Date: Wednesday, May 17th

Location: Henley Surf Life Saving Club

Time: 9am to 3pm. 

Description:  

Early Years and Primary School Educators! Are you looking for inspiration and ideas to engage in more outdoor learning and nature play at your school or site? Our May 17th workshop aims to provide educators with the knowledge, confidence and skills to embrace more outdoor learning and play!

This full-day workshop features a combination of knowledge-based presentations and hands-on practical sessions including:

• • Exploring the importance of sensory play and free play
  • Rich storytelling and bookish learning through nature
  • Building cultural awareness through art with Uncle Tamaru (Kaurna)
  • Knowing and naming the creatures and plants that call your space home
  • Finding next steps to improve your outdoor learning and play environment

Find out how learner wellbeing, connection, and belonging can flourish through nature play and how small shifts to your existing routines and programs can have a big impact on teaching and learning outdoors.

Tickets: $175 + Booking Fee (lunch and morning tea included)

Student: $100 + Booking Fee (lunch and morning tea included) Please Note: Registered higher education student; current photographic University, TAFE or other college ID required on entry.

Who is this for: Early Years and Primary School educators 

Date: Friday, September 8th

Location: Lakeview Room, Adelaide Hills Convention Centre, 145A Mount Barker Rd, Hahndorf

Time: 9am to 3pm. 

Description:  

Nature play goes beyond play spaces – it addresses the needs of the whole child. It considers how we guide and foster student agency, connectedness, wellbeing and belonging. This full day workshop goes beyond the physical aspects of nature play to explore how belonging and agency can be nurtured and developed. It looks at how we view children as capable and competent, place-making, and how to set up successful programs such as beach and bush kindys, productive gardens, and connections to Country through art and language.

This workshop will feature a keynote from the fabulous Lisa Burman, author of a new book titled “A Culture of Agency” which is available in July. 

Early bird tickets: $160 +Booking Fee (lunch and morning tea included)

Tickets after 7th June: $175 +Booking Fee (lunch and morning tea included)

Student: $100 + Booking Fee (lunch and morning tea included) Please Note: Registered higher education student; current photographic University, TAFE or other college ID required on entry.

Who is this for: Early Years and Primary School educators 

Date: 23rd of October, 2023

Where: National Wine Centre, Adelaide

Time: 9am to 5pm. 

Taking Risks for Wellbeing is a call to action. It asks educators, policymakers, health practitioners and services that support families and children to be bold in their approach toward nurturing and maintaining children’s wellbeing. Through provisions for risk-taking in play spaces, as well as in their approach to teaching and learning. Stepping outside the accepted norm to champion wellbeing as a priority.  

It means delving deep into what wellbeing looks like for the whole child. Facilitating action to change or improve school approaches to teaching, learning and play to foster a culture where wellbeing can thrive.  

The Conference will feature two well-known and prominent keynote speakers: Tim Gill (UK), renowned author, speaker, consultant and global advocate for children’s play and mobility; and Madhavi Nawana Parker (Aus), Director of Positive Minds Australia, who is one of Australia’s leading experts on wellbeing and resilience. 

Tickets: $395 + Booking Fee (lunch and morning tea included)

Early bird (until July 31) : $375 + Booking Fee (lunch and morning tea included)

Student: $276.50 + Booking Fee (lunch and morning tea included). Please Note: Registered higher education student; current photographic University, TAFE or other college ID required on entry