Trading as Taking Maths Outdoors, teacher Deborah provides flexible and creative outdoor training for teachers and outdoor learning pracitioners as well as engaging and memorable curriculum learning days with children for schools, in Cornwall and beyond.
She is co-author of Bloomsbury's National Curriculum Outdoors – a complete scheme of work series, which has been written with the aim of building teacher confidence; providing step-by-step lessons for every subject for each year group, with a clear focus on progression in skills and knowledge across the units and key stages. The series (with books for Key Stage 1, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6) supports a whole school approach to outdoor learning.
Deborah provided the maths, geography, Art and Design, Design Technology, RE and French units for the series. She also wrote the Y5 history unit and Y6 English and Science units.
The latest (2024) in the series, Sustainability and Climate Change Curriculum Outdoors, provides a handbook for teachers, providing key information and a model science & geography curriculum to be delivered outdoors, with folllow up work in the classroom, fully supporting the National Education Nature Parks programme.
Deborah wrote the UKS2 units and lesson progressions for chapter 5 as well as co-producing Chapter 2: the role of leadership in effecting sustainable change including creating a 3-year plan, the power of children's voices in taking action, and curriculum development, with Michelle Roberts.
Since the publication of the National Curriculum Outdoors series, Deborah has also been a guest speaker and provider of workshops at a variety of events and conferences.
She is chair of the 'Natural Schooling' Research Interest Group (RIG), which meets termly to discuss outdoor learning and provide an international networking opportunity.
As an experienced Level 3 OFQUAL certificated First Aid trainer, Deborah also delivers First Aid courses for Institute for Outdoor Learning Aligned First Aid Providers QNUK and World Class Training, which has provided the opportunity to deliver CPD first aid to Santa's Elves and Rangers in Lapland in 2023!
Additional information
Most recently, Deborah has been a FdA and BAAP lecturer for the Learning Institute (in association with Worcester University) also delivering ITT in outdoor learning to KS1, 2, 3 & 4 trainee teachers. A primary teacher for over 30 years, with experience of EYFS–KS2 in over 30 primary schools, Special Schools at KS1-4, as manager of the Porthpean Outdoor Education Centre 'Playing For Success Centre' and as a lecturer in Further Education and Higher Education in Cornwall and Dorset, Deborah has a wealth of experience in a range of settings and with different age ranges.
Deborah successfully led the Erasmus+ 'Natural Schooling project, which concluded in 2023. The handbook, project evaluation report, lesson plans and a training programme for those wishing to develop a Natural Schooling approach in their own settings (written by Deborah), can be freely downloaded at https://naturalschooling.eu.
Deborah was a network leader for North Cornwall as part of the Natural Connections demonstration project, supporting teachers to embed outdoor learning in schools in Cornwall. The project included over 125 schools across the southwest of England, delivered and evaluated by the University of Plymouth (2012-16).
As a ‘Wild Tribe’ trainer and PE trainer for the ARENA Sports Partnership, Debbie offers outdoor learning sessions for classes in schools throughout Cornwall and Devon, and supports schools wtih INSET training for staff.
She has written and delivered PE schemes of work and maths programmes of study for the Arena Wild Tribe Practitioners award using the medium of Forest School activities to deliver the curriculum outdoors. Debbie has written the Wild Tribe Explorers programme to improve health, wellbeing and behaviour, Wild Tribe leadership programmes for children, including the Wild Tribe Literacy Leader, Wild Tribe Maths Leader, Wild Tribe Rangers and Wild Tribe First Aid for children (to support the DfE RSE and Health requirements).
Drawing on experience of managing the Playing for Success Education centre at Porthpean Outdoor Education centre, Deborah co-authored ‘Children Learning Outside the Classroom; from birth to eleven’ specifically chapter 15: Physical Development, Health and Well-Being: the role of Physical Education in which she offers an insight into the development of emotionally resilient learners through Outdoor and Adventurous activities.
If you are interested in Deborah Lambert providing training and support for your setting or event, use the contact us form below.
Publications:
Waite, S. (2017), Children learning outside the classroom: from birth to eleven, Second edn, SAGE, Los Angeles.
Lambert, D., Roberts, M. & Waite, S. (2020), The National Curriculum Outdoors, Bloomsbury Education, London (series of 5 books KS1, Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6).
Morgan, A, Lambert, D., Roberts, M. & Waite, S. (2024), The Sustainability and Climate Change Curriculum Outdoors, Bloomsbury Education, London.
Lambert, D (2024) Nature Schooling, in Institute of Outdoor Learning, Horizons Issue 104 pp32-33
Lambert, D (2023) Erasmus+ Natural Schooling; using curriculum innovations to improve student outcomes project training programme for teachers. Available online (free download): https://naturalschooling.eu/natural-schooling-training-program/
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