Really Wild Academy

Ignite, inspire, achieve!

At Really Wild, we we don’t just teach bushcraft and run activities on class topics or the curriculum!

We also use bushcraft and wilderness skills to develop pupil performance and wellbeing in the most inspiring and exciting of ways. Our professional staff and proven methodology for success regularly deliver positively life changing results – for pupils and teachers alike.

Earning her stripes during a rite of passage celbration. This young lady is beaming with pride!

“A life changing experience! I was challenged to step out of my comfort zone and into an experience that I believe will make an amazing mark on my life forever.” Amanda L. – Secondary School Student

Really Wild has operated now for over 10 years, in classrooms, on school fields, in our beautiful woodlands and in the arctic, jungles and mountains of the world.

What Teachers Say

  • Builds pupil confidence
  • Greatly aids transition between years/key stages and schools
  • Enhances student motivation
  • Improves academic performance
  • Allows those less well adapted to the school environment to thrive e.g. SEN, EAL
  • Instills helpfulness and develops teamwork
  • Develops respect
  • Improves personal discipline
  • Develops leadership skills

Children from all years at Springfield have been lucky enough to experience bush craft sessions with the Really Wild team. The children love the excitement…The great thing about the sessions is the fact that staff and children work together…is not only educational but gives all children the confidence and self esteem to achieve.

Becky Wycherley – Head Teacher, Springfield School

“The Really Wild team certainly delivered! Our students grew as individuals and as a group.” Ollie Nicholls Outdoor Learning – Ravens Wood School

“Having Really Wild work with us year after year is a highlight in our school’s calendar and gives both children and staff in our school a wonderful experience that is not forgotten. They bring our topics to life and cater for all types of learners. As a teacher, it’s great to see how the children interact and really shine – often those children that you wouldn’t necessarily expect to, which makes the whole experience even more special.”

Joe Harvey – Year Head at West Park School

Activity Days

  • Inspiring stories
  • Young People learning about wildlife and surviving from one of the Really Wild Instructors. Nev is describing how important it is to stay hydrated and to keep your water clean and safe.
    Wild foods
  • Animal behaviours & habitats
  • Teamwork
  • Children folding up a tarpaulin ready to use next time. Being careful with equipment is essential when in a survival situation.
    Problem solving
  • Child Day Ticket for Event. Practising spear throwing as part of the primitive weapons class
    Primitive technologies

School Camps

  • Two home educated young people enjoying the freedom to explore and learn new skills
    Bonding
  • One happy and successful group on completing their rite of passage
    Certificates of achievement
  • Preparing dinner for a big group on an open fire is a challenge. Here the students have prepared all the ingredients and are start to cook in the big pots.
    Cooking & serving others
  • Roaring flame in the dark
    Camp fire camaraderie
  • Sausages sizzling in a pan and skewered veg cooking over the open fire
    Cooking in teams
  • Really Wild Giving - composite photo of a cooking fire and girl in a bright red woolly hat exploring
    Wild adventures
  • Really Wild Home Education Gathering Group Photo. Lots of children from all walks of life coming together at the Wild Festival to share their skills and have great fun in the sun.
    Joint projects
  • Team challenges
  • Excitement
  • Personal Development Workshops
  • Freedom
  • Celebration

Survival Academy

  • Steve supporting our younger students to safely build and manage their fires.
    Fire craft
  • Navigating using sticks and shadows! The group is finding out how from one of the instructors.
    Wild Navigation
  • Steve telling one of his tall tales around the campfire; the group is gently illuminated by the light of the fire.
    Night skills
  • Sarah is getting comfortable in her snow shelter. It's thickly packed snow dug out to form a snug warm shelter to spend the night.
    Winter shelter
  • Lunchtime around a small fire to keep warm in the Arctic
    Year round
  • Practising building a lean-to a-frame shelter in the woods. Using natural resources to make a shelter takes time and a group effort.
    Wild shelter

Expeditions

  • Arctic Winter
  • Cooking a dinner on an open fire on the beach in Borneo
    Borneo
  • Andes
  • Amazon
  • Scotland
  • Cornwall