leading, and learning.
https://jodie-s-site-e84d.thinkific.com/products/courses/unlock-childs-potential

07/01/2026

❄️ Snowy adventures at the allotment! ❄️

We’ve been out exploring this week and the children had the best time spotting animal prints in the snow. We found chicken, bird, fox, and even cat tracks weaving their way around the allotment.

If your little ones love discovering clues and following footprints, our Winter Nature Study is packed with even more ways to explore.
There’s a Poo ID section (always a favourite!) plus heaps of seasonal activities to help you make the most of winter wanderings.

A perfect way to turn cold days into magical, curiosity-filled adventures

https://payhip.com/b/xOa81

07/01/2026

🌿💚 WHEN CHILDREN TURN WOOD INTO WONDER — SCHEMA SPOTLIGHT 💚🌿

Today at the allotment, the children found a pile of wood… and what happened next was pure, beautiful learning.

They worked together to move the planks.
They problem‑solved.
They negotiated.
And then — completely child‑led — they used several pieces to build their very own seesaw.

To an adult, it might look like “just playing with wood.”
But underneath it all, this was deep developmental work.

🧺 TRANSPORTING SCHEMA
Carrying heavy planks, moving them from one place to another, organising materials…
This strengthens:
✨ Executive function
✨ Planning + sequencing
✨ Working memory
✨ Spatial reasoning

Every trip back and forth was wiring their brains for problem‑solving.

🌀 TRAJECTORY SCHEMA
Lifting, balancing, tipping, rocking — all of this is BIG movement.
It supports:
✨ Core strength
✨ Balance
✨ Coordination
✨ Understanding force + motion

The seesaw became a physics lesson disguised as play.

🧩 CONNECTING & CONSTRUCTING
Choosing which planks to use, testing angles, adjusting weight…
This builds:
✨ Engineering thinking
✨ Cause + effect
✨ Collaboration
✨ Creative problem‑solving

They weren’t “just building” — they were designing, testing, refining.

🤝 SOCIAL + EMOTIONAL LEARNING
Working as a team meant:
💛 Negotiating roles
💛 Listening to each other
💛 Taking turns
💛 Feeling proud of what they created together

This is the heart of early years learning — connection, confidence, and community.

🌿 THIS is why child-led learning matters.
When we step back, children show us exactly what they’re ready for.
Schemas guide them.
Nature provides the materials.
And we get to witness the magic.

🌟 Want to learn how to recognise schemas, map learning, and confidently explain moments like this?
Our Where the Wild Ones Learn Accreditation teaches you exactly that.

If you want to feel empowered, inspired, and deeply confident in your practice, this journey is for you.

👉 Comment ACCREDITATION and I’ll send you the details

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