School Visits

Children can learn outdoors whatever the weather, all they need are their boots!​

The Kids in Boots education programme covers major areas of the curriculum including science, geography, maths and english; using fun, practical outdoor activities in your school grounds – all delivered by a highly experienced and knowledgeable educator.

Every session is risk assessed and can be tailored to your school’s needs. If you are looking for something different to enhance your pupils’ outdoor experience, read on for fire lighting and team building activities. Download the PDF brochure here.

Early Years

Magic Potions

Explore colours, textures, smells, sounds, shapes and sizes. This adventure will stimulate the senses and the imagination as children become wizards and fairies to find magical natural ingredients, say the magic spell and make their potion bubble over!

Bug Explorers

Take young ones out into the wild world of mini-beasts in this outdoor adventure. Children will hunt for mini-beasts in different hiding places to learn where they live and how many legs they have. Children can explore how they move by wiggling and jiggling in a mini-beast dance.

Key Stage 1

Habitat Discovery

Pupils will work scientifically to explore micro-habitats for mini-beasts and signs of other animals living there. Pupils can also make their own mini-beast home in a bug hotel craft activity to place in their newly discovered bug habitat or to take home.

Growing Gardeners

Budding scientists will learn about plants and what they need to grow. They will go on a tree and plant treasure hunt to identify different types and discover why they live there. Children can also collect plant parts to stick onto paper butterflies to create scientific artwork for your classroom.

Key Stage 2

Animal Classification

What hides in the nooks and crannies of your school? Pupils will be guided through a voyage of invertebrate discovery by working scientifically to hunt for mini-beasts and identifying and grouping them using a classification key. They will also explore different animal groups and what makes them unique.

Rock Stars

This ride into rock stardom includes a musical introduction to the igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rock groups. Pupils will use their scientific enquiry skills to identify different rocks and fossils and even make a volcano erupt! (2 hour session includes conducting fair tests for hardness and permeability.)

Follow That Tree!

Pupils will enhance their investigation skills by using tree identification charts to observe trees and put their skills to the test by making their own tree classification key. Using their maths skills, pupils will also learn a simple method of estimating how tall and how old a tree is.

Seeds, Shoots and Roots

What do plants need to grow and thrive? How are flowering plants pollinated and how are their seeds dispersed? All these questions are answered as pupils conduct their own seed sorting exercise, explore your grounds in our tree and plant treasure hunt and make a scientific piece of art work by collecting plant parts on a butterfly to make a display in your class.

Back to Basics...

Forest School Survivors

Kids in Boots offers Forest School programmes or one off taster sessions for all ages. I’m a fully qualified instructor with Level 3 FS practitioner training and have a wealth of experience in bushcraft skills. Activities include fire lighting, outdoor cooking, woodland crafts, tool use and more to help your children survive in the wild, whilst gaining valuable learning skills in nature!

The ins and outs...

Kids in Boots offers an outreach education programme which aims to motivate children in their own learning in their own school grounds. This offer is an opportunity to extend pupils’ curriculum based learning to outside the classroom and to enhance their scientific and personal skills in an exciting and memorable way. Sessions are designed to be so fun and educational at the same time that children don’t even realise they are learning!

I’m Deb and this is my own business venture. After finishing my university degree in Environmental Management and 7 years working in the environmental sector, I moved on to outdoor work and have now had 14 years experience in the environmental education industry developing and delivering environmental themed sessions to thousands of school children each year for charities such as WWT, Groundwork South and Thames21 in their education centres, local parks and in schools.

I am so excited to have this offer available to schools who value broadening their children’s learning experience in the outdoors.

We start with a pre-visit meeting before the day to discuss your school’s requirements including activities, timings and the risk assessment, and tailor these to meet your school’s needs.

The schedule is flexible with 4x one hour sessions or 5x shorter sessions in a full day. Each session can accommodate up to 30 pupils (max 15 children for Forest School sessions). Options available for half day visits.

Specialist equipment will be provided for activities. 

Some sessions require a nature garden, green space with trees, or simply an area of ground with any combination of soil, leaf litter, rotting wood, loose rocks or bricks. If you don’t have these spaces, don’t worry, we can look at capitalising on what spaces you have available. There may also be an option to take your class to your local park. Please ask for more information.

The schedule is flexible with 4x one hour sessions or 5x shorter sessions in a full day. Each session can accommodate up to 30 pupils (max 15 children for Forest School sessions). Options available for half day visits.

Sessions are available all year round. Please get in touch with your preferred dates and I will do my very best to accommodate your preference.

£180 for a full day (£150 for each additional full day if part of the same booking).

£120 for half day (maximum 3 hour booking, £100 for each additional half day if part of the same booking).

The cost includes the activities plus a pre-visit meeting before the day.

  • North West London
  • West London
  • South West London

This includes schools in Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington & Chelsea, Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton, Wandsworth and Surrey.

No school is excluded if outside the area, there may simply be an extra travel cost involved, please do get in touch.

Please get in touch via the contact form, email or phone call to start your school’s outdoor adventure!