Nature Educators Weekend Workshop: Teaching in Te Taiao | Christchurch
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Are you an ECE or primary kaiako wanting to feel more confident taking learning outdoors?
Maybe you want to start a Bush Kindy, Forest School, outdoor classroom or regular nature-based EOTC programme, or strengthen something you are already doing.
Teaching in Te Taiao is a practical two-day workshop designed to give you the knowledge, skills and confidence to develop safe, meaningful and engaging outdoor learning in your own setting.
This is the original New Zealand version of Forest School training, developed here in Aotearoa specifically for our ECE and primary education context.
Across the weekend we cover:
🌿 Nature education in an Aotearoa New Zealand context
🌿 Planning and developing your programme
🌿 Risk management, health and safety and group management
🌿 The role of the kaiako and tamariki
🌿 Curriculum links, tikanga and te ao Māori
🌿 Practical skills including fire, tools, knots, shelter building, nature crafts and activities
Whether you are just getting started or already taking tamariki outdoors, the weekend is about helping you build the confidence and practical foundations to make outdoor learning work in your own place and setting.
Climate Action Campus, Christchurch
Saturday 12 September 2026
9am to 5pm
Sunday 13 September 2026
8.30am to 3pm
All-day refreshments, morning tea and afternoon tea provided. Please bring your own lunch.
Accommodation is not provided.
FIND OUT MORE HERE:
https://littlekiwisnatureplay.com/nature-education-workshop/
BOOK HERE:
https://form.jotform.com/little_kiwis/2026-weekend-nature-education
Maybe you want to start a Bush Kindy, Forest School, outdoor classroom or regular nature-based EOTC programme, or strengthen something you are already doing.
Teaching in Te Taiao is a practical two-day workshop designed to give you the knowledge, skills and confidence to develop safe, meaningful and engaging outdoor learning in your own setting.
This is the original New Zealand version of Forest School training, developed here in Aotearoa specifically for our ECE and primary education context.
Across the weekend we cover:
🌿 Nature education in an Aotearoa New Zealand context
🌿 Planning and developing your programme
🌿 Risk management, health and safety and group management
🌿 The role of the kaiako and tamariki
🌿 Curriculum links, tikanga and te ao Māori
🌿 Practical skills including fire, tools, knots, shelter building, nature crafts and activities
Whether you are just getting started or already taking tamariki outdoors, the weekend is about helping you build the confidence and practical foundations to make outdoor learning work in your own place and setting.
Climate Action Campus, Christchurch
Saturday 12 September 2026
9am to 5pm
Sunday 13 September 2026
8.30am to 3pm
All-day refreshments, morning tea and afternoon tea provided. Please bring your own lunch.
Accommodation is not provided.
FIND OUT MORE HERE:
https://littlekiwisnatureplay.com/nature-education-workshop/
BOOK HERE:
https://form.jotform.com/little_kiwis/2026-weekend-nature-education
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Where is it happening?
Climate Action Campus, Ōtautahi, 180 Avonside Dr, Avonside, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand, Christchurch
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Host or PublisherCelia Hogan - Little Kiwis Nature Play
