'No Badge Required': A Bucket School approach to support teaching and learning in the outdoors

Spending time in the outdoors has been recognised as having a positive impact on several aspects of children’s lives. Educational settings and practitioners are recognised as being in an ideal position to provide OL opportunities and experiences. Despite the increase in attention towards using the outdoors for teaching and learning over recent years, concerns have been raised about practitioner knowledge of the outdoors. This has led to “experts” rather than teachers providing OL experiences in schools. This potentially undermines teacher expertise and confidence, alongside limiting the opportunities offered by OL. In our chapter, we present a place-responsive, experiential, and hands-on approach to OL, known as ‘Bucket School’. We demonstrate how all teachers can ‘have a go’ with Bucket School, helping them to approach OL with confidence, thereby removing ‘imposter syndrome’ for those involved in teaching and learning in the outdoors.