About us

Natasha Godfrey - Director of nature play learning

I am an experienced primary school teacher and mum. Taking my passion for providing children with the best chance to learn in a classroom to providing children and their families the best chance to learn and grow together has felt very natural. I love how being in nature - amongst the trees, listening to the birds, smelling the blossoms or the eucalypt and earth after the rain - is an immediately healing experience. It has the power to calm, promote mental health and clears the mind for other tasks.

I watch my girls in nature come into their true selves, find confidence in navigating tricky terrain and consider risky situations before taking action or seeking help. Children learn and develop authentically when given the space to do so, and I am so glad that I get to offer the experience of nature to other children, and to their families here at Nature Play Learning.

You’ll find me facilitating playgroups and teaching at bush kinder, or answering your emails on the side!

 

Caleigh Cheang

Bush Kinder Teacher

I am a childcare worker, in training to be a play therapist, with a passion for nature, music and providing opportunities for children to learn through play.

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Jacqui Laird

Bush Kinder and Bush Playgroup Facilitator.

There is nothing more inspiring than watching a child discover the many wonders of nature. To sink deep into the elements and explore. My role is to foster, guide and empower their experience and to discover alongside them.

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Zara Black

Bush School and Kinder Teacher and Playgroup Facilitator.

I am a trained Secondary Art Teacher with a strong interest in early development and how it shapes us. Many of my happiest memories are bedded in nature. I believe it is important to provide opportunity for children to play, share, discover, fail and achieve within the natural world so that they can understand their place within it.

 
 

Our world is in the hands of our children. Our aim is to develop learners who care for their environment, who work and play sustainably and who understand how we are all connected by nature. If you would like to find out more about any of our programs or have a chat about nature play, we’d love to hear from you!

Nature Play Learning acknowledges the Wurundjeri people as the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which we play each week. We pay our respects to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation and their ancestors and elders - past, present, and emerging. We recognise that this land always was and always will be indigenous land and we will continue to support, protect and promote indigenous rights and freedoms.