Nature School at St Patrick's

Spending time in nature promotes a healthy attitude towards sustainability and our natural environment. For children, time outdoors is great for developing physical motor skills, self-confidence and an emotional awareness in the natural world. The activities in the natural environment can also be applied to the national curriculum, whether it’s understanding the properties of shapes, doing science practicals at the fire pit, or learning the meaning of words through woodland stories. The outdoors is in fact the perfect place to see how concepts learnt in the classroom can be applied to the outdoors.

Our Nature School provides direct access to all of this right on our doorstep. Thanks to support from Sellafield Ltd, Arborscape and the TDA, we have created a one of a kind facility in the heart of Cleator Moor. 

At St Patrick's we use our Nature School to:

• Promote self-esteem, creativity, confidence and independence.
• Enhance the existing curriculum and promote creative learning opportunities
• Enable supported risk-taking, child-centred learning, exploration and play.
• Promote team-building and collaboration skills.

AUTUMN TERM 2025     NATURE SESSIONS

This term Year Three and Year Six have been using our fabulous nature area. The children really look forward to these sessions as it is time outside of the classroom where they can spend time with their friends and develop social skills and team building skills. We have learnt new skills such as whittling sticks,  fire lighting and making stone age bread as well as learning how to identify leaves and trees and enjoying lots of crafts and games together.