Get started with the Nature Park

Here’s a quick start guide to get going with the programme in a few easy steps!

Get to know your way around the website

The Nature park 5 step cycle

Take a look at the how it works page

Click here to learn about the 5-step process you can use to do Nature Park in your setting.

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Explore the resource library

Click here to find resources for your learners by key stage, subject or by using our curated packages.

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Or begin with our getting started package

Click here to find our getting started package, full of activities for learners at the start of the Nature Park journey.

Get outside with learners and put your site on the map

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Create your site boundary

Click here to put your setting on our England-wide map of schools, colleges and nurseries mapping their habitats.

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Start habitat mapping

Understand your starting point with this essential first step in your Nature Park journey. Start habitat mapping.

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Write a vision statement with learners

Click here to find our activity to help you and learners to imagine what you want to see in your school, college or nursery.

Let everyone know you are part of something huge!

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Share your involvement on social media

Click here to find all the ways you can share what's been going on at your school with Nature Park.

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Do a Nature Park assembly

Click here to find assembly materials to get your whole school involved in your Nature Park journey.

Grimes Dyke Primary School's Nature Park vision statement

Share your vision statement with us

Click here to send us your vision statement, or email it to us at [email protected]