KEY STAGE 2

Year 6 Programme
Nature Explorer Award

  • Two fully-prepared lessons to support delivery of the Award

  • Children complete a Nature Journal over 4-6 weeks

  • Cross-curricular links

  • Teacher training included

Nature Explorers Award

  • Activity journal

  • Hands on projects

  • Nature connection

Award programme structure:

Two fully-resourced lessons (for teachers to deliver)

Challenge list of suggested activities 

Children complete a nature journal over 4-6 weeks recording:

  • Encounters with local nature

  • Visits to green spaces

  • Personal investigations

  • Actions and reflections

The Programme culminates in a ceremony when children are presented with a certificate and badge

By the end of the programme, our fully-fledged nature explorers will have learned that connecting to nature through their senses (arrow = leads to …) caring for nature (arrow = leads to… ) experiencing gratitude  (arrow = leads to …)  living in harmony with nature (arrows to show flow)

By the end of the programme, our fully-fledged nature explorers will have learned that connecting to nature through their senses (arrow = leads to …) caring for nature (arrow = leads to… ) experiencing gratitude  (arrow = leads to …)  living in harmony with nature (arrows to show flow)

Connecting to nature through their senses

Caring for nature

Experiencing gratitude

Living  more in harmony  with nature

The Bloom Workshop coupled with the Award Scheme was the best extra-curricular provision we have ever done! The workshop leaders were so adaptive and engaging. It was an amazing opportunity for young people  who so often struggle to access the academic curriculum, to learn through experience. (Year 7 SEND lead teacher)


‘In our journals we’ve written about so many things we’ve seen, heard, touched, smelt and tasted…..We’ve thought about how nature is all connected… This project has made topics in geography and science feel real and important…..We’ve learnt so much on this journey. (From the Year 6 pupils assembly presentation)


The Nature Explorers Award is Level One of the Young Conservation Leaders Award

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