© Miles Davies.Your partner for nature connection
Through Wilder Schools, Sussex Wildlife Trust partners with your school for 1–3 years to support you in embedding nature connection and outdoor learning across your curriculum, school culture and community.
Please note: Wilder Schools programme for 2026-2027 is fully subscribed. Please check back in December when applications will be open again.
Connection to local blue and green spaces
Discover how nearby wild places can enrich your learners’ experience of the National Curriculum
Walk, wonder, learn, and connect with nature on your doorstep.
Tailored support to explore your local space
Through targeted CPD, INSETs, or modelled sessions with your class, we help you unlock the potential of your local environment and support you to get out into it with confidence.
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© Archie TaplinSite improvement
Bring your school’s climate action plan to life & use it as a learning tool!
Through child-centred consultation, we support you to: Create habitats. Capture rainwater. Grow food. Support pollinators. Every space has potential for wildlife and learners.
We work with you to plan and deliver meaningful steps for biodiversity, adaptation, and resilience
No matter the size of your site, we’ll help you explore improvements that benefit both wildlife and outdoor learning.
Wildflower areas, living walls, dead hedging, ponds, bog gardens, vegetable beds, woodland management – each a chance for children to get involved, learn, and lead.
Outdoor learning and nature connection
Support to embed outdoor learning
Modelled sessions, CPD, and planning support to build confidence, creativity, and curriculum links using your outdoor space.
Spaces for everyday nature connection
Create welcoming, nature-rich spaces that support wellbeing and connection – for your whole school community – beyond the classroom and outside of structured learning time.
© Miles Davies.
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