About

We build emotional intelligence and emotional health in Children and Families through engaging learners in the natural world, learning by being and doing.

We develop Independent and Inter-Dependent Learners

  • Passion-Based Learning
  • Experiential Learning
  • Self-Initiated Learning
  • Challenge Based Learning 

  • Cultivating & tending Country
  • Natural Childhood
  • Nature as Teacher
  • Parents as Guides
  • Play as Learning

We are a mobile service, nomadically active between several unique landmarks of Ballina and Byron Shire. 100% in the elements without any ceilings or walls.

What Parents say about our gathering lessons..

“The best way to start our week is to follow along to the nature playgroups, it really sets us for a positive start and stays with us the whole week.”

“I have gained close friendships and made really good connections with other families thanks to these programs. And I learn every week more about myself and our neigbourhood while connecting deeply with my nonstop toddler”

“Our kids, love love the Bush kindy Program”

We love this as part of our homeschooling journey and have met many families to join this wise, wild path of self learning in nature.

Wise Earth Bush School’s Goals and Aspirations

  • Act responsibly towards ourselves, our friends, the land, the plants & animals
  • Inspire connection, relationship, embracing and celebrating children
  • Develop experience that empower an inner flowering, inner revolution
  • A family friendly learning enterprise

The forest school concept dates back over 60 years and recognises the fundamental human need for connection to the Earth, as well as the growing body of research to support the benefits of outdoor free-play for young children. Forest schools are part of a rapidly growing global movement to combat modern symptoms of “nature deficit disorder.” They also are a way to off-set the detriment caused by risk-averse parenting styles and the unrealistic academic expectations society has placed on young learners.

At Wise Earth Bush School, we support “re-wild parenting.” We help to meet kids’ hardwired biological expectation to exist as tiny explorers, carers, scientists and artists. By experiencing all seasons and weather, experimenting with creativity, mingling with local plants and animals, learning through mixed-age socialisation, guided by their own pace of learning and supported by strong and loving boundaries, we ensure that each child will truly make the world a better place for themselves, and generations to come.

OUTDOOR LEARNING
NATURE DISCOVERY
COMMUNITY CONNECTION