Engaging Educators to take their learning outdoors

Expert Guidance

With 19 years of education outdoor experience, across secondary, primary, tertiary and early years, Jarrod has the capabilities and expertise to take your educational program to the next level; the outdoors. At BushPlay Project, we combine our insights and skills to transform your processes and strategies, and in turn, your organisations approach to education outdoors. We’re proud to help shape and improve how children are connecting with nature and facilitate the growth of your BushPlay program.

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Consultancy

By the hour, half day or full day. He can visit your location and brainstorm with you how a BushPlay Program could be implemented in your setting and introduce different products that may suit.

Programs Wild Things Setup Guide - purchase a license to use this guide and also consider including mentoring from Jarrod Paine to assist in the startup of your very own Bush Playgroup.

BushPlay Kindergarten Program - purchase a license to use the Jumpstarter Kit to get you program planned and thought about, and consider further engaging Jarrod Paine to mentor you through the programs startup. Staff Training Already have a program and want to train more staff into its use or add more spark to the curriculum delivery? Engage Jarrod Paine to complete field training with you or your staff.

Background

The BushPlay Project was founded organically through different influences and experiences. I have been largely inspired and motivated by the successful documentary, “Project Wild Things” coupled with my own work/parenting opportunity of taking my children outdoors, daily. I initially founded Wild Things (pre-school informal bush-play group), as a pre-school aged experience where I lead children and their parents on bush play experiences; location specific, with tailored naturalist themes and with utmost safety of participants in mind. It’s now named “Kiewa Wild Things” and is a registered playgroup with Playgroup Victoria and is hugely successful and popular.  From this experience I have created The BushPlay Project and subsequently the Wild Things Bush Playgroup Setup Guide and BushPlay Kindergarten Programs based on my almost 2 decades of working and educating in the outdoors and a drive to create more access for more children to gain vital connections with nature.

As a consultant on this growth potential he brings:

• A passionate and infectious learning atmosphere to all my interactions

• A Degree in Outdoor Education and Graduate Diploma in teaching.

• 19 years of education outdoors experience with students aged 11-19 and resulting high expertise of outdoor teaching pedagogy.

• 19 years of managing risk in the outdoors and assessing and writing risk management plans.

• 19 years of curriculum linked learning, using the outdoors as my classroom.

• 5 years of developing specialised Early Years BushPlay Programs